Axis client CDATA XML in a string request

[Suresh Janardhanan]

Andreas,

I'll try to start from the beginning and explain what I am trying to
achieve as you suggested.
I generated a web service client for a .NET Target web service using Apache
Axis 2.1.6.1.
Here is a snippet of the .Net WSDL.
<wsdl:message name="RetrieveByParameterSoapIn">
<wsdl:part name="sKey" type="s:string" />
<wsdl:part name="sIDTypeID" type="s:string" />
<wsdl:part name="sID" type="s:string" />
<wsdl:part name="sXmlParameters" type="s:string" />
</wsdl:message>
The Target expects an XML string to be set in "sXmlParameters", something
like this -

<![CDATA[<PARAMETERS><RETURN><GENERALINFORMATION><INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c</INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID></GENERALINFORMATION></RETURN></PARAMETERS>]]


Since it is a "string type", Axis client is converting the characters - <
and >

So, the request looks like this -

[main] DEBUG httpclient.wire.content  - >> "<?xml version='1.0'
encoding='UTF-8'?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="
http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope";><soapenv:Body><ns1:RetrieveByParameter
xmlns:ns1="http://wsdl.echelon.com/Panoramix/
"><sKey>e1839da0c11c4058928b650f97c06853</sKey><sIDTypeID>f76e5d708edd464593bb031f646990b6</sIDTypeID><sID>100063728</sID><sXmlParameters>&lt;![CDATA[&lt;PARAMETERS>&lt;RETURN>&lt;GENERALINFORMATION>&lt;INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>3294f665bc644359bfd15824d2efe29c&lt;/INFORMATIONRETURNTYPEID>&lt;/GENERALINFORMATION>&lt;/RETURN>&lt;/PARAMETERS>]]&gt;</sXmlParameters></ns1:RetrieveByParameter></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>"


My objective is to send the XML string inside "sXmlParameters" as is
without the <, > getting converted.


So I tried these steps.

1. I thought by adding XMLInputFactory.properties -
javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing=false,
it would the issue. But you pointed out that since it is character data
this won't work.

2. I tried changing the "sXmlParameters" type in the wsdl, but that
resulted in com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException.

changed sXmlParameters type=s:string to xmlStingType as shown below.

      <wsdl:types>

            <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";

                  targetNamespace="http://wsdl.echelon.com/Panoramix/";>

                  <xsd:complexType name="xmlStringType">

                        <xsd:sequence>

                              <xsd:any xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>

                        </xsd:sequence>

                  </xsd:complexType>

            </xsd:schema>

      </wsdl:types>

<wsdl:part name="sXmlParameters" type="tns:xmlStringType" />

Code Snippet:

XmlStringType xmlStrType = *new* XmlStringType();

      OMElement element = AXIOMUtil.*stringToOM*(xmlParameters);

      xmlStrType.setExtraElement(element);

Stack Trace:

Caused by:

org.apache.axiom.om.OMException:
com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character 'C'
(code 67) (CDATA not allowed in prolog/epilog)

at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,3]

  Stack Trace:


org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:297)


org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMDocumentImpl.getOMDocumentElement(OMDocumentImpl.java:111)


org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:571)


org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:567)

        org.apache.axiom.om.util.AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(AXIOMUtil.java:54)

        org.apache.axiom.om.util.AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(AXIOMUtil.java:39)


Any help is much appreciated.


Thanks,

Suresh