How can I read SOAP-Headers and add FaultHeaders to a response sent by an AXIS 2 Web Service - soap

Question

I have a WSDL that defines a custom SOAP-header that the client needs to send and a SOAP-Fault header that the server could send as a response.
Now I have a problem. I cannot for the life of me fathom how to set SOAP-Fault-headers on a response generated with AXIS 2 (Version 1.6.1) or read SOAP-Headers that come with a request.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

If is security related you should look to Rampart.
If not, try looking into
ClientSide:
From your stub, retrieve the ServiceClient via _getServiceClient().
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ServerSide:
If I recall correctly is done via MessageContext, so from axiscontext opbtain current message context.

Answer 2

Add custom fault to soap response. This can be done in one of two ways.
1) Simply throwing a Java exception with a message will generate a simple Axis2 fault
Example:
throw new java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException("Please implement " +
this.getClass().getName() + "#SomeOperationName");
Also please note: If you generated your service using the Axis2 WSDL2JAVA utility, the line above will be added to the MyServiceName_Skeleton source for each defined WSDL Operation.
Once the .aar is deployed, connectivity to each operation can be verified using a web browser, e.g. https://server:port/axis2/services/MyServiceName?SomeOperationName.
2) Ensure that the WSDL defines an optional (occurs:0) custom Fault structure. This can be sent to client with any other required (and empty) elements.
Example:
com.some.service.operation.SomeOperationNameResponse_Type OPRT = new com.some.service.operation.SomeOperationNameResponse_Type();
com.some.service.SomeOperationNameResponse OPR = new com.some.service.SomeOperationNameResponse();
.
.
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if ((rcStatusString.equals("Succeeded")) || (rcStatusString.equals("Warning"))) {
<build happy path response>
} else if (rcStatusString.equals("Failed")) {
final MYFault fault = new MYFault();
final MYFault_Type faultType = new MYFault_Type();
final MYFaultList faultList = new MYFaultList();
final MYFaultList_Type faultListType = new MYFaultList_Type();
faultType.setFaultCode("10100");
faultType.setFaultSubcode("9999");
faultType.setFaultType(FaultType_Enum.SYSTEM);
faultType.setFaultReasonText("Some Operation Failed");
faultType.setSeverity(FaultSeverity_Enum.CRITICAL_ERROR);
//fault.setMYFault(faultType);
faultListType.addMYFault(faultType);
OTHRTYPE.setAValue("");
OPRT.setAValueType(OTHRTYPE);
OPRT.setMYFaultList(faultListType);
} else {
throw new java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException(
"MYSERVICE: [Some Operation] Session: "+sessVal+" Request ID: "+rcRequestId+" Unrecognized Completion Status ["+rcStatusString+"]");
}
OPR.setSomeOperationResponse(OPRT);
return OPR;
}