Is there an easy way (aka: not using a proxy) to get access to the raw request/response XML for a webservice published with JAX-WS reference implementation (the one included in JDK 1.5 and better) ? Being able to do that via code is what I need to do. Just having it logged to a file by clever logging configurations would be nice but enough.
I know that other more complex and complete frameworks exist that might do that, but I would like to keep it as simple as possible and axis, cxf, etc all add considerable overhead that I want to avoid.
Thanks!
Here is the solution in raw code (put together thanks to stjohnroe and Shamik):
Endpoint ep = Endpoint.create(new WebserviceImpl());
List<Handler> handlerChain = ep.getBinding().getHandlerChain();
handlerChain.add(new SOAPLoggingHandler());
ep.getBinding().setHandlerChain(handlerChain);
ep.publish(publishURL);
Where SOAPLoggingHandler is (ripped from linked examples):
package com.myfirm.util.logging.ws;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPHandler;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.soap.SOAPMessageContext;
/*
* This simple SOAPHandler will output the contents of incoming
* and outgoing messages.
*/
public class SOAPLoggingHandler implements SOAPHandler<SOAPMessageContext> {
// change this to redirect output if desired
private static PrintStream out = System.out;
public Set<QName> getHeaders() {
return null;
}
public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
logToSystemOut(smc);
return true;
}
public boolean handleFault(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
logToSystemOut(smc);
return true;
}
// nothing to clean up
public void close(MessageContext messageContext) {
}
/*
* Check the MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY in the context
* to see if this is an outgoing or incoming message.
* Write a brief message to the print stream and
* output the message. The writeTo() method can throw
* SOAPException or IOException
*/
private void logToSystemOut(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
Boolean outboundProperty = (Boolean)
smc.get (MessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY);
if (outboundProperty.booleanValue()) {
out.println("\nOutbound message:");
} else {
out.println("\nInbound message:");
}
SOAPMessage message = smc.getMessage();
try {
message.writeTo(out);
out.println(""); // just to add a newline
} catch (Exception e) {
out.println("Exception in handler: " + e);
}
}
}