Read custom header value from the response

Question

When I send request from the Soap UI under raw response tab I see the following result(find attachment). Now in AOP controller I want to read this header value which is marked as red. How it is possible? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In my application to send soap requests I have WebServiceTemplate. I applied custom interceptor WebServiceInterceptor (which implements ClientInterceptor interface) on this web service template. In overridden afterCompletion method, which injects MessageContext, I was able to take this property from the SaajMessageHeader.

Here is what code looks like:

@Configuration
public class MyWebServiceConfig {
    
    @Bean(name = "myWSClient")
    public WebServiceTemplate myWSClient() throws Exception {
        WebServiceTemplate template = new WebServiceTemplate();
        
        ...

        WebServiceInterceptor[] interceptors = { new WebServiceInterceptor() };
        template.setInterceptors(interceptors);
        return template;
    }
    
    
    private static class WebServiceInterceptor implements ClientInterceptor {

        @Override
        public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext messageContext) throws WebServiceClientException {
            ...
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean handleResponse(MessageContext messageContext) throws WebServiceClientException {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean handleFault(MessageContext messageContext) throws WebServiceClientException {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void afterCompletion(MessageContext messageContext, Exception ex) throws WebServiceClientException {
            try {
                SaajSoapMessage message = (SaajSoapMessage) messageContext.getResponse();

                String []traceId = message.getSaajMessage().getMimeHeaders().getHeader("ITRACING_TRACE_ID");
                    if(traceId != null && traceId.length > 0){
                        process.setTraceId(traceId[0]);
                    }
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }

        }
    
}