migrate axis soap webservice to spring ws - RequestPayload object values coming as null in endpoint method

Question

Working with an old wsdl file generated with AXIS to make it work with spring ws. After doing some tweaks and all, i could generate the java sources with the old wsdl.

Now i am trying to make a request from soap UI , But request values are shown as null in endpoint method. Request is coming in backend properly but not values.

WSDL file

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:onl="http://online.mysite.com">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <onl:getSummary soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
         <in0 xsi:type="onl:SummaryObject">
            <docid xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">doc123</docid>
            <amount xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</amount>
            <duenew xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</duenew>
            <reference xsi:type="xsd:long">?</reference>
            <sortBy xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</sortBy>
            <startDate xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</startDate>
         </in0>
      </onl:getSummary>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Soap Request:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:onl="http://online.mysite.com">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <onl:getSummary soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
         <in0 xsi:type="onl:SummaryObject">
            <docid xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">doc123</docid>
            <amount xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</amount>
            <duenew xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</duenew>
            <reference xsi:type="xsd:long">121212121</reference>
            <sortBy xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</sortBy>
            <startDate xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</startDate>
            <visibility xsi:type="soapenc:string" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">?</visibility>
         </in0>
      </onl:getSummary>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Endpoint Method:

@PayloadRoot(namespace = NAMESPACE_URI, localPart ="getSummary")
    @ResponsePayload
    public JAXBElement<EObjects> getSummary(@RequestPayload SummaryObject summaryObject) {

            System.out.println("Am done with this"+summaryObject.getDocId());
        ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
        EObjects objects = factory.createEObjects();
        QName qname = new QName("http://online.mysite.com", "eobjects");
        return new JAXBElement(qname, EObjects.class, objects);

    }

Answer 1

WSDL generated in axis 1 is no longer been supported by spring ws or CXF. So that generated java classes from WSDL wont have required information that is needed for unmarshelling of request by JAXB in spring. Thus request object will come as null.

I have done a work around which has 2 things to do

1. Add xml root element annotation on top of the request object class generated from WSDL.

@XmlRootElement(name="getSomething",namespace = "http://yoursite.com")

2. unmarshell the request object manually as shown below:

code

SoapMessage message = (SoapMessage) messageContext.getRequest();
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            message.writeTo(out);
            String strMsg = new String(out.toByteArray());  DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document d = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(strMsg)));
 Node getrequestObject = d.getElementsByTagName("yourtag").item(0);

JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(MyRequestObject.class);
    Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
    JAXBElement<SummaryObject> je = unmarshaller.unmarshal(new
DOMSource(getrequestObject), MyRequestObject.class);