Empty SOAP body when I add an attachment problem

[Ally Hume <a....@epcc.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Axis 1.2

I have a web service operation that returns an object which is
successfully serialized and returned in the body of the SOAP message.

I now want to allow this operation to also include an attachment in
the response.  So I have added code like the following:

  MessageContext context = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
  Message responseMessage = context.getResponseMessage();
  AttachmentPart ap = responseMessage.createAttachmentPart();
  ap.setContent("MyData", "text/plain");
  responseMessage.addAttachmentPart(ap);

This successfully adds an attachment to the response but whenever I do
this the object that is returned by my method no longer appears
serialized in the SOAP body - instead the body is empty (see example
below).

Is there a vital stage I am missing?   I start from the WSDL and use
wsdl2java to generate the interfaces we program against.  I have not
changed the WSDL at all.  I have only added the above code and added
the activation.jar and mailapi.jar jar files to the axis lib
directory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Ally Hume

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Example of response with empty SOAP body in case this includes any
clues:


HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/xml";
start="<9A7A8A7390896B7981077BC7281B390B>";
boundary="----=_Part_0_4301103.1135004018807"

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:53:39 GMT

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Connection: close

------=_Part_0_4301103.1135004018807

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

Content-Id: <9A7A8A7390896B7981077BC7281B390B>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body/><
/soapenv:Envelope>

------=_Part_0_4301103.1135004018807

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

Content-Id: <D2852F9908AACC88F656F033A7626DE4>

AllyTest

------=_Part_0_4301103.1135004018807--


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