Thanks Willem for the answer, I'll see if that gets me any further. I am using Camel 2.10.3 for the record. All I want to do is add some elements to an empty SOAP header.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Willem jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > Please see my comments in the below mail. > > -- > Willem Jiang > > Red Hat, Inc. > FuseSource is now part of Red Hat > Web: http://www.fusesource.com | http://www.redhat.com > Blog: http://willemjiang.blogspot.com (http://willemjiang.blogspot.com/) > (English) > http://jnn.iteye.com (http://jnn.javaeye.com/) (Chinese) > Twitter: willemjiang > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > On Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Nico Mommaerts wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I'm having a hard time understanding the dataformats in cxf >> (http://camel.apache.org/cxf.html#CXF-Thedescriptionsofthedataformats) >> and what they are for. >> >> The use case I'm implementing is like the cxf proxy example >> (http://camel.apache.org/cxf-proxy-example.html) except that I want to >> add some Soap Headers to the message that is sent to the real >> webservice. >> I succeeded in doing so by following the example, and getting the >> Header element from the Document passed to my enrichBean. However, I >> don't understand why this works: >> >> * How does Camel know to call which method in the enrichBean and why >> does it know it has to pass a Document? Couldn't find anything on the >> website about this. > > You can change the parameter of the enrichBean as you want. > Camel will try to find a right converter for you. >> * It says here >> http://camel.apache.org/cxf.html#CXF-SOAPheadersarenotavailableinMESSAGEmode >> that SOAP headers are not available in the MESSAGE dataformat, how >> come I can access them and change them before sending to the real >> webservice? > > You will not be able to access the SOAP header from the message header of the > camel message in MESSAGE data format, as the interceptor of handling the SOAP > header will not be called if you use the camel version lower than 2.10.1. > > In the example you are manipulate the DOM tree which is turned from the input > stream, so that is another story. >> * If I try any other dataformat then MESSAGE, it doesn't work. I get a >> 500, or just an empty SOAP response, or a NullpointerException. What >> exactly does the dataformat apply to? The content of the exchange that >> is being sent to the next component in my route? > > It's important for Camel to load right a type converter for you when you > using other data formate. > Please take some time to go through the converters[1] which is used by the > PayLoad data formate . >> * Is this the correct (best) way to add a soapheader? > > It is real depends what's you want to do. > If you don't need to change the soap header much, you can even use the xslt > component[1], it could be more straight for manipulate the underlay input > stream message. > >> >> Thanks, >> Nico > > [1]https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk/components/camel-cxf/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/cxf/converter/CxfPayloadConverter.java > >
