Java SOAP - Need help on Body and ChildElement manipulation

Answer 1

This is how I would do it.

MessageFactory factory = MessageFactory.newInstance();           
SOAPMessage message = factory.createMessage();
SOAPBody body = message.getSOAPBody();
SOAPElement checkAccEl =  body
  .addChildElement("checkAccount", "to", "http://foo");

SOAPElement idEl = checkAccEl
  .addChildElement("id", "to", "http://foo");
idEl.addTextNode("test");

SOAPElement passwordEl = checkAccEl
  .addChildElement("password", "to", "http://foo");
passwordEl.addTextNode("test");

// print out the SOAP Message. How easy is this?!
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
message.writeTo(out);
System.out.println(out.toString());

The first time you use the namespace 'to=http://foo' it is automatically declared on the element - checkAccount in this case. When you use the same namespace again, the XML won't need to declare it again, but will use the prefix.

The output looks like:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;
    <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <to:checkAccount xmlns:to="http://foo"&gt;
            <to:id>test</to:id>
            <to:password>test</to:password>
         </to:checkAccount>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Which is what you want I think