In a CXF SOAP webservice, I'm using the following annotations to disable the xsd validation:
@EndpointProperties({
@EndpointProperty(key = "set-jaxb-validation-event-handler", value = "false")
})
I would like the validation to controlled at runtime (enable/disable it, based on the value of a setting retrieved from a database). My question is: is it possible to disable/enable this handler at runtime? Maybe by writing a custom event handler and not using this property at all?
Thanks.
Edit: an option would be not to disable the validation with set-jaxb-validation-handler
, and rather subclass ValidationEventHandler. As explained here, I would then check the database setting in handleEvent
and return according to its value.
But there are still a few downsides with this approach: first, this webservice is configured with annotations, and I can't seem to find a way to apply a ValidationEventHandler
with annotations (same question as: How to set custom ValidationEventHandler on JAXB unmarshaller when using annotations).
Secondly, it means that the validation will be performed even if I don't need it; I would then lose any performance benefit.
It doesn't in fact exactly suit my needs, so I'm still open to any suggestion.
Yes, it is possible.
MyService service = new MyService();
MyServiceInterface port = service.getMyServicePort();
BindingProvider bindingProvider = (BindingProvider) port;
bindingProvider.getRequestContext().put(
"set-jaxb-validation-event-handler", Boolean.FALSE);
I finally found a working solution.
As I'm running CXF on JBoss EAP 6.0, I added the following configuration to the webservices subsytem in standalone.xml:
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:webservices:1.2">
<!-- ... -->
<endpoint-config name="myconfig">
<property name="set-jaxb-validation-event-handler" value="false"/>
</endpoint-config>
<!-- ...-->
</subsystem>
And the following annotation to the SEI implementation:
@org.jboss.ws.api.annotation.EndpointConfig(configName = "myconfig")
This is the related Maven dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.ws</groupId>
<artifactId>jbossws-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1.Final</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
We still need a restart of the server if we want to change the property value, but it's a lesser evil.
For the people trying to configure that on the bus level, the following worked for me:
<cxf:bus id="soapClientCxfBus" bus="soapClientCxfBus" >
<cxf:properties>
<entry key="set-jaxb-validation-event-handler" value="false" />
</cxf:properties>
</cxf:bus>