Table of Contents

• Run Soap Webservice
• Run WebClient example
• Test
• Test with Soap Header

This guide helps you run Spring WebFlux example to call SOAP services.

Run Soap Webservice

Use Java 1.8 for build and run

git clone https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-soap-service.git
cd gs-soap-service/complete
mvn clean install
java -Dserver.port=8081 -jar target/producing-web-service-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Run WebClient example

git clone https://github.com/gungor/spring-webclient-soap.git
cd spring-webclient-soap
mvn clean install
java -jar target/spring-webclient-soap-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Test

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/countrydetails/Poland
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/countrydetails/Spain

Test with Soap Header

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/countrydetailsWithHeader/Poland
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/countrydetailsWithHeader/Spain

You can track the log to see whether soap header prepared and sent correctly to WS. A request example is as below:

|00000000| 3c 53 4f 41 50 2d 45 4e 56 3a 45 6e 76 65 6c 6f |<SOAP-ENV:Envelo|
|00000010| 70 65 20 78 6d 6c 6e 73 3a 53 4f 41 50 2d 45 4e |pe xmlns:SOAP-EN|
|00000020| 56 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 73 63 68 65 6d 61 |V="http://schema|
|00000030| 73 2e 78 6d 6c 73 6f 61 70 2e 6f 72 67 2f 73 6f |s.xmlsoap.org/so|
|00000040| 61 70 2f 65 6e 76 65 6c 6f 70 65 2f 22 3e 3c 53 |ap/envelope/"><S|
|00000050| 4f 41 50 2d 45 4e 56 3a 48 65 61 64 65 72 3e 3c |OAP-ENV:Header><|
|00000060| 61 75 74 3a 75 73 65 72 6e 61 6d 65 50 61 73 73 |aut:usernamePass|
|00000070| 77 6f 72 64 20 78 6d 6c 6e 73 3a 61 75 74 3d 22 |word xmlns:aut="|
|00000080| 41 75 74 68 65 6e 74 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 22 20 |Authentication" |
|00000090| 61 75 74 3a 70 61 73 73 77 6f 72 64 3d 22 70 77 |aut:password="pw|
|000000a0| 22 20 61 75 74 3a 75 73 65 72 3d 22 74 65 73 74 |" aut:user="test|
|000000b0| 22 2f 3e 3c 2f 53 4f 41 50 2d 45 4e 56 3a 48 65 |"/></SOAP-ENV:He|
|000000c0| 61 64 65 72 3e 3c 53 4f 41 50 2d 45 4e 56 3a 42 |ader><SOAP-ENV:B|
|000000d0| 6f 64 79 3e 3c 6e 73 32 3a 67 65 74 43 6f 75 6e |ody><ns2:getCoun|
|000000e0| 74 72 79 52 65 71 75 65 73 74 20 78 6d 6c 6e 73 |tryRequest xmlns|
|000000f0| 3a 6e 73 32 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 73 70 72 |:ns2="http://spr|
|00000100| 69 6e 67 2e 69 6f 2f 67 75 69 64 65 73 2f 67 73 |ing.io/guides/gs|
|00000110| 2d 70 72 6f 64 75 63 69 6e 67 2d 77 65 62 2d 73 |-producing-web-s|
|00000120| 65 72 76 69 63 65 22 3e 3c 6e 73 32 3a 6e 61 6d |ervice"><ns2:nam|
|00000130| 65 3e 53 70 61 69 6e 3c 2f 6e 73 32 3a 6e 61 6d |e>Spain</ns2:nam|
|00000140| 65 3e 3c 2f 6e 73 32 3a 67 65 74 43 6f 75 6e 74 |e></ns2:getCount|
|00000150| 72 79 52 65 71 75 65 73 74 3e 3c 2f 53 4f 41 50 |ryRequest></SOAP|
|00000160| 2d 45 4e 56 3a 42 6f 64 79 3e 3c 2f 53 4f 41 50 |-ENV:Body></SOAP|
|00000170| 2d 45 4e 56 3a 45 6e 76 65 6c 6f 70 65 3e       |-ENV:Envelope>  |

Watch logs of spring-webclient-soap, it retrieves country details and logs capital. You can see how it works here: https://gungor.github.io/article/2020/08/23/soap-call-with-spring-webflux.html