Custom Soap Header (org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement)

[Caden Whitaker]

I used eclipse's built in wsdl-to-code generator to build out my java classes. Unfortunatley it doesn't look like it added the custom soap header.

This is the header:

<SOAP:Header>
	<AuthenticationHeader xmlns=‘http://www.domain.com/data/‘>
	   <ServiceId>Long Integer</ServiceId>    
	   <Password>String</Password>
	</AuthenticationHeader>
</SOAP:Header>

This is the code I put in:

org.apache.axis.client.Call _call = super._createCall();

SOAPHeaderElement header = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://www.domain.com/data/", "AuthenticationHeader");
SOAPElement node = header.addChildElement("ServiceId");
node.addTextNode("12345");

SOAPElement node2 = header.addChildElement("Password");
node2.addTextNode("SuperSecretPassword");

_call.addHeader(header);

On a high level, does that look correct? I wasn't sure about the SOAPHeaderElement constructor as I'm not sure what to put in as the namespace

[Peer Reynders]

Caden Whitaker wrote:I wasn't sure about the SOAPHeaderElement constructor as I'm not sure what to put in as the namespace

That is the correct namespace according to your example but as far as I can tell you will still need a
header.addNamespaceDeclaration("", "http://www.domain.com/data/");
to declare the default namespace for the header (and its child elements).

You can use Apache TCPMon (Tutorial) or java.net tcpmon to capture/view the HTTP/SOAP request/response pairs and determine if you are achieving the desired effect.

Ronald Bourret's XML Namespaces FAQ
James Clark: XML Namespaces