RE: How to get/pass header session information

[Glen Daniels <gd...@macromedia.com>]

Good catch, Mark.

I think the right solution to this might be to add APIs like this to
ServiceClient:

  public void addHeader(SOAPHeader header)
  public void clearHeaders()

This would allow the user to add headers to outgoing messages.  I'm not
sure, but I think a good default might be to persist the headers across
invoke()s unless clearHeaders() is called, which would enable very easy
usage in scenarios like the session one you mention.

Axis-dev'ers?  +1, -1?

--Glen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Roder [mailto:mroder@wamnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:02 PM
> To: 'axis-user@xml.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: How to get/pass header session information
> 
> 
> 
> I figured out how to get the session information by doing the 
> following:
>     User aUser=ArchiveDataTEST.getValidUser();
>     RPCParam userParam = new RPCParam("User", aUser) ;
>   
>     String endpoint = 
> "http://localhost:80/cgi-bin/wambase/mvsrch_front";
>  
>     ServiceClient client = new ServiceClient(endpoint);
>     client.addOption(AxisEngine.PROP_DOMULTIREFS, new Boolean(false));
>     client.addSerializer(User.class,new QName(),new BeanSerializer());
>     String ret = (String)client.invoke("Login",
>                                        new Object [] 
> {userParam });    
>     Message msg = client.getResponseMessage();
>     SOAPEnvelope env=msg.getAsSOAPEnvelope();
>     SOAPHeader sessionHeader =
> env.getHeaderByName("urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Session","SessionID");
>     String aString = (String) sessionHeader.getValueAsType(new
> QName(Constants.URI_2001_SCHEMA_XSD, "string"));
>     
>     String sessionId = aString.trim();
>     System.out.println("SessionID:" +sessionId);
> 
> I can create(I think it works) a header using the following code:
>     Document doc = XMLUtils.newDocument();
>     Element element = 
> doc.createElement(ArchiveConstants.NS_SESSION_ID);
>     element.setAttribute(ArchiveConstants.NS_AUTH_REF,
> ArchiveConstants.NS_AUTH_URI);
>     element.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(sessionId));
>     SOAPHeader sessionHeader = new SOAPHeader(element);
> 
> Now that I have the SOAPHeader, it looks like ServiceClient 
> is written in a
> way that doesn't allow me to add my own SOAPHeaders to a message.  
> 
> The invoke(method,args) creates a RPCElement and then runs
> invoke(RPCElement).
> 
> The invoke(RPCElement) creates the SOAPEnvelope and adds the 
> body, creates
> the message, calls invoke() and then decodes the response.
> 
> What I want to do is add my own header after the 
> invoke(RPCElement) does the
> work of setting up the message but before invoke() is called.
> 
> Options:
>   Option1: I started down the wrong path and there is an easier way.
>   Option2:
>       Change how the invoke methods are called so that the 
> RPC invokes call
> a "createEnvelope(method,args)" method that returns a 
> SOAPEnvelope.  They
> then call the invoke(SOAPEnvelope) method to make the call.  A
> "decode(SOAPEnvelope)" method will then return the object.  
> This is breaking
> up the  current invoke(RPCElement) method into the part above 
> invoke() and
> below invoke().
> 
>    This change would allow me to do the following in my code:
> 
>    reqEnv = client.createMessage(method,args);
>    reqEnv.addHeader(myHeader);
>    responseEnv = client.invoke(reqEnv);
>    resultObject = client.decode(responeEnv)
> 
>   Option3:  Make a method that you can pass in a header for 
> the message
>    
> Does this make sense?  Am I missing something?
> 
> Later
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Roder [mailto:mroder@wamnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:29 PM
> To: 'axis-user@xml.apache.org'
> Subject: How to get/pass header session information
> 
> 
> 
> I am just starting to use axis, so this may be simple.  I am 
> working on a
> soap client application hitting an existing server.
> 
> How do I pull the session information out of the header of 
> the following
> response?
> 
> Then, how do I add it all following requests?
> 
> 
> My current code:
> 
>     User aUser=ArchiveDataTEST.getValidUser();
>     RPCParam userParam = new RPCParam("User", aUser) ;
>   
>     String endpoint = 
"http://localhost:80/cgi-bin/wambase/mvsrch_front";
 
    ServiceClient client = new ServiceClient(endpoint);
    client.addOption(AxisEngine.PROP_DOMULTIREFS, new Boolean(false));
    client.addSerializer(User.class,new QName(),new BeanSerializer());
    String ret = (String)client.invoke("Login",
                                       new Object [] {userParam });    
    System.out.println("Sent 'Hello!', got '" + ret + "'");



Response I need to get session information out of:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:39:10 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.11
(Unix) mod_ssl/2.5.0 OpenSSL/0.9.4 Connection: close Content-Type: text/xml
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
	<soap:Header>
	 
		 <auth:SessionID xmlns:auth="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Session"
soap:mustUnderstand="1">
			ses09281011739119691.id
		</auth:SessionID> 
	</soap:Header> 
	<soap:Body> 
		<m:LoginResponse xmlns:m="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Archive" />
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>


Example request I need to put the session information into:

POST /cgi-bin/wambase/mvsrch_front HTTP/1.0 Host: localhost Content-Type:
text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 608 SOAPAction:
"urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Archive#GetLibraries"  <?xml version='1.0'
encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> 
<SOAP-ENV:Header> 
<auth:SessionID soap:mustUnderstand="1"
xmlns:auth="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Authentication">
ses09281011809017084.id 		</auth:SessionID> 
</SOAP-ENV:Header> 
<SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:GetLibraries xmlns:ns1="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:Archive"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
</ns1:GetLibraries> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> 


Thanks

Mark