Getting Raw XML From SOAPMessage in Java

Question

I\'ve set up a SOAP WebServiceProvider in JAX-WS, but I\'m having trouble figuring out how to get the raw XML from a SOAPMessage (or any Node) object. Here\'s a sample of t

Answer 1

If you have a SOAPMessage or SOAPMessageContext, you can use a Transformer, by converting it to a Source via DOMSource:

            final SOAPMessage message = messageContext.getMessage();
            final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

            try {
                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer().transform(
                    new DOMSource(message.getSOAPPart()),
                    new StreamResult(sw));
            } catch (TransformerException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }

            // Now you have the XML as a String:
            System.out.println(sw.toString());

This will take the encoding into account, so your "special characters" won't get mangled.