How to properly format a SOAP message envelope using a custom SOAPHandler

Question

I have a class that implements the SOAPHandler interface. The handleMessage is defined as:

public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext context) {

  SOAPMessage msg = context.getMessage();
  SOAPPart part = msg.getSOAPPart();
  SOAPEnvelope envelope = part.getEnvelope();

  // add namespaces
  SOAPElement envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
  envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-      

  // add the header with additional elements
  Name qname = envelope.createName("Security", "sse", "http://example.com/security.xsd");
  element = envelope.addHeader().addChildElement(qname);

  qname = envelope.createName("mustUnderstand");
  element.addAttribute(qname, "1");

  qname = envelope.createName("UsernameToken", "sse", "http://example.com/user.xsd");
  element = envelope.getHeader().addHeaderElement(qname);
  element.addTextNode("user1");

  qname = envelope.createName("Password");
  element = envelope.getHeader().addHeaderElement(qname);
  element.addTextNode("1234");

}

} catch (Exception e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}
  return true;
}

This generates the following message:

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
  <S:Header>
    <sse:Security xmlns:sse="http://example.com/security.xsd" mustUnderstand="1"/>
    <sse:UsernameToken xmlns:sse="http://example.com/user.xsd"&gt;user1&lt;/sse:UsernameToken&gt;
  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    ....The rest of the transaction
  </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

The problem is I need to generate a message with the following format:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
   <soapenv:Header>
      <sse:Security soapenv:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:sse="http://example.com/security.xsd"&gt;
         <sse:UsernameToken wsu:Id="UsernameToken-9993341" xmlns:wsu="http://example.com/user.xsd"&gt;
            <sse:Username>user1</sse:Username>
            <sse:Password Type="http://example.com/password#PasswordText"&gt;1234&lt;/sse:Password&gt;
         </sse:UsernameToken>
      </sse:Security>
   </soapenv:Header>
  <soapenv:Body>
    ....The rest of the transaction
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The "mustUnderstand" attribute doesn't have the soapenv prefix, the sse:Security tag is closed right away instead of having the other tags as children, and the UserName isn't properly formatted as

<sse:Username>user1</sse:Username>

. How can I format the message properly using the SOAPElement methods? The biggest thing I need to know is how to properly next the tags inside of the Security tag and how to have the username/password tags properly formatted.

I've tried different combinations of the addHeaderElement and addChildElement methods, but I can't get it formatted properly and the javadocs don't give enough detail about what they will generate.

Answer 1

There's enough problems in this code that I'm thinking it's a troll, but heres a start:

The line :

element = envelope.addHeader().addChildElement(qname);

should read:

SOAPHeaderElement secHdrElement = envelope.addHeader().addHeaderElement(qname);

next, instead of:

qname = envelope.createName("mustUnderstand");
element.addAttribute(qname, "1");

probably:

secHdrElement.setMustUnderstand(true);

and

qname = envelope.createName("UsernameToken", "sse", "http://example.com/user.xsd");
element = envelope.getHeader().addHeaderElement(qname);
element.addTextNode("user1");

should be something like:

qname = envelope.createName("UsernameToken", "sse", "http://example.com/user.xsd");
element = secHdrElement.addHeaderElement(
          envelope.createName("UsernameToken", "sse", "http://example.com/user.xsd"));

and so on...