removing mustUnderstand attribute from soap headers

Question

How to remove mustunderstand attribute from soap header in axis client.even i dont set it especially, when i set soap header info mustundertand and actor attributes are automatically added to soap message.Does anybody know how to remove them ? I am using Axis2 1.4 version's wsdl2java to create my ws client.

Answer 1

None of those solutions worked for me, as:

• I am working with Axis (not Axis2)
• I don't want the attribute to be specified at all, as my server counterpart doesn't support it ("The 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/:mustUnderstand' attribute is not declared" is a typical answer in such a case).

Looking at the answer to "Adding ws-security to wsdl2java generated classes" helped me to write a solution that worked for me:

void addSecurityHeader(Stub stub, final String username, final String password) {
  QName headerName = new QName("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd", "Security");  // Or any other namespace that fits in your case
  AtomicReference<SOAPHeaderElement> header 
    = new AtomicReference<SOAPHeaderElement>
        (new SOAPHeaderElement(headerName) {                       
           {  
             SOAPElement utElem = addChildElement("UsernameToken");
             utElem.addChildElement("Username").setValue(username);
             utElem.addChildElement("Password").setValue(password);
           }
           @Override
           public void setAttribute(String namespace, String localName, String value) {
             if (!Constants.ATTR_MUST_UNDERSTAND.equals(localName)) {  // Or any other attribute name you'd want to avoid
               super.setAttribute(namespace, localName, value);
             }
           }
        });
  SOAPHeaderElement soapHeaderElement = header.get();
  soapHeaderElement.setActor(null);      // No intermediate actors are involved.
  stub.setHeader(soapHeaderElement);  // Finally, attach the header to the stub
}

Answer 2

If you want to disable the must understand check in the AXIS client you have to add the following line to your code:

_call.setProperty(Call.CHECK_MUST_UNDERSTAND, new Boolean(false));

then the MustUnderstandChecker of the AXIS Client is never invoked.