I was looking at various ways how to build a SOAP client with CXF into a Spring Boot application. In particular I'm interested in configuring request/response logging.
Precondition: the CXF Maven plugin is used to generate Java stubs from the WSDL files.
I studied a number of tutorials [1][2][3] and they all do that slightly differently. The question is whether there's an "officially endorsed" way of integrating a CXF client with Spring Boot. The CXF documentation doesn't seem to say.
Option 1: BindingProvider
The existing code I'm working with (not mine) does it like that:
@Bean
public PartnerServicePortType partnerServicePortType() {
PartnerServicePortType partnerServicePortType = new PartnerServiceV0().getPartnerService();
configureService((BindingProvider) partnerServicePortType, Services.PARTNER_SERVICE.serviceName());
return partnerServicePortType;
}
private void configureService(BindingProvider bindingProvider, String path) {
bindingProvider.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, baseUrl + path);
if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(username)) {
bindingProvider.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, username);
bindingProvider.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, password);
}
/* add logging interceptors
Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(bindingProvider);
Endpoint cxfEndpoint = client.getEndpoint();
cxfEndpoint.getInInterceptors().add(new PayloadExtractingLoggingInInterceptor());
cxfEndpoint.getInFaultInterceptors().add(new PayloadExtractingLoggingInInterceptor());
cxfEndpoint.getOutInterceptors().add(new PayloadExtractingLoggingOutInterceptor());
cxfEndpoint.getOutFaultInterceptors().add(new PayloadExtractingLoggingOutInterceptor());
*/
}
PartnerServiceV0 is generated class that extends javax.xml.ws.Service and looks like this:
@WebServiceClient(name = "PartnerService_v0",
wsdlLocation = "classpath:some.wsdl",
targetNamespace = "urn:some-namespace")
public class PartnerServiceV0 extends Service {
As you can see I added the code to enable request/response logging to the configureServcie method. While this does work it feels somewhat odd that we'd have to go through all of that for every service.
Option 2: JaxWsProxyFactoryBean
For verification purposes I ported the above code to using JaxWsProxyFactoryBeans:
@Bean(name = "partnerService")
public PartnerServicePortType generateProxy() {
JaxWsProxyFactoryBean proxyFactory = new JaxWsProxyFactoryBean();
proxyFactory.setServiceClass(PartnerServicePortType.class);
proxyFactory.setAddress(baseUrl + Services.PARTNER_SERVICE.serviceName());
if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(username)) {
proxyFactory.setUsername(username);
proxyFactory.setPassword(password);
}
return (PartnerServicePortType) proxyFactory.create();
}
Adding logging config is something I'd still have to figure out with this strategy.
Tutorials I checked