Generating fault detail; basic auth over SSL

Question

2 questions.
1) We are running GLUE in WL5.1 and are investigating porting the app to WL6.1.
In GLUE we can control the content of the SOAP fault detail generated on the server
through a SOAPException class. Is there any way to do this in WL6.1 SOAP?
2) Does the WL6.1 SOAP client support basic auth over SSL? If so, do I specify
an https URL and set the user/pwd in the context properties?
Thanks,
-rg

Answer 1

Beta 1 does not support custom soap fault. it puts name of the
exception class as faultstring and the exception message + stack
trace as the details.
We understand that users may want to customize the soap fault
and we are planning to support it by allowing user to configure
error pages. ie, user can specify the servlet/jsp to use in case
foo exception occured while processing soap request.
An example of the error handling servlet is attached.
regards,
manoj
public class FaultHandler extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException
res.setContentType("text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
String eType;
String eMessage;
Exception e = (Exception)req.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.exception");
eType = e.getClass().getName();
eMessage = e.getMessage();
PrintWriter w = res.getWriter();
w.println("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>");
w.println("<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">");
w.println("<soap:Body>");
w.println("<soap:Fault>");
w.println("<faultcode>");
w.println(eType);
w.println("</faultcode>");
w.println("<faultstring>");
w.println(eMessage);
w.println("</faultstring>");
if (e != null) {
w.println("<detail>");
e.printStackTrace(w);
w.println("</detail");
w.println("</soap:Fault>");
w.println("</soap:Body>");
w.println("</soap:Envelope>");
Rhett Guthrie wrote:
If it is the conent of the soap:fault/detail you want
to modify, you can do it by simply throwing the
exception with right message.Thanks for the reply Manoj, but are you sure that the exception message maps to
the fault detail? The fault detail is supposed to be XML. It would be more natural
to map the exception message to the fault message. But we need to specify both.
We send a human readable message in the fault message and a complex XML structure
(describing ways in which the fault can be fixed) in the fault detail.
Thanks for any clarification you can give.
-rg