Re: SOAP message with Attachment

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabsaga Tata" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: SOAP message with Attachment


> I am using Apache Axis 1.2 / Tomcat 4
> Is it possible for a client application to get back data as MIME attachment from a web service?
> From the example code snippets below, the service successfully attaches a file to a SOAP message
> but when the client application tries to get the attachments count, it is zero. Any ideas why?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gabsaga
> 
> 
> ********************************************************
> Code snippet for MyMessageService message-style service.
> ********************************************************
> MessageContext msgCntxt = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
> SOAPMessage msg = msgCntxt.getMessage();
> DataHandler dataHander = new DataHandler(new FileDataSource("C:\\<tomcat_directory>\\webapps\\axis\\WEB-INF\\attachments\\res_message.xml"));
> AttachmentPart attachment = msg.createAttachmentPart(dataHander);
> attachment.setContentId("attached_processed_file");
> msg.addAttachmentPart(attachment);
> 
> ********************************************************
> Code snippet for Client application sending request to 
> MyMessageService message-style service.
> ********************************************************
> SOAPConnection conn = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance().createConnection();
> SOAPMessage response = conn.call(message, "http://localhost/axis/services/MyMessageService"); 
> 
> 
> SOAPPart responseSp = response.getSOAPPart();
> SOAPEnvelope responseSe = responseSp.getEnvelope();
> SOAPBody responseBody = responseSe.getBody();
> 
> //Get attached message
> if(!responseBody.hasFault())
> {
>  int numOfAttachments = response.countAttachments();
>  System.out.println("\n\nNumber of attachments in message = " + numOfAttachments);
> }
> 
> 
>