How to get Soap Header at server side with Spring WS Client

Question

I am new to Web Service development. I am developing a web service using Spring WS. I need to add soap header in request so below is my code to add header in request at client side.

 getWebServiceTemplate()
                .sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(source, 
                    new WebServiceMessageCallback(){
                        public void doWithMessage(WebServiceMessage message) throws IOException, TransformerException{
                            SaajSoapMessage soapMessage = (SaajSoapMessage) message;
                            SoapHeaderElement messageId =  soapMessage.getSoapHeader().addHeaderElement(new QName("http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing", "messageId", "wsa"));
                            messageId.setText("Test Security Token");
                        }
                },result);

How do I get this header out of the request in my server side class?

I have used the Eclipse Axis plugin to generate my wsdl to class skeleton. I am using Spring 2.

Take a look at one of my previous answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8562982/956884 — evandongen, Apr 18 '13 at 13:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 24 '13 at 14:24

I got the solution. Code that I have written in method of BindingImpl of server skeleton :

MessageContext messageContext = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();

SOAPHeader header = (SOAPHeader) 
    messageContext.getCurrentMessage().getSOAPHeader();

header.getChildElements();

It will give you list of SOAPHeaderElement. And from that you can take element name and its value.

Thank you all of you... :)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '13 at 13:32

Hmm, the question is, which version of Spring-WS are you using? The header you want to add belongs to the WS-Addressing specification, right? I know that Spring-WS also supports WS-Addressing directly. It's better to use Spring's support as much as possible and not to interfere with the message headers (although this is also possible).

How to get Soap Header at server side with Spring WS Client

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