How to read SOAP Header information from request and add it to response in spring web services

Question

I am working on spring web services. I need to add some custom elements in the request and response message.which should look like this:

Answer 1

This is probably only half the answer you need but I think you can read the soapheaders by getting the (Saaj)SoapMessage from the messagecontext, like this:

@PayloadRoot(
    localPart = "GetHiredCandidatesRequest", 
    namespace = DEFAULT_NAMESPACE
)
@ResponsePayload
public GetHiredCandidatesResponse getKandidaat (
    @RequestPayload GetHiredCandidatesRequest getCandidate,
    MessageContext messageContext) {

    SaajSoapMessage request = (SaajSoapMessage) messageContext.getRequest();
    SoapHeader header = request.getSoapHeader();

    GetHiredCandidatesResponse response = objectFactory.createGetHiredCandidatesResponse();
    response.getCandidate().addAll(
        candidateService.getHiredCandidates(
            getCandidate.getFrom(), 
            getCandidate.getTo()
        )
    );

    return response;
}

Since version 2 you can automatically 'add' some objects to your method's signature, like I add the MessageContext here. I have used this to get the attachments from a soap message for instance. You can probably use other subclasses of AbstractSoapMessage as well since the the getSoapHeder method is in that class.

[edit] BTW: Perhaps you can use Interceptors as well since the request / response is provided there. Take a look at the org.springframework.ws.soap.server.endpoint.interceptor package for some default examples. [/edit]