Spring-WS client not setting SOAPAction header

Question

I\'m sending a SOAP request and the server is complaining that the SOAPAction header is empty. I think I\'m setting it right, but obviously I\'m not. Wireshark shows it\'s

Answer 1

Another walk-around is to add an interceptor and set the soapAction within the handleRequest() method that inbound receives the MessageContext from which the SoapMessage can be derived;

after that you can easily set the soapAction invoking the setSoapAction() method.

here is the code of the interceptor class:

public class SecurityInterceptor implements ClientInterceptor {

    @Override
    public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext messageContext) throws WebServiceClientException {

        SoapMessage soapMessage = (SoapMessage) messageContext.getRequest();
        soapMessage.setSoapAction("mySoapAction");    

        return true;
    }

    //TODO:: other methods and constructor..
}

and of course add the interceptor to the WebTemplate:

WebServiceTemplate webServiceTemplate = new WebServiceTemplate(marshaller);
ClientInterceptor[] interceptors = new ClientInterceptor[]{new SecurityInterceptor(parameters)};
webServiceTemplate.setInterceptors();
webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(uriWebService, request)