Springboot SOAP service unmarshalling Issue with the response from WebServiceTemplate

I am really bugged with an unmarshalling issue with the response from the SOAP service. I am using springboot application and WebServiceTemplate for calling an existing SOAP service. I am using below code to set up beans for marshalling and webservicetemplate. Any help is highly appreciated.

On calling webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(request); I am expecting TravelResponse object but it is giving me JAXBElement<TravelResponse> object as response. I need help to understand
1) why is it giving above response instead of TravelResponse
2) How to convert to TravelResponse

webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(request);

TravelResponse object

JAXBElement<TravelResponse> object

TravelResponse

TravelResponse

Code snippet below:

@Bean
Jaxb2Marshaller jaxb2Marshaller() {
Jaxb2Marshaller jaxb2Marshaller = new Jaxb2Marshaller();
jaxb2Marshaller.setContextPath("com.cater.trip.simple_api.trip.v1");
return jaxb2Marshaller;
}

@Bean
public WebServiceTemplate webServiceTemplate() throws Exception {
WebServiceTemplate webServiceTemplate = new WebServiceTemplate();
webServiceTemplate.setMessageFactory(getMessageFactory());
webServiceTemplate.setMarshaller(jaxb2Marshaller());
webServiceTemplate.setUnmarshaller(jaxb2Marshaller());
webServiceTemplate.setDefaultUri(defaultUri);
webServiceTemplate.setMessageSender(getMessageSender());
return webServiceTemplate;
}

@Bean
public SaajSoapMessageFactory getMessageFactory() {
return new SaajSoapMessageFactory();
}

@Bean
public HttpComponentsMessageSender getMessageSender() {
return new HttpComponentsMessageSender();
}


@Override
public Object getData( ) {
ObjectFactory clientFac = new ObjectFactory();
TravelRequest request = populateRequest(clientFac);
TravelResponse res = (TravelResponse) webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(request);
return res;
}


2 Answers
2

As per Spring's documentation, WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive() returns non-unmarshalled response.

WebServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive()

So, you can do this to return the expected response.

JAXBElement<TravelResponse> res = (JAXBElement<TravelResponse>) webServiceTemplate.marshalSendAndReceive(request);

return res.getValue();


Try JaxbIntrospector.getValue to get the actual response from JAXB element.

TravelResponse response = JaxbIntrospector.getValue(jaxbElement);

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