I've written two WSIF clients, one dynamic and the other a stub version, that call the same existing web service on my Intranet. The service is implemented using Apache SOAP. Both clients are using a soap provider. The stub client returns this error:
org.apache.wsif.WSIFException: org.apache.wsif.soap.fault.object:Content length
must be specified.
at org.apache.wsif.base.WSIFClientProxy.invoke(Unknown Source)
at $Proxy0.getMembershipDetails(Unknown Source)
at client.RunStubSOAP.main(Unknown Source)
The dynamic client returns a similar error of "content length must be specified". Using other, non-WSIF clients show the web service is running fine, without errors.
I'm monitoring what's traveling over the wire. I see that "content-length" is set in the HTTP header, in both directions. (I'm assuming this is what content length is referring to.) The body of the response looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Protocol</faultcode>
<faultstring>Content length must be specified.</faultstring>
<faultactor>/MemberWebService/servlet/rpcrouter</faultactor>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Thinking that Axis running client-side and SOAP running server-side could be a problem, I set WSIFPluggableProviders.overrideDefaultProvider(...), but this didn't seem to make any difference. As a matter of fact, it seems to be having no affect at all, because the "User-Agent" header still says "Axis/1.0" in the request header. Is there another way to force the default provider to Apache SOAP?
In the request body I see a "multiref" element and I'm wondering if that's the "content length" problem. Does Apache SOAP understand multirefs?
Any help/hints would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
David
