Getting Raw XML From SOAPMessage in Java

Question

I've set up a SOAP WebServiceProvider in JAX-WS, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the raw XML from a SOAPMessage (or any Node) object. Here's a sample of the code I've got right now, and where I'm trying to grab the XML:

@WebServiceProvider(wsdlLocation="SoapService.wsdl")
@ServiceMode(value=Service.Mode.MESSAGE)
public class SoapProvider implements Provider<SOAPMessage>
{
    public SOAPMessage invoke(SOAPMessage msg)
    {
        // How do I get the raw XML here?
    }
}

Is there a simple way to get the XML of the original request? If there's a way to get the raw XML by setting up a different type of Provider (such as Source), I'd be willing to do that, too.

Answer 1

this works

 final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

try {
    TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer().transform(
        new DOMSource(soapResponse.getSOAPPart()),
        new StreamResult(sw));
} catch (TransformerException e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
System.out.println(sw.toString());
return sw.toString();

Answer 2

if you have the client code then you just need to add the following two lines to get the XML request/response. Here _call is org.apache.axis.client.Call

String request = _call.getMessageContext().getRequestMessage().getSOAPPartAsString();
String response = _call.getMessageContext().getResponseMessage().getSOAPPartAsString();