problem with input stream being closed

[cj...@qantas.com.au]

Hi There,

Am using axis 1.1 and we want to subclass AxisServlet and implement doPost
primarily so that we can output the SOAP requests to a specific log file.
My problem is that when I extract the request from request.getInputStream
the inputstream is now closed and can't be used again. I've tried using
inputstreams that allow marking and resetting but none of these seem to
work, I keep getting "org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
" back.

My query is, how does the axis code manage to extract the data from the
inputstream in the method getSOAPPartAsString without closing the stream
and thus rendering it unuseable by the SAX parser as my code does? I've had
a look at the underlying code of this - SOAPPart.getAsString -> getAsBytes
and it's doing normal IO to get the data. However, when I use exaclty the
same method of working on the inputstream it renders it unuseable.

Help! If this is something simple, can you please let me know or it's not
that simple I'd very much appreciate it if you could point me in the right
direction.

thanks for your time.




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