How to send a SOAP request using WebServiceTemplate?

Question

I am trying to send a request to a SOAP webservice. I read this tutorial and prepared the following code. However, I am going to send different requests to multiple SOAP web

Answer 1

I tried many options and finally below one worked for me if you have to send soap header with authentication(Provided authentication object created by wsimport) and also need to set soapaction.

public Response callWebService(String url, Object request)

{
    Response res = null;
    log.info("The request object is " + request.toString());

    try {
        
        

        res = (Response) getWebServiceTemplate().marshalSendAndReceive(url, request,new WebServiceMessageCallback() {
                 @Override
                  public void doWithMessage(WebServiceMessage message) {
                    try {
                      // get the header from the SOAP message
                      SoapHeader soapHeader = ((SoapMessage) message).getSoapHeader();

                      // create the header element
                      ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
                      Authentication auth =
                          factory.createAuthentication();
                      auth.setUser("****");
                      auth.setPassword("******");
                     ((SoapMessage) message).setSoapAction(
                                "soapAction");

                      JAXBElement headers =
                          factory.createAuthentication(auth);

                      // create a marshaller
                      JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Authentication.class);
                      Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();

                      // marshal the headers into the specified result
                      marshaller.marshal(headers, soapHeader.getResult());
                      
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                      log.error("error during marshalling of the SOAP headers", e);
                    }
                  }
                });

        
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return res;

}