Question

QUESTION: how can I use a different encoding (charset and transfer) with axis?

Here is my client:

public Object[] invoke(String xmlRepresentation)             throws CustomApplicationException {              Object[] responseWS = null;             RPCServiceClient serviceClient = new RPCServiceClient();                         Options options = serviceClient.getOptions();                        options.setAction('WBSREFT');             options.setTo(new EndpointReference('http://localhost:6132'));             QName qName = new QName(XML_SCHEMA, operation);              Object[] args = new Object[] { 'blablabla' };             responseWS = serviceClient.invokeBlocking(qName, args, returnTypes);               String responseAsString = (String) responseWS[0];             return responseWS;      } 

Here is the SOAPEnvelope being generated (captured using TCP/IP Monitor):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> <soapenv:Body> <WBSREFT xmlns='http://tempuri.org/LICPOCSampleService'> <arg0 xmlns=''>blablabla</arg0> </WBSREFT> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> 

WHY Axis2 generated this stupid encoding (http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope)???

Using Apache TCPMon I’ve captured this request:

POST / HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: 'WBSREFT' User-Agent: Axis2 Host: 172.17.192.113:6133 Transfer-Encoding: chunked  102 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>       <soapenv:Body>          <WBSREFT xmlns='http://tempuri.org/LICPOCSampleService'>             <arg0 xmlns=''>to cobol</arg0>          </WBSREFT>       </soapenv:Body>    </soapenv:Envelope>0 

If I send the XML request using soapUI that’s what TCPMon captures:

POST / HTTP/0.9 Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: '' User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 Host: 172.17.192.113:6133 Content-Length: 265  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>       <soapenv:Body>          <WBSREFT xmlns='http://tempuri.org/LICPOCSampleService'>             <arg0 xmlns=''>to cobol</arg0>          </WBSREFT>       </soapenv:Body>    </soapenv:Envelope> 

I’ve noticed this weird output: 102 and 0 in the middle of the XML… what can it be?

Answer 1

After all Eclipse’s plugin TCP/IP Monitor was apparently not giving me the right XML request leading me to wrong directions.

It was showing encoding=’http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’, while Apache TCPMon gave me different (RIGHT) results.

As saua noted, problem was the Chunk encoding, which you can change with this (AND SOLVED MY PROBLEM):

options.setProperty(org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.CHUNKED, Boolean.FALSE); 

And to answer my question:

options.setProperty(org.apache.axis2.Constants.Configuration.CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING, 'UTF-8');