Adding payload to SOAP body

[Matthew MacMillan]

HI,

Am trying to add a hard coded payload to a SOAP message - but it's escaping the < and > characters in the payload to & lt ; and & gt ;

String payload = "<GetMyWebMethod xmlns='http://www.test.com/testGateway/' />";

SOAP envelope before adding child payload

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soapenv:Body>soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

from this code: -

		SOAPFactory soap12Factory = OMAbstractFactory.getSOAP12Factory();
		SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soap12Factory.getDefaultEnvelope();
		
		OMFactory fac = soapEnvelope.getOMFactory();
		OMNamespace omNs = fac.createOMNamespace(endpointUrl, "ns");

Add the payload to the SOAP envelope

OMNode omn = fac.createOMText(webmethod);
soapEnvelope.getBody().addChild(omn);

gives this SOAP message

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soapenv:Body>& lt ;GetMyWebMethod xmlns='http://www.test.com/testGateway/' /& gt ;</soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

The SOAP message I want is: -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soapenv:Body><GetMyWebMethod xmlns='http://www.test.com/testGateway/' />;</soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

Any idea how to solve?

thanks
Matthew

[Alex Hurtt]

Try using one of the fac.createOMElement(...) methods on your 'fac' object instead of createOMText(...). It looks like they've sort of reinvented DOM parsing with this Axiom API to some extent.

If you spend a few minutes and study the API documentation for your OMNode class here: http://ws.apache.org/axiom/apidocs/index.html?overview-summary.html

You will see there are constants defined in the interface that indicate what type of Node the implementing instance will be. These are commonly defined XML node types and each will be treated differently according to XML specs. If you are creating a text node and trying to add that to the body of your envelope, the Axiom framework will rightly treat it as plain text containing characters that must be escaped according to XML specification.