Question

The CXF generated client sends the following SOAP request which does not return records from their side:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <soap:Body>
        <PersonSearch xmlns="http://tlo.com/">
            <genericSearchInput>
                ....
            </genericSearchInput>
        </PersonSearch>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

The SoapUI request looks like the following and does return records:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tlo="http://tlo.com/">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <tlo:PersonSearch>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <tlo:genericSearchInput>
             ...
         </tlo:genericSearchInput>
      </tlo:PersonSearch>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The only difference I see is the default namespace declaration on instead of the namespace declaration on the soap envelope and the use of the namespace prefix. I have tried several different ways to get the CXF generated client to create the same kind of soap request. Can anyone give some pointers or do I need to use something else?

I am using org.apache.cxf:cxf-codegen-plugin:2.5.2 on JDK 6.

Answer 1

Did you use JAXB for databinding? I was able to resolve the same problem by using XMLBEANS instead. See the db flag for wsdl2java: http://cxf.apache.org/docs/wsdl-to-java.html

I am still looking for a better solution than just changing the databinding.

Update 20012-04-18: Sergey and Aki from the cxf users mailing list were so kind to show me the TransformationFeature of CXF. Using the following code on the client side works for me:

        MyService myService = new MyService();
        myPort = myService.getMyServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint();
        // See http://cxf.apache.org/docs/transformationfeature.html
        Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(myPort);

        Map<String, String> outTransformMap = Collections.singletonMap(
                "{http://myNamespace}*",
                "{http://myNamespace}*");
        org.apache.cxf.interceptor.transform.TransformOutInterceptor transformOutInterceptor =
                new org.apache.cxf.interceptor.transform.TransformOutInterceptor();
        transformOutInterceptor.setOutTransformElements(outTransformMap);
            client.getOutInterceptors().add(transformOutInterceptor);

I’m using this with CXF 2.5.2. with 2.5.3 and 2.5.6 according to Aki you have to use the defaultNamespace property.