How to add SOAP Headers to Spring Jax-WS Client?

Question

How can I add SOAP Headers to Spring Jax-WS Client?

Specifically, I have a Jaxb object I would like to add to the header but xml examples would be appreciated.

I am using Spring's JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean described here. Also, I am generating my client as described here which is working less the headers I need to add.

Thank you.

Answer 1

A little bit more elegant (still a class cast is required):

public void doWithMessage(WebServiceMessage message) {
    try {
        SOAPMessage soapMessage = ((SaajSoapMessage)message).getSaajMessage();
        SOAPHeader header = soapMessage.getSOAPHeader();
        SOAPHeaderElement security = header.addHeaderElement(new QName("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/06/secext", "Security", "wsse"));
        SOAPElement usernameToken = security.addChildElement("UsernameToken", "wsse");
        SOAPElement username = usernameToken.addChildElement("Username", "wsse");
        SOAPElement password = usernameToken.addChildElement("Password", "wsse");

        username.setTextContent(someUsername);
        password.setTextContent(somePassword);
    } catch (Exception e) {
       //... handle appropriately
    }
}

Note: This example has been testes with Spring WS 2.1.4.

Answer 2

I'm still trying to find an elegant way to add headers, but what I do as suggested by others is to use a Transformer on the WebServiceMessageCallBack(). Here's an example code:

JAXBElement<GetDeletedResponse> result = (JAXBElement<GetDeletedResponse>) webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(request, new WebServiceMessageCallback() {
public void doWithMessage(WebServiceMessage webServiceMessage) {
    try {
        SoapMessage soapMessage = (SoapMessage) webServiceMessage;
        soapMessage.setSoapAction("getDeleted");

        SoapHeader header = soapMessage.getSoapHeader();
        StringSource headerSource = new StringSource("<account>\n" +
                                "<username>"+"johnsmith"+"</username>\n" +
                                "<password>"+"1234"+"</password>\n" +
                                "</account>");
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(headerSource, header.getResult());

       } catch (Exception e) {
         new RuntimeException(e);
       }
}
...

It's not really elegant, considering this is Spring's WS. It's not intuitive.