Insert SoapHeader Authentication with Axis

Question

Hi to all,
I have a Java client that uses Axis to talk to a .NET based web service. I need to insert a soap header on the client side which is expected on the server side as Authentication.
The header I need to insert is the following:
<Authentication xmlns = "http://localhost/services/Odds">
     <Username>xxxxx</Username>
<Password>xxxxx</Password>
</Authentication>
So the complete SOAP message will be like follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<Authentication xmlns = "http://localhost/services/Odds">
<Username>xxxxx</Username>
<Password>xxxxx</Password>
</Authentication>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<GetXMLRaggruppamentiEsiti xmlns = "undefined"/>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
I've just tried to use the addHeader method:
SOAPHeaderElement user = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://localhost/services/Odds","Username","xxxxx");
call.addHeader(user);
SOAPHeaderElement pass = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://localhost/services/Odds","Password","xxxxx");
call.addHeader(pass);
but I obtain a message that the .NET web service doesn't accept, the message is the following:
<?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:Header>
<ns1:Username
soapenv:actor = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
soapenv:mustUnderstand = "0"
xsi:type = "soapenc:string"
xmlns:ns1 = "http://localhost/services/Odds"
xmlns:soapenc = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">xxxxx</ns1:Username>
<ns2:Password
soapenv:actor = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
soapenv:mustUnderstand = "0"
xsi:type = "soapenc:string"
xmlns:ns2 = "http://localhost/services/Odds"
xmlns:soapenc = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">xxxxx</ns2:Password>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<GetXMLRaggruppamentiEsiti soapenv:encodingStyle = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
How can be solved this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Andrea Tasca

Answer 1

Ok guys I found the solution!
This is the code to add the SOAPHeader Authentication as required by the .NET
web service:
SOAPHeaderElement auth = new SOAPHeaderElement("http://localhost/services/Odds","Authentication");
auth.addChildElement("Username").addTextNode("xxxxx");
auth.addChildElement("Password").addTextNode("xxxxx");
call.addHeader(auth);
So the complete SOAP message will be as follows:
<?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:Header>
<ns1:Authentication
soapenv:actor = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
soapenv:mustUnderstand = "0"
xmlns:ns1 = "http://localhost/services/Odds">
<ns1:Username>xxxxx</ns1:Username>
<ns1:Passsword>xxxxx</ns1:Passsword>
</ns1:Authentication>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<GetXMLRaggruppamentiEsiti soapenv:encodingStyle = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>