How to set the HTTP STATUS code to other than 500 in CXF Out Fault Interceptor?

I am writing a CXF OutFaultInterceptor to throw a custom SOAP Fault message while implementing a SOAP Web service in Mule ESB version 3.8.1

The problem is for every SOAP Fault, I am getting HTTP STATUS CODE 500 from server. I will like to change the STATUS CODE based on the error type like 400 for bad request.

How to do this?

I have tried setting the MESSAGE.RESPONSE_CODE to 400 and the PHASE to PRE_STREAM and MARSHAL.

But it does not work. Below is the sample code:

public class SampleCxfFaultInterceptor extends AbstractSoapInterceptor {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EservicesCxfFaultInterceptor.class);

    public SampleCxfFaultInterceptor() {
        super(Phase.PRE_STREAM);
    }

    public void handleMessage(SoapMessage soapMessage) throws Fault {

        Fault fault = (Fault) soapMessage.getContent(Exception.class);

        if (fault.getCause() instanceof org.mule.api.transformer.TransformerMessagingException) {

                LOGGER.error("INTERNAL ERROR OCCURED WHILE PROCESSING REQUEST);
                soapMessage.remove(Message.RESPONSE_CODE);
                soapMessage.put(Message.RESPONSE_CODE,new Integer(400));
                Element detail = fault.getOrCreateDetail();
                Element errorDetail = detail.getOwnerDocument().createElement("errorDetail");
                Element errorCode = errorDetail.getOwnerDocument().createElement("errorCode");
                Element message = errorDetail.getOwnerDocument().createElement("message");
                errorCode.setTextContent("500");
                message.setTextContent("INTERNAL_ERROR");
                errorDetail.appendChild(errorCode);
                errorDetail.appendChild(message);
                detail.appendChild(errorDetail);                

        }

    }

    private Throwable getOriginalCause(Throwable t) {
        if (t instanceof ComponentException && t.getCause() != null) {
            return t.getCause();
        } else {
            return t;
        }
    }

Expected result would be to get HTTP STATUS Code as 400.

But I am getting something like this : HTTP/1.1 500

Make sure you override the handleFault method as well and set the status on the HttpServletResponse object directly:

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapMessage;
import org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.AbstractSoapInterceptor;
import org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault;
import org.apache.cxf.message.Exchange;
import org.apache.cxf.message.Message;
import org.apache.cxf.message.MessageUtils;
import org.apache.cxf.phase.Phase;
import org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination;

public class SampleCxfFaultInterceptor extends AbstractSoapInterceptor
{
    ...

    public SampleCxfFaultInterceptor() {
        super(Phase.PRE_STREAM);
    }

    private void setHttpResponseStatus(final SoapMessage message, final int status)
    {
        // skip if inbound
        if (!MessageUtils.isOutbound(message))
        {
            return;
        }

        // outbound
        final Exchange exchange = message.getExchange();
        final Message outMessage = Optional.ofNullable(exchange.getOutMessage()).orElse(exchange.getOutFaultMessage());
        final HttpServletResponse httpResponse = (HttpServletResponse) outMessage.get(AbstractHTTPDestination.HTTP_RESPONSE);
        if (httpResponse != null)
        {
            httpResponse.setStatus(status);
        }
        /*
         * else this is likely SOAP over some non-HTTP transport protocol
         */
        /*
         * Prevent any further processing by other interceptors
         */
        message.getInterceptorChain().abort();

    }

    @Override
    public void handleMessage(final SoapMessage message) throws Fault
    {
        // example setting HTTP status to 400
        setHttpResponseStatus(message, 400);
    }

    @Override
    public void handleFault(final SoapMessage message)
    {
        // example setting HTTP status to 400
        setHttpResponseStatus(message, 400);
    }
}

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