Soap handler to process header before policy authentication

Question

I have a web service secured with WSSE Security. One of the web service client is using a custom security header instead of the standard WSSE Security header, so my web service fails authenticating the request. Can I write a soap handler to intercept the header before policy authentication, and modify the header to add the WSSE Security header so it can be authenticated?

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your response. Yes, I was trying to cast the elements returned from
examineHeaderElements to SOAPHeaderElement. This was throwing a ClassCastException.
Now, I am using
soapHeader.getChildElements(nodeName)
This seems to work fine. Where I created the nodeName through SOAPEnvelope's createNode()
method. Don't know what the original problem was. But, now I avoided using that
API. Will let you know if I get any more information.
Regards,
Adam
"Michael Wooten" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi Adam,
The java.util.Iterator returned from the examineHeaderElements() method,
should
contain javax.xml.soap.SOAPHeaderElement objects. Is that what you are
trying
to cast to?
Regards,
Mike Wooten
"Adam Athimuthu" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I am getting a ClassCastException when trying to process the SOAPHeader
in a SOAP
handler. I tried the following...inside the handleRequest(MessageContext
context)
method:
SOAPPart soapPart=null;
SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope=null;
SOAPHeader soapHeader=null;
SOAPMessageContext soapContext=(SOAPMessageContext) context;
System.out.println("handleRequest");
SOAPMessage soapMessage=soapContext.getMessage();
System.out.println("SOAPMessage: "+soapMessage.toString());
try
soapPart=soapMessage.getSOAPPart();
soapEnvelope=soapPart.getEnvelope();
soapHeader=soapEnvelope.getHeader();
System.out.println("SOAPHeader: "+soapHeader.toString());
soapHeader.addTextNode("CustomNode");
Iterator allHeaders=soapHeader.examineHeaderElements("http://someuri.com");
The examineHeaderElements throws a ClassCastException, no matter what
method gets
invoked on the soapHeader object. I tried casting this to the weblogic.webservice.core....
implemented objects. The result is the same.
I appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Adam
Athi D. Athimuthu