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CXF Component

When using CXF as a consumer, the CXF Bean Component allows you to factor out how message payloads are received from their processing as a RESTful or SOAP web service. This has the potential of using a multitude of transports to consume web services. The bean component's configuration is also simpler and provides the fastest method to implement web services using Camel and CXF.

When using CXF in streaming modes (see DataFormat option), then also read about Stream caching.

The cxf: component provides integration with Apache CXF for connecting to JAX-WS services hosted in CXF.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

xml<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId> <artifactId>camel-cxf</artifactId> <version>x.x.x</version> <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version --> </dependency> CXF dependencies

If you want to learn about CXF dependencies you can checkout the WHICH-JARS text file.

URI format

javacxf:bean:cxfEndpoint[?options]

Where cxfEndpoint represents a bean ID that references a bean in the Spring bean registry. With this URI format, most of the endpoint details are specified in the bean definition.

javacxf://someAddress[?options]

Where someAddress specifies the CXF endpoint's address. With this URI format, most of the endpoint details are specified using options.

For either style above, you can append options to the URI as follows:

javacxf:bean:cxfEndpoint?wsdlURL=wsdl/hello_world.wsdl&dataFormat=PAYLOAD

Options

Name

Required

Description

wsdlURL

No

The location of the WSDL. It is obtained from endpoint address by default.

Example: file://local/wsdl/hello.wsdl or wsdl/hello.wsdl

serviceClass

Yes

The name of the SEI (Service Endpoint Interface) class. This class can have, but does not require, JSR181 annotations.
This option is only required by POJO mode. If the wsdlURL option is provided, serviceClass is not required for PAYLOAD and MESSAGE mode. When wsdlURL option is used without serviceClass, the serviceName and portName (endpointName for Spring configuration) options MUST be provided. It is possible to use # notation to reference a serviceClass object instance from the registry. E.g. serviceClass=#beanName. The serviceClass for a CXF producer (that is, the to endpoint) should be a Java interface.
Since 2.8, it is possible to omit both wsdlURL and serviceClass options for PAYLOAD and MESSAGE mode. When they are omitted, arbitrary XML elements can be put in CxfPayload's body in PAYLOAD mode to facilitate CXF Dispatch Mode.

Please be advised that the referenced object cannot be a Proxy (Spring AOP Proxy is OK) as it relies on Object.getClass().getName() method for non Spring AOP Proxy.

Example: org.apache.camel.Hello

serviceName

No

The service name this service is implementing, it maps to the wsdl:service@name.

Required for camel-cxf consumer since camel-2.2.0 or if more than one serviceName is present in WSDL.

Example: {http:­//org.apache.camel}ServiceName

endpointName

No

The port name this service is implementing, it maps to the wsdl:port@name.

Required for camel-cxf consumer since camel-2.2.0 or if more than one portName is present under serviceName.

Example: {http:­//org.apache.camel}PortName

dataFormat

No

The data type messages supported by the CXF endpoint.

Default: POJO
Example: POJO, PAYLOAD, MESSAGE

relayHeaders

No

Please see the Description of relayHeaders option section for this option. Should a CXF endpoint relay headers along the route. Currently only available when dataFormat=POJO

Default: true
Example: true, false

wrapped

No

Which kind of operation that CXF endpoint producer will invoke

Default: false
Example: true, false

wrappedStyle

No

New in 2.5.0 The WSDL style that describes how parameters are represented in the SOAP body. If the value is false, CXF will chose the document-literal unwrapped style, If the value is true, CXF will chose the document-literal wrapped style

Default: Null
Example: true, false

setDefaultBus

No

Deprecated Will set the default bus when CXF endpoint create a bus by itself. This option is deprecated use defaultBus from Camel 2.16 onwards.

Default: false
Example: true, false

defaultBus
No

Camel 2.16: Will set the default bus when CXF endpoint create a bus by itself

 Default: false 
 Example: true, false

bus

No

A default bus created by CXF Bus Factory. Use # notation to reference a bus object from the registry. The referenced object must be an instance of org.apache.cxf.Bus.

Example: bus=#busName

cxfBinding

No

Use # notation to reference a CXF binding object from the registry. The referenced object must be an instance of org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CxfBinding (use an instance of org.apache.camel.component.cxf.DefaultCxfBinding).

Example: cxfBinding=#bindingName

headerFilterStrategy

No

Use # notation to reference a header filter strategy object from the registry. The referenced object must be an instance of org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy (use an instance of org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CxfHeaderFilterStrategy).

Example: headerFilterStrategy=#strategyName

loggingFeatureEnabled

No

New in 2.3. This option enables CXF Logging Feature which writes inbound and outbound SOAP messages to log.

Default: false
Example: loggingFeatureEnabled=true

defaultOperationName

No

New in 2.4, this option will set the default operationName that will be used by the CxfProducer which invokes the remote service.

Default: null
Example: defaultOperationName=greetMe

defaultOperationNamespace

No

New in 2.4. This option will set the default operationNamespace that will be used by the CxfProducer which invokes the remote service.

Default: null
Example: defaultOperationNamespace=http://apache.org/hello_world_soap_http

synchronous

No

New in 2.5. This option will let cxf endpoint decide to use sync or async API to do the underlying work. The default value is false which means camel-cxf endpoint will try to use async API by default.

Default: false
Example: synchronous=true

publishedEndpointUrl

No

New in 2.5. This option can override the endpointUrl that published from the WSDL which can be accessed with service address url plus ?wsdl.

Default: null
Example: publshedEndpointUrl=http://example.com/service

properties.XXX

No

Camel 2.8: Allows to set custom properties to CXF in the endpoint uri. For example setting properties.mtom-enabled=true to enable MTOM. properties.org.apache.cxf.interceptor.OneWayProcessorInterceptor.USE_ORIGINAL_THREAD=true just make sure the CXF doesn't switch the thread when start the invocation.

allowStreaming

No

New in Camel 2.8.2. This option controls whether the CXF component, when running in PAYLOAD mode (see below), will DOM parse the incoming messages into DOM Elements or keep the payload as a javax.xml.transform.Source object that would allow streaming in some cases.

skipFaultLogging

No

New in Camel 2.11. This option controls whether the PhaseInterceptorChain skips logging the Fault that it catches.

cxfEndpointConfigurer

No

New in Camel 2.11. This option could apply the implementation of org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CxfEndpointConfigurer which supports to configure the CXF endpoint in  programmatic way. Since Camel 2.15.0, user can configure the CXF server and client by implementing configure{Server|Client} method of CxfEndpointConfigurer.

username

No

New in Camel 2.12.3 This option is used to set the basic authentication information of username for the CXF client.

password

No

New in Camel 2.12.3 This option is used to set the basic authentication information of password for the CXF client.

continuationTimeout

No

New in Camel 2.14.0 This option is used to set the CXF continuation timeout which could be used in CxfConsumer by default when the CXF server is using Jetty or Servlet transport. (Before Camel 2.14.0, CxfConsumer just set the continuation timeout to be 0, which means the continuation suspend operation never timeout.)

Default: 30000
 Example: continuation=80000

cookieHandlerNoNew in Camel 2.19.0: Configure a cookie handler to maintain a HTTP session

The serviceName and portName are QNames, so if you provide them be sure to prefix them with their {namespace} as shown in the examples above.

The descriptions of the dataformats

DataFormat

Description

POJO

POJOs (Plain old Java objects) are the Java parameters to the method being invoked on the target server. Both Protocol and Logical JAX-WS handlers are supported.

PAYLOAD

PAYLOAD is the message payload (the contents of the soap:body) after message configuration in the CXF endpoint is applied. Only Protocol JAX-WS handler is supported. Logical JAX-WS handler is not supported.

MESSAGE

MESSAGE is the raw message that is received from the transport layer. It is not suppose to touch or change Stream, some of the CXF interceptors will be removed if you are using this kind of DataFormat so you can't see any soap headers after the camel-cxf consumer and JAX-WS handler is not supported.

CXF_MESSAGE

New in Camel 2.8.2, CXF_MESSAGE allows for invoking the full capabilities of CXF interceptors by converting the message from the transport layer into a raw SOAP message

You can determine the data format mode of an exchange by retrieving the exchange property, CamelCXFDataFormat. The exchange key constant is defined in org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CxfConstants.DATA_FORMAT_PROPERTY.

How to enable CXF's LoggingOutInterceptor in MESSAGE mode

CXF's LoggingOutInterceptor outputs outbound message that goes on the wire to logging system (Java Util Logging). Since the LoggingOutInterceptor is in PRE_STREAM phase (but PRE_STREAM phase is removed in MESSAGE mode), you have to configure LoggingOutInterceptor to be run during the WRITE phase. The following is an example.{snippet:id=enableLoggingOutInterceptor|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/LoggingInterceptorInMessageModeTest-context.xml}

Description of relayHeaders option

There are in-band and out-of-band on-the-wire headers from the perspective of a JAXWS WSDL-first developer.

The in-band headers are headers that are explicitly defined as part of the WSDL binding contract for an endpoint such as SOAP headers.

The out-of-band headers are headers that are serialized over the wire, but are not explicitly part of the WSDL binding contract.

Headers relaying/filtering is bi-directional.

When a route has a CXF endpoint and the developer needs to have on-the-wire headers, such as SOAP headers, be relayed along the route to be consumed say by another JAXWS endpoint, then relayHeaders should be set to true, which is the default value.

Available only in POJO mode

The relayHeaders=true express an intent to relay the headers. The actual decision on whether a given header is relayed is delegated to a pluggable instance that implements the MessageHeadersRelay interface. A concrete implementation of MessageHeadersRelay will be consulted to decide if a header needs to be relayed or not. There is already an implementation of SoapMessageHeadersRelay which binds itself to well-known SOAP name spaces. Currently only out-of-band headers are filtered, and in-band headers will always be relayed when relayHeaders=true. If there is a header on the wire, whose name space is unknown to the runtime, then a fall back DefaultMessageHeadersRelay will be used, which simply allows all headers to be relayed.

The relayHeaders=false setting asserts that all headers in-band and out-of-band will be dropped.

You can plugin your own MessageHeadersRelay implementations overriding or adding additional ones to the list of relays. In order to override a preloaded relay instance just make sure that your MessageHeadersRelay implementation services the same name spaces as the one you looking to override. Also note, that the overriding relay has to service all of the name spaces as the one you looking to override, or else a runtime exception on route start up will be thrown as this would introduce an ambiguity in name spaces to relay instance mappings.

xml<cxf:cxfEndpoint ...> <cxf:properties> <entry key="org.apache.camel.cxf.message.headers.relays"> <list> <ref bean="customHeadersRelay"/> </list> </entry> </cxf:properties> </cxf:cxfEndpoint> <bean id="customHeadersRelay" class="org.apache.camel.component.cxf.soap.headers.CustomHeadersRelay"/>

Take a look at the tests that show how you'd be able to relay/drop headers here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/branches/camel-1.x/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest.java

Changes since Release 2.0
  • POJO and PAYLOAD modes are supported. In POJO mode, only out-of-band message headers are available for filtering as the in-band headers have been processed and removed from header list by CXF. The in-band headers are incorporated into the MessageContentList in POJO mode. The camel-cxf component does make any attempt to remove the in-band headers from the MessageContentList. If filtering of in-band headers is required, please use PAYLOAD mode or plug in a (pretty straightforward) CXF interceptor/JAXWS Handler to the CXF endpoint.
  • The Message Header Relay mechanism has been merged into CxfHeaderFilterStrategy. The relayHeaders option, its semantics, and default value remain the same, but it is a property of CxfHeaderFilterStrategy.
    Here is an example of configuring it.{snippet:id=dropAllMessageHeadersStrategy|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest-context.xml}Then, your endpoint can reference the CxfHeaderFilterStrategy.{snippet:id=noRelayRoute|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest-context.xml}

  • The MessageHeadersRelay interface has changed slightly and has been renamed to MessageHeaderFilter. It is a property of CxfHeaderFilterStrategy. Here is an example of configuring user defined Message Header Filters:{snippet:id=customMessageFilterStrategy|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest-context.xml}

  • Other than relayHeaders, there are new properties that can be configured in CxfHeaderFilterStrategy.

    Name

    Required

    Description

    relayHeaders

    No

    All message headers will be processed by Message Header Filters

    Type: boolean
    Default: true

    relayAllMessageHeaders

    No

    All message headers will be propagated (without processing by Message Header Filters)

    Type: boolean
    Default: false

    allowFilterNamespaceClash

    No

    If two filters overlap in activation namespace, the property control how it should be handled. If the value is true, last one wins. If the value is false, it will throw an exception

    Type: boolean
    Default: false

    Configure the CXF endpoints with Spring

    You can configure the CXF endpoint with the Spring configuration file shown below, and you can also embed the endpoint into the camelContext tags. When you are invoking the service endpoint, you can set the operationName and operationNamespace headers to explicitly state which operation you are calling.

    xml<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cxf="http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf/camel-cxf.xsd http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd"> <cxf:cxfEndpoint id="routerEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9003/CamelContext/RouterPort" serviceClass="org.apache.hello_world_soap_http.GreeterImpl"/> <cxf:cxfEndpoint id="serviceEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapPort" wsdlURL="testutils/hello_world.wsdl" serviceClass="org.apache.hello_world_soap_http.Greeter" endpointName="s:SoapPort" serviceName="s:SOAPService" xmlns:s="http://apache.org/hello_world_soap_http" /> <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"> <route> <from uri="cxf:bean:routerEndpoint" /> <to uri="cxf:bean:serviceEndpoint" /> </route> </camelContext> </beans>

    Be sure to include the JAX-WS schemaLocation attribute specified on the root beans element. This allows CXF to validate the file and is required. Also note the namespace declarations at the end of the <cxf:cxfEndpoint/> tag--these are required because the combined {namespace}localName syntax is presently not supported for this tag's attribute values.

    The cxf:cxfEndpoint element supports many additional attributes:

    Name

    Value

    PortName

    The endpoint name this service is implementing, it maps to the wsdl:port@name. In the format of ns:PORT_NAME where ns is a namespace prefix valid at this scope.

    serviceName

    The service name this service is implementing, it maps to the wsdl:service@name. In the format of ns:SERVICE_NAME where ns is a namespace prefix valid at this scope.

    wsdlURL

    The location of the WSDL. Can be on the classpath, file system, or be hosted remotely.

    bindingId

    The bindingId for the service model to use.

    address

    The service publish address.

    bus

    The bus name that will be used in the JAX-WS endpoint.

    serviceClass

    The class name of the SEI (Service Endpoint Interface) class which could have JSR181 annotation or not.

    It also supports many child elements:

    Name

    Value

    cxf:inInterceptors

    The incoming interceptors for this endpoint. A list of <bean> or <ref>.

    cxf:inFaultInterceptors

    The incoming fault interceptors for this endpoint. A list of <bean> or <ref>.

    cxf:outInterceptors

    The outgoing interceptors for this endpoint. A list of <bean> or <ref>.

    cxf:outFaultInterceptors

    The outgoing fault interceptors for this endpoint. A list of <bean> or <ref>.

    cxf:properties

    A properties map which should be supplied to the JAX-WS endpoint. See below.

    cxf:handlers

    A JAX-WS handler list which should be supplied to the JAX-WS endpoint. See below.

    cxf:dataBinding

    You can specify the which DataBinding will be use in the endpoint. This can be supplied using the Spring <bean class="MyDataBinding"/> syntax.

    cxf:binding

    You can specify the BindingFactory for this endpoint to use. This can be supplied using the Spring <bean class="MyBindingFactory"/> syntax.

    cxf:features

    The features that hold the interceptors for this endpoint. A list of {{<bean>}}s or {{<ref>}}s

    cxf:schemaLocations

    The schema locations for endpoint to use. A list of {{<schemaLocation>}}s

    cxf:serviceFactory

    The service factory for this endpoint to use. This can be supplied using the Spring <bean class="MyServiceFactory"/> syntax

     

You can find more advanced examples that show how to provide interceptors, properties and handlers on the CXF JAX-WS Configuration page.

NOTE
You can use cxf:properties to set the camel-cxf endpoint's dataFormat and setDefaultBus properties from spring configuration file.

xml<cxf:cxfEndpoint id="testEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9000/router" serviceClass="org.apache.camel.component.cxf.HelloService" endpointName="s:PortName" serviceName="s:ServiceName" xmlns:s="http://www.example.com/test"> <cxf:properties> <entry key="dataFormat" value="MESSAGE"/> <entry key="setDefaultBus" value="true"/> </cxf:properties> </cxf:cxfEndpoint>

Configuring the CXF Endpoints with Apache Aries Blueprint.

Since camel 2.8 there is support for utilizing aries blueprint dependency injection for your CXF endpoints.
The schema utilized is very similar to the spring schema so the transition is fairly transparent.

Example

xml<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cm="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.0.0" xmlns:camel-cxf="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/cxf" xmlns:cxfcore="http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/core" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 https://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd"> <camel-cxf:cxfEndpoint id="routerEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9001/router" serviceClass="org.apache.servicemix.examples.cxf.HelloWorld"> <camel-cxf:properties> <entry key="dataFormat" value="MESSAGE"/> </camel-cxf:properties> </camel-cxf:cxfEndpoint> <camel-cxf:cxfEndpoint id="serviceEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapPort" serviceClass="org.apache.servicemix.examples.cxf.HelloWorld"> </camel-cxf:cxfEndpoint> <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint"> <route> <from uri="routerEndpoint"/> <to uri="log:request"/> </route> </camelContext> </blueprint>

Currently the endpoint element is the first supported CXF namespacehandler.

You can also use the bean references just as in spring

xml<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cm="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.0.0" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/jaxws" xmlns:cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/core" xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint" xmlns:camelcxf="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/cxf" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 https://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/blueprint/jaxws.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/core http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/blueprint/core.xsd "> <camelcxf:cxfEndpoint id="reportIncident" address="/camel-example-cxf-blueprint/webservices/incident" wsdlURL="META-INF/wsdl/report_incident.wsdl" serviceClass="org.apache.camel.example.reportincident.ReportIncidentEndpoint"> </camelcxf:cxfEndpoint> <bean id="reportIncidentRoutes" class="org.apache.camel.example.reportincident.ReportIncidentRoutes" /> <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint"> <routeBuilder ref="reportIncidentRoutes"/> </camelContext> </blueprint>

How to make the camel-cxf component use log4j instead of java.util.logging

CXF's default logger is java.util.logging. If you want to change it to log4j, proceed as follows. Create a file, in the classpath, named META-INF/cxf/org.apache.cxf.logger. This file should contain the fully-qualified name of the class, org.apache.cxf.common.logging.Log4jLogger, with no comments, on a single line.

How to let camel-cxf response message with xml start document

If you are using some SOAP client such as PHP, you will get this kind of error, because CXF doesn't add the XML start document "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>"

Error:sendSms: SoapFault exception: [Client] looks like we got no XML document in [...]

To resolved this issue, you just need to tell StaxOutInterceptor to write the XML start document for you.{snippet:id=example|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/WriteXmlDeclarationInterceptor.java}You can add a customer interceptor like this and configure it into you camel-cxf endpont{snippet:id=example|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/GreeterEndpointsRouterContext.xml}Or adding a message header for it like this if you are using Camel 2.4.

// set up the response context which force start document Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>(); map.put("org.apache.cxf.stax.force-start-document", Boolean.TRUE); exchange.getOut().setHeader(Client.RESPONSE_CONTEXT, map);

How to override the CXF producer address from message header

The camel-cxf producer supports to override the services address by setting the message with the key of "CamelDestinationOverrideUrl".

// set up the service address from the message header to override the setting of CXF endpoint exchange.getIn().setHeader(Exchange.DESTINATION_OVERRIDE_URL, constant(getServiceAddress()));

How to consume a message from a camel-cxf endpoint in POJO data format

The camel-cxf endpoint consumer POJO data format is based on the cxf invoker, so the message header has a property with the name of CxfConstants.OPERATION_NAME and the message body is a list of the SEI method parameters.{snippet:id=personProcessor|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/wsdl_first/PersonProcessor.java}

How to prepare the message for the camel-cxf endpoint in POJO data format

The camel-cxf endpoint producer is based on the cxf client API. First you need to specify the operation name in the message header, then add the method parameters to a list, and initialize the message with this parameter list. The response message's body is a messageContentsList, you can get the result from that list.

If you don't specify the operation name in the message header, CxfProducer will try to use the defaultOperationName from CxfEndpoint, if there is no defaultOperationName set on CxfEndpoint, it will pickup the first operationName from the Operation list.

If you want to get the object array from the message body, you can get the body using message.getbody(Object[].class), as follows:{snippet:id=sending|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfProducerRouterTest.java}

How to deal with the message for a camel-cxf endpoint in PAYLOAD data format

PAYLOAD means that you process the payload message from the SOAP envelope. You can use the Header.HEADER_LIST as the key to set or get the SOAP headers and use the List<Element> to set or get SOAP body elements.
Message.getBody() will return an org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CxfPayload object, which has getters for SOAP message headers and Body elements. This change enables decoupling the native CXF message from the Camel message.{snippet:id=payload|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfConsumerPayloadTest.java}

How to get and set SOAP headers in POJO mode

POJO means that the data format is a "list of Java objects" when the Camel-cxf endpoint produces or consumes Camel exchanges. Even though Camel expose message body as POJOs in this mode, Camel-cxf still provides access to read and write SOAP headers. However, since CXF interceptors remove in-band SOAP headers from Header list after they have been processed, only out-of-band SOAP headers are available to Camel-cxf in POJO mode.

The following example illustrate how to get/set SOAP headers. Suppose we have a route that forwards from one Camel-cxf endpoint to another. That is, SOAP Client -> Camel -> CXF service. We can attach two processors to obtain/insert SOAP headers at (1) before request goes out to the CXF service and (2) before response comes back to the SOAP Client. Processor (1) and (2) in this example are InsertRequestOutHeaderProcessor and InsertResponseOutHeaderProcessor. Our route looks like this:{snippet:id=processSoapHeaderRoute|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest-context.xml}SOAP headers are propagated to and from Camel Message headers. The Camel message header name is "org.apache.cxf.headers.Header.list" which is a constant defined in CXF (org.apache.cxf.headers.Header.HEADER_LIST). The header value is a List of CXF SoapHeader objects (org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapHeader). The following snippet is the InsertResponseOutHeaderProcessor (that insert a new SOAP header in the response message). The way to access SOAP headers in both InsertResponseOutHeaderProcessor and InsertRequestOutHeaderProcessor are actually the same. The only difference between the two processors is setting the direction of the inserted SOAP header.{snippet:id=InsertResponseOutHeaderProcessor|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/soap/headers/CxfMessageHeadersRelayTest.java}

How to get and set SOAP headers in PAYLOAD mode

We've already shown how to access SOAP message (CxfPayload object) in PAYLOAD mode (See "How to deal with the message for a camel-cxf endpoint in PAYLOAD data format").

Once you obtain a CxfPayload object, you can invoke the CxfPayload.getHeaders() method that returns a List of DOM Elements (SOAP headers).{snippet:id=payload|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfPayLoadSoapHeaderTest.java}Since Camel 2.16.0, you can also use the same way as described in sub-chapter "How to get and set SOAP headers in POJO mode" to set or get the SOAP headers. So, you can use now the header "org.apache.cxf.headers.Header.list" to get and set a list of SOAP headers.This does also mean that if you have a route that forwards from one Camel-cxf endpoint to another (SOAP Client -> Camel -> CXF service), now also the SOAP headers sent by the SOAP client are forwarded to the CXF service. If you do not want that these headers are forwarded you have to remove them in the Camel header "org.apache.cxf.headers.Header.list".

SOAP headers are not available in MESSAGE mode

SOAP headers are not available in MESSAGE mode as SOAP processing is skipped.

How to throw a SOAP Fault from Camel

If you are using a camel-cxf endpoint to consume the SOAP request, you may need to throw the SOAP Fault from the camel context.
Basically, you can use the throwFault DSL to do that; it works for POJO, PAYLOAD and MESSAGE data format.
You can define the soap fault like this{snippet:id=FaultDefine|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfCustomizedExceptionTest.java}Then throw it as you like{snippet:id=ThrowFault|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfCustomizedExceptionTest.java}If your CXF endpoint is working in the MESSAGE data format, you could set the the SOAP Fault message in the message body and set the response code in the message header.{snippet:id=MessageStreamFault|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfMessageStreamExceptionTest.java}Same for using POJO data format. You can set the SOAPFault on the out body and also indicate it's a fault by calling Message.setFault(true):{snippet:id=onException|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/CxfMessageStreamExceptionTest.java}

How to propagate a camel-cxf endpoint's request and response context

cxf client API provides a way to invoke the operation with request and response context. If you are using a camel-cxf endpoint producer to invoke the outside web service, you can set the request context and get response context with the following code:

java CxfExchange exchange = (CxfExchange)template.send(getJaxwsEndpointUri(), new Processor() { public void process(final Exchange exchange) { final List<String> params = new ArrayList<String>(); params.add(TEST_MESSAGE); // Set the request context to the inMessage Map<String, Object> requestContext = new HashMap<String, Object>(); requestContext.put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, JAXWS_SERVER_ADDRESS); exchange.getIn().setBody(params); exchange.getIn().setHeader(Client.REQUEST_CONTEXT , requestContext); exchange.getIn().setHeader(CxfConstants.OPERATION_NAME, GREET_ME_OPERATION); } }); org.apache.camel.Message out = exchange.getOut(); // The output is an object array, the first element of the array is the return value Object\[\] output = out.getBody(Object\[\].class); LOG.info("Received output text: " + output\[0\]); // Get the response context form outMessage Map<String, Object> responseContext = CastUtils.cast((Map)out.getHeader(Client.RESPONSE_CONTEXT)); assertNotNull(responseContext); assertEquals("Get the wrong wsdl opertion name", "{http://apache.org/hello_world_soap_http}greetMe", responseContext.get("javax.xml.ws.wsdl.operation").toString());

Attachment Support

POJO Mode: Both SOAP with Attachment and MTOM are supported (see example in Payload Mode for enabling MTOM).  However, SOAP with Attachment is not tested.  Since attachments are marshalled and unmarshalled into POJOs, users typically do not need to deal with the attachment themself.  Attachments are propagated to Camel message's attachments if the MTOM is not enabled, since 2.12.3.  So, it is possible to retreive attachments by Camel Message API

DataHandler Message.getAttachment(String id)

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Payload Mode: MTOM is supported since 2.1. Attachments can be retrieved by Camel Message APIs mentioned above. SOAP with Attachment (SwA) is supported and attachments can be retrieved since 2.5. SwA is the default (same as setting the CXF endpoint property "mtom-enabled" to false). 

To enable MTOM, set the CXF endpoint property "mtom-enabled" to true. (I believe you can only do it with Spring.){snippet:id=enableMtom|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/mtom/CxfMtomRouterPayloadModeTest-context.xml}You can produce a Camel message with attachment to send to a CXF endpoint in Payload mode.{snippet:id=producer|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/mtom/CxfMtomProducerPayloadModeTest.java}You can also consume a Camel message received from a CXF endpoint in Payload mode.{snippet:id=consumer|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/mtom/CxfMtomConsumerPayloadModeTest.java}Message Mode: Attachments are not supported as it does not process the message at all.

CXF_MESSAGE Mode: MTOM is supported, and Attachments can be retrieved by Camel Message APIs mentioned above. Note that when receiving a multipart (i.e. MTOM) message the default SOAPMessage to String converter will provide the complete multipart payload on the body. If you require just the SOAP XML as a String, you can set the message body with message.getSOAPPart(), and Camel convert can do the rest of work for you.

Streaming Support in PAYLOAD mode

In 2.8.2, the camel-cxf component now supports streaming of incoming messages when using PAYLOAD mode. Previously, the incoming messages would have been completely DOM parsed. For large messages, this is time consuming and uses a significant amount of memory. Starting in 2.8.2, the incoming messages can remain as a javax.xml.transform.Source while being routed and, if nothing modifies the payload, can then be directly streamed out to the target destination. For common "simple proxy" use cases (example: from("cxf:...").to("cxf:...")), this can provide very significant performance increases as well as significantly lowered memory requirements.

However, there are cases where streaming may not be appropriate or desired. Due to the streaming nature, invalid incoming XML may not be caught until later in the processing chain. Also, certain actions may require the message to be DOM parsed anyway (like WS-Security or message tracing and such) in which case the advantages of the streaming is limited. At this point, there are two ways to control the streaming:

  • Endpoint property: you can add "allowStreaming=false" as an endpoint property to turn the streaming on/off.
  • Component property: the CxfComponent object also has an allowStreaming property that can set the default for endpoints created from that component.

Global system property: you can add a system property of "org.apache.camel.component.cxf.streaming" to "false" to turn if off. That sets the global default, but setting the endpoint property above will override this value for that endpoint.

Using the generic CXF Dispatch mode

From 2.8.0, the camel-cxf component supports the generic CXF dispatch mode that can transport messages of arbitrary structures (i.e., not bound to a specific XML schema). To use this mode, you simply omit specifying the wsdlURL and serviceClass attributes of the CXF endpoint.

xml<cxf:cxfEndpoint id="testEndpoint" address="http://localhost:9000/SoapContext/SoapAnyPort"> <cxf:properties> <entry key="dataFormat" value="PAYLOAD"/> </cxf:properties> </cxf:cxfEndpoint>

It is noted that the default CXF dispatch client does not send a specific SOAPAction header. Therefore, when the target service requires a specific SOAPAction value, it is supplied in the Camel header using the key SOAPAction (case-insensitive).

 

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