How to add child elements in Soap Request XML using Java SAAJ

Question

I want to add the child element(Identifier) in the body of the Soap Request as below:

Expected Soap Request

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:ns="nsurl">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
  <ns:GetRequest>
     <ns:Identifier Type="x" Value="y"/>      
  </ns:GetRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

With my code I am able to add the child element(Identifier) as below:

Actual Soap Request

 <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:ns="nsurl">
 <soapenv:Header/>
 <soapenv:Body>
  <ns:GetRequest>
     <ns:Identifier>Type="x" Value="y"</ns:Identifier>      
  </ns:GetRequest>
 </soapenv:Body>
 </soapenv:Envelope>

And here is the java code:

    private static void createSoapEnvelope(SOAPMessage soapMessage) throws SOAPException {
    SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();

    String myNamespace = "ns";
    String myNamespaceURI = "nsurl";

    // SOAP Envelope
    SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
    envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration(myNamespace, myNamespaceURI);


    // SOAP Body
    SOAPBody soapBody = envelope.getBody();

    SOAPElement soapBodyElem = soapBody.addChildElement("GetRequest", myNamespace);

    SOAPElement soapBodyElem1 =soapBodyElem.addChildElement("Identifier", myNamespace);
    soapBodyElem1.addTextNode("Type=\"x\" Value=\"y\"");


}

Answer 1

It appears that you are using SoapUI tool.

You could use Groovy Script test step with below script to change the same.

def xmlString = """ <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="nsurl">  <soapenv:Header/>  <soapenv:Body>   <ns:GetRequest>      <ns:Identifier>Type="x" Value="y"</ns:Identifier>         </ns:GetRequest>  </soapenv:Body>  </soapenv:Envelope>"""
def xml = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xmlString)
//Get the Identifier node
def identifier = xml.'**'.find{it.name() == 'Identifier'}

//Create a map based on Identifier node value
def map = identifier.text().split(' ').collectEntries{ [(it.split('=')[0]) : it.split('=')[1].replace('"','')]}

//Remove the text value for Identifier node
identifier.replaceBody { '' }

//Set the attributes from the map
map.each{k,v -> identifier.@"$k" = v}
def newXml = groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize(xml)
log.info newXml

You can quickly try it online demo

Answer 2

In the expected request, Type and Value are attributes, not part of the content of the ns:Identifier element. Therefore you need to use SAAJ's addAttribute (or DOM's setAttributeNS) method to add them.