Help with a SOAP message

[higashij]

I have a servlet that sends a SOAP message to a web service.

Wondering if it's possible to send a byte array in a SOAP message?

This is what I originally have, but now I need to send an additional variable that's a byte array.

//create connection
      SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnFact = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
      SOAPConnection connection = soapConnFact.createConnection();

      //create message
      MessageFactory msgFact = MessageFactory.newInstance();
      SOAPMessage msg = msgFact.createMessage();

      //add SOAP action to header
      MimeHeaders headers = msg.getMimeHeaders();
      headers.addHeader("SOAPAction", "url");

      //create objects for message parts
      SOAPPart soapPart = msg.getSOAPPart();
      SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
      SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();

      //populate body and create main element and namespace
      SOAPElement bodyElement = body.addChildElement(envelope.createName("Name", "Name", "http://tempuri.org/"));

      //add content
      bodyElement.addChildElement("username").addTextNode(_user);
      bodyElement.addChildElement("password").addTextNode(_password);
      bodyElement.addChildElement("xmlStr").addTextNode(_xml);

      //save message
      msg.saveChanges();

Thanks!

[Tolls]

What is the byte array? Is it a file? If so, send it as an attachment.

The web service itself should be looked on from the point of view of XML. If it looks like a silly thing to stick in XML (and I'd argue that a byte[] is a silly thing to stick in XML in almost every situation) then it's probably an idea to look at attachments.

[higashij]

Yes it is a file, but I had to put the content of the file into a byte array since that's what the web service is expecting. And I don't have any control over the web service because a vendor is actually doing that part.

But just in case, I'll search the forum on how to send it as an attachment.

Thanks!

[Tolls]

It needs to be setup at both ends.
Here's the jax-ws doc, scroll down to find the section on SAAJ.