SOAP With Attachment with Java, working example

This code actually works , and produces a SOAM message with attachment of type application/octet-stream - which is totally acceptable, even if I would have preferred application/pdf.

import javax.xml.soap.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.activation.*;


// now all the SOAP code
MessageFactory factory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage message = factory.createMessage();
SOAPPart soapPart = message.getSOAPPart();
SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
SOAPHeader header = envelope.getHeader();

DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
// add the SOAP body as from text
StringReader sr = new StringReader(textToSend);
InputSource is = new InputSource(sr);
Document document = builder.parse(is);
SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
SOAPBodyElement docElement = body.addDocument(document);
// add attachment from file          

String filename = theBUSINESSIDVALUE.split("\\^")[0];
File fileAttachment = new File(rootFolderForMSS + filename + ".pdf");
FileDataSource fds = new FileDataSource(fileAttachment);
DataHandler dh = new DataHandler(fds);
out.write("content-type=" + dh.getContentType() + "
");

AttachmentPart attachment = message.createAttachmentPart(dh);

String contentId = "<" + filename + ".pdf>";
attachment.setContentId(contentId);
message.addAttachmentPart(attachment);


SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnectionFactory = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
SOAPConnection connection = soapConnectionFactory.createConnection();
java.net.URL endpoint = new URL(POSTTOURL);
SOAPMessage soapResponse = connection.call(message, endpoint);

I had tried this one before:

AttachmentPart attachment = message.createAttachmentPart();

String filename = theBUSINESSIDVALUE.split("\\^")[0];
File fileAttachment = new File(rootFolderForMSS + filename + ".pdf");
byte[] fileData = new byte[(int) fileAttachment.length()];
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(fileAttachment));
dis.readFully(fileData);
dis.close();
  
String contentId = "<" + filename + ".pdf>";
attachment.setContent(new ByteArrayInputStream(fileData), "application/pdf");
attachment.setContentId(contentId);
message.addAttachmentPart(attachment);

but it was failing with this error

 javax.activation.UnsupportedDataTypeException: no object DCH for MIME type application/pdf
        at javax.activation.ObjectDataContentHandler.writeTo(DataHandler.java:877)
        at javax.activation.DataHandler.writeTo(DataHandler.java:302)
        at javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart.writeTo(MimeBodyPart.java:1403)
        at javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart.writeTo(MimeBodyPart.java:874)
        at javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart.writeTo(MimeMultipart.java:444)
        at weblogic.xml.saaj.SOAPMessageImpl.writeMimeMessage(SOAPMessageImpl.java:959)
        at weblogic.xml.saaj.SOAPMessageImpl.writeTo(SOAPMessageImpl.java:832)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.post(HttpSOAPConnection.java:237)
        at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.call(HttpSOAPConnection.java:144)

For more info see:

http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnbhr.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/activation/FileDataSource.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/activation/DataHandler.html


I would rather say that it could be all a LOT simpler.... Java Java...too verbose...

SOAP: the S stands for Simple

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple


hahaha this is really hilarious. The people who have invented SOAP should be crucified by their balls - assuming they have 2 - and hung with their guts - sure they have, it takes guts to impose to the world such a pathetic underspecified underperforming ball of mud.

SOAP messages patterns

a useful collection of SOAP message patterns:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlp-scenarios/

a message for all seasons....


Especially interesting:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlp-scenarios/#S807

TrackingHeader with Via Intermediary with Timestamp 

(excellent for troubleshooting and performance monitoring!)

<t:TrackingHeader xmlns:t="http://example.org/2001/06/tracking">
      <t:Via>
        <t:Intermediary>soap://A.com/some/endpoint</t:Intermediary>
        <t:Timestamp>2001-03-09T08:00:00Z</t:Timestamp>
      </t:Via>
 

and the response correlated to the messageId

 <n:MsgHeader xmlns:n="http://example.org/requestresponse">
      <n:MessageId>uuid:09233523-567b-2891-b623-9dke28yod7m9</n:MessageId>
      <n:ResponseTo>uuid:09233523-345b-4351-b623-5dsf35sgs5d6</n:ResponseTo>

  </n:MsgHeader>