SOAP request configuration (namespaces)

Question

Hi there,
I am trying to consume a web service via CAF/Netweaver which requests a certain name space. here an extract of the wsdl.
- <wsdl:types>
- <s:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://www.serviceobjects.com/">
- <s:element name="GetAddressPlus">
- <s:complexType>
- <s:sequence>
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Address" type="s:string" />
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Address2" type="s:string" />
Unfortunately, the SOAP request which gets created by the Netweaver SOAP adapter (which is correct) can't be understood by the service provider (see pns:GetAddressPlus)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <pns:GetAddressPlus xmlns:pns="http://www.serviceobjects.com/">
      <pns:Address>1016 Poplar Drive</pns:Address>
      <pns:City>Collierville</pns:City>
      <pns:State>TN</pns:State>
      <pns:PostalCode>38017</pns:PostalCode>
For the service to work properly, the namespace shall not be attached to the parameters, but just added to the parent element of the message, see below (only GetAddressPlus, no leading namespace)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <GetAddressPlus xmlns="http://www.serviceobjects.com/">
      <Address>1016 Poplar Drive</Address>
      <City>Collierville</City>
      <State>TN</State>
      <PostalCode>38017</PostalCode>
Is there a workaround to configure the SOAP generation in such a way, that no namespaces are used within the SOAP message ?
Thx, Nick
Edited by: Nick Laqua on Aug 10, 2009 9:00 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
Using SOAP UI  you can type whatever you want to type in request page (SOAP Message), Do not type in form but in xml.
So in first attempt type SOAP Message with prefix,
in Second attempt modify SOAP request without prefix manually.
Please post error message (as you said "that the request can't have zero length") this means Service is not receiving request at all, else message should be about "Not well formed" message.
I believe that this error is not really related to formatting of request and namespace
Please try it with SOAP UI.
Regards,
Gourav