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

It is pretty old thread but recently i had a similar issue. I was calling a downstream soap service, from a rest service, and I needed to return the xml response coming from the downstream server as is.

So, i ended up adding a SoapMessageContext handler to get the XML response. Then i injected the response xml into servlet context as an attribute.

public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext context) {

            // Get xml response
            try {

                ServletContext servletContext =
                        ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()).getRequest().getServletContext();

                SOAPMessage msg = context.getMessage();

                ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                msg.writeTo(out);
                String strMsg = new String(out.toByteArray());

                servletContext.setAttribute("responseXml", strMsg);

                return true;
            } catch (Exception e) {
                return false;
            }
        }

Then I have retrieved the xml response string in the service layer.

ServletContext servletContext =
                ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()).getRequest().getServletContext();

        String msg = (String) servletContext.getAttribute("responseXml");

Didn't have chance to test it yet but this approach must be thread safe since it is using the servlet context.