SOAP

Since Camel 2.3

SOAP is a Data Format which uses JAXB2 and JAX-WS annotations to marshal and unmarshal SOAP payloads. It provides the basic features of Apache CXF without the need for the CXF Stack.

Namespace prefix mapping

See JAXB for details how you can control namespace prefix mappings when marshalling using SOAP data format.

SOAP Options

The SOAP dataformat supports 6 options, which are listed below.

Name Default Java Type Description

contextPath (common)

String

Required Package name where your JAXB classes are located.

encoding (common)

String

To overrule and use a specific encoding.

elementNameStrategyRef (advanced)

String

Refers to an element strategy to lookup from the registry. An element name strategy is used for two purposes. The first is to find a xml element name for a given object and soap action when marshaling the object into a SOAP message. The second is to find an Exception class for a given soap fault name. The following three element strategy class name is provided out of the box. QNameStrategy - Uses a fixed qName that is configured on instantiation. Exception lookup is not supported TypeNameStrategy - Uses the name and namespace from the XMLType annotation of the given type. If no namespace is set then package-info is used. Exception lookup is not supported ServiceInterfaceStrategy - Uses information from a webservice interface to determine the type name and to find the exception class for a SOAP fault All three classes is located in the package name org.apache.camel.dataformat.soap.name If you have generated the web service stub code with cxf-codegen or a similar tool then you probably will want to use the ServiceInterfaceStrategy. In the case you have no annotated service interface you should use QNameStrategy or TypeNameStrategy.

version (common)

1.1

Enum

SOAP version should either be 1.1 or 1.2. Is by default 1.1.

Enum values:

  • 1.1

  • 1.2

namespacePrefixRef (advanced)

String

When marshalling using JAXB or SOAP then the JAXB implementation will automatic assign namespace prefixes, such as ns2, ns3, ns4 etc. To control this mapping, Camel allows you to refer to a map which contains the desired mapping.

schema (common)

String

To validate against an existing schema. Your can use the prefix classpath:, file: or http: to specify how the resource should be resolved. You can separate multiple schema files by using the ',' character.

ElementNameStrategy

An element name strategy is used for two purposes. The first is to find an XML element name for a given object and soap action when marshaling the object into a SOAP message. The second is to find an Exception class for a given soap fault name.

Strategy Usage

QNameStrategy

Uses a fixed qName that is configured on instantiation. Exception lookup is not supported

TypeNameStrategy

Uses the name and namespace from the @XMLType annotation of the given type. If no namespace is set, then package-info is used. Exception lookup is not supported

ServiceInterfaceStrategy

Uses information from a webservice interface to determine the type name and to find the exception class for a SOAP fault

If you have generated the web service stub code with cxf-codegen or a similar tool, then you probably will want to use the ServiceInterfaceStrategy. In the case you have no annotated service interface you should use QNameStrategy or TypeNameStrategy.

Using the Java DSL

The following example uses a named DataFormat of soap which is configured with the package com.example.customerservice to initialize the JAXBContext. The second parameter is the ElementNameStrategy. The route is able to marshal normal objects as well as exceptions.

The below just sends a SOAP Envelope to a queue. A web service provider would actually need to be listening to the queue for a SOAP call to actually occur, in which case it would be a one way SOAP request. If you need to request a reply, then you should look at the next example.

 
SoapDataFormat soap = new SoapDataFormat("com.example.customerservice", new ServiceInterfaceStrategy(CustomerService.class));
from("direct:start")
  .marshal(soap)
  .to("jms:myQueue");

See also

As the SOAP dataformat inherits from the JAXB dataformat, most settings apply here as well

Using SOAP 1.2

Since Camel 2.11

SoapDataFormat soap = new SoapDataFormat("com.example.customerservice", new ServiceInterfaceStrategy(CustomerService.class));
soap.setVersion("1.2");
from("direct:start")
  .marshal(soap)
  .to("jms:myQueue");

When using XML DSL, there is a version attribute you can set on the <soap> element.

    <!-- Defining a ServiceInterfaceStrategy for retrieving the element name when marshalling -->
    <bean id="myNameStrategy" class="org.apache.camel.dataformat.soap.name.ServiceInterfaceStrategy">
        <constructor-arg value="com.example.customerservice.CustomerService"/>
    <constructor-arg value="true"/>
    </bean>

And in the Camel route

<route>
  <from uri="direct:start"/>
  <marshal>
    <soap contentPath="com.example.customerservice" version="1.2" elementNameStrategyRef="myNameStrategy"/>
  </marshal>
  <to uri="jms:myQueue"/>
</route>

Multi-part Messages

Since Camel 2.8.1

Multipart SOAP messages are supported by the ServiceInterfaceStrategy. The ServiceInterfaceStrategy must be initialized with a service interface definition that is annotated in accordance with JAX-WS 2.2 and meets the requirements of the Document Bare style. The target method must meet the following criteria, as per the JAX-WS specification: 1. it must have at most one in or in/out non-header parameter, 2. if it has a return type other than void it must have no in/out or out non-header parameters, 3. if it has a return type of void it must have at most one in/out or out non-header parameter.

The ServiceInterfaceStrategy should be initialized with a boolean parameter that indicates whether the mapping strategy applies to the request parameters or response parameters.

ServiceInterfaceStrategy strat =  new ServiceInterfaceStrategy(com.example.customerservice.multipart.MultiPartCustomerService.class, true);
SoapDataFormat soapDataFormat = new SoapDataFormat("com.example.customerservice.multipart", strat);

Holder Object mapping

JAX-WS specifies the use of a type-parameterized javax.xml.ws.Holder object for In/Out and Out parameters. You may use an instance of the parameterized-type directly. The camel-soap DataFormat marshals Holder values in accordance with the JAXB mapping for the class of the Holder's value. No mapping is provided for Holder objects in an unmarshalled response.

Examples

Webservice client

The following route supports marshalling the request and unmarshalling a response or fault.

String WS_URI = "cxf://http://myserver/customerservice?serviceClass=com.example.customerservice&dataFormat=RAW";
SoapDataFormat soapDF = new SoapDataFormat("com.example.customerservice", new ServiceInterfaceStrategy(CustomerService.class));
from("direct:customerServiceClient")
  .onException(Exception.class)
    .handled(true)
    .unmarshal(soapDF)
  .end()
  .marshal(soapDF)
  .to(WS_URI)
  .unmarshal(soapDF);

The below snippet creates a proxy for the service interface and makes a SOAP call to the above route.

import org.apache.camel.Endpoint;
import org.apache.camel.component.bean.ProxyHelper;
...

Endpoint startEndpoint = context.getEndpoint("direct:customerServiceClient");
ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
// CustomerService below is the service endpoint interface, *not* the javax.xml.ws.Service subclass
CustomerService proxy = ProxyHelper.createProxy(startEndpoint, classLoader, CustomerService.class);
GetCustomersByNameResponse response = proxy.getCustomersByName(new GetCustomersByName());

Webservice Server

Using the following route sets up a webservice server that consumes from the jms queue customerServiceQueue and processes requests using the class CustomerServiceImpl. The customerServiceImpl should implement the interface CustomerService. Instead of directly instantiating the server class it could be defined in a spring context as a regular bean.

SoapDataFormat soapDF = new SoapDataFormat("com.example.customerservice", new ServiceInterfaceStrategy(CustomerService.class));
CustomerService serverBean = new CustomerServiceImpl();
from("jms://queue:customerServiceQueue")
  .onException(Exception.class)
    .handled(true)
    .marshal(soapDF)
  .end()
  .unmarshal(soapDF)
  .bean(serverBean)
  .marshal(soapDF);

Dependencies

To use the SOAP dataformat in your Camel routes, you need to add the following dependency to your pom.xml.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-soap</artifactId>
  <version>x.y.z</version>
</dependency>

Unresolved include directive in modules/dataformats/pages/soap-dataformat.adoc - include::spring-boot:partial$starter.adoc[]