Java Utililty Methods SOAP Message

List of utility methods to do SOAP Message

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Description

The list of methods to do SOAP Message are organized into topic(s).

Method

ListgetNamespaceURIs(SOAPMessage soap)
Returns namespace URIs from a SOAPMessage. 
List<String> nsURIs = new ArrayList<>();
SOAPEnvelope envelope = soap.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
Iterator<?> it = envelope.getNamespacePrefixes();
while (it.hasNext()) {
    nsURIs.add(envelope.getNamespaceURI((String) it.next()));
return nsURIs;
NodegetNode(Node node, String nodeName)
Goes through all the child nodes of the given node and returns the first child that matches the given name. 
for (int i = 0; i < node.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++) {
    if (node.getChildNodes().item(i).getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
            && node.getChildNodes().item(i).getLocalName().equals(nodeName)) {
        return (Node) node.getChildNodes().item(i);
return null;
StringgetPrefix(Name name)
get Prefix 
String prefix = name.getPrefix();
return prefix == null || prefix.length() == 0 ? null : prefix;
StringgetPrefix(String namespaceURI, SOAPElement contextElem)
get Prefix 
Iterator prefixIt = contextElem.getVisibleNamespacePrefixes();
while (prefixIt.hasNext()) {
    String prefix = (String) prefixIt.next();
    if (namespaceURI.equals(contextElem.getNamespaceURI(prefix)))
        return prefix;
return null;
DocumentgetSOAPData(SOAPMessage soapMessage)
Given a SOAPMessage , get the content as a Document 
return soapMessage.getSOAPBody().extractContentAsDocument();
StringgetSoapFaultExceptionMessage(SOAPFaultException sfe)
get Soap Fault Exception Message 
if (sfe.getFault().hasDetail()) {
    return sfe.getFault().getDetail().getFirstChild().getLocalName();
if (sfe.getFault().getFaultString() != null) {
    return "\n Message: " + sfe.getFault().getFaultString();
return sfe.getMessage();
SOAPHeadergetSOAPHeader(SOAPMessageContext smc)
Returns the header. 
return smc.getMessage().getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().getHeader() == null
        ? smc.getMessage().getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().addHeader()
        : smc.getMessage().getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().getHeader();
SOAPHeaderElementgetSOAPHeaderElement(SOAPMessage message, String headerName, String nameSpace)
get SOAP Header Element 
Iterator it = message.getSOAPHeader().examineAllHeaderElements();
while (it.hasNext()) {
    SOAPHeaderElement she = (SOAPHeaderElement) it.next();
    String uri = she.getNamespaceURI();
    String localName = she.getLocalName();
    if (headerName.equals(localName) && nameSpace.equals(uri)) {
        return she;
return null;
DocumentgetSOAPMessage(InputStream in)
A method to get the SOAP message from the input stream. 
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document soapMessage = db.newDocument();
Transformer t = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
t.transform(new StreamSource(in), new DOMResult(soapMessage));
return soapMessage;
SOAPMessagegetSOAPMessage(InputStream is)
Given a stream of SOAPMessage , construct the SOAPMessage 
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
return messageFactory.createMessage(null, is);