Getting Raw XML From SOAPMessage in Java

You could try in this way.

SOAPMessage msg = messageContext.getMessage();ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();msg.writeTo(out);String strMsg = new String(out.toByteArray());

If you have a SOAPMessage or SOAPMessageContext, you can use a Transformer, by converting it to a Source via DOMSource:

            final SOAPMessage message = messageContext.getMessage();            final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();            try {                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer().transform(                    new DOMSource(message.getSOAPPart()),                    new StreamResult(sw));            } catch (TransformerException e) {                throw new RuntimeException(e);            }            // Now you have the XML as a String:            System.out.println(sw.toString());

This will take the encoding into account, so your "special characters" won't get mangled.

It turns out that one can get the raw XML by using Provider<Source>, in this way:

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;import javax.xml.transform.Source;import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;import javax.xml.ws.Provider;import javax.xml.ws.Service;import javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode;import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceProvider;@ServiceMode(value=Service.Mode.PAYLOAD)@WebServiceProvider()public class SoapProvider implements Provider<Source>{    public Source invoke(Source msg)    {        StreamResult sr = new StreamResult();        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();        sr.setOutputStream(out);        try {            Transformer trans = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();            trans.transform(msg, sr);            // Use out to your heart's desire.        }        catch (TransformerException e) {            e.printStackTrace();        }            return msg;    }}

I've ended up not needing this solution, so I haven't actually tried this code myself - it might need some tweaking to get right. But I know this is the right path to go down to get the raw XML from a web service.

(I'm not sure how to make this work if you absolutely must have a SOAPMessage object, but then again, if you're going to be handling the raw XML anyways, why would you use a higher-level object?)