Configure two cxf jaxrs clients to use the same session (cookies)

Question

I want to connect to a REST server with a jaxrs client using apache cxf. The server has an url to authenticate and some other urls to do the actual stuff. After the login the server creates a session and keeps the connection open for 30 min. My problem is that the client doesn't store the cookies and I always get a new (not authenticated) session on the server.

I configured the clients in my spring application context.

<jaxrs:client id="loginResource" 
    serviceClass="com.mycompany.rest.resources.LoginResource" 
    address="${fsi.application.url}">
</jaxrs:client>
<jaxrs:client id="actionResource" 
    serviceClass="com.mycompany.rest.resources.ActionResource" 
    address="${fsi.application.url}">
</jaxrs:client>

How can I configure both clients to use the same session or share the session-cookie between the clients?

Answer 1

I have been struggling with the same problem, and I just finally arrived at a solution.

1) Make the client retain cookies.

WebClient.getConfig(proxy).getRequestContext().put(
        org.apache.cxf.message.Message.MAINTAIN_SESSION, Boolean.TRUE);

Perhaps there's a way to accomplish the above via configuration vs. programmatically.

2) Copy the cookies from one client to the other.

public static void copyCookies(Object sourceProxy, Object targetProxy) {
    HTTPConduit sourceConduit = WebClient.getConfig(sourceProxy).getHttpConduit();
    HTTPConduit targetConduit = WebClient.getConfig(targetProxy).getHttpConduit();
    targetConduit.getCookies().putAll(sourceConduit.getCookies());
}

After using proxy A to authenticate, I call the above method to share its cookies with proxy B, which does the actual work.