Extract cookies from SOAP response using AXIS2

Question

I am consuming a third party webservice using AXIS2 stub. The primary method which I use works FINE and has below signature:

boolean isValidUser(username, password);

The webservice is supposed to return a String (token) in the response headers as cookie :- WSToken

But I cannot find ANY method to extract the headers and cookies from the response. In fact there is no HTTPResponse object to fetch the cookies !.

I have tried this code:

MessageContext context = stub._getServiceClient().getLastOperationContext().getMessageContext(WSDLConstants.MESSAGE_LABEL_IN_VALUE);
Object response = context.getProperty("response");

But it returns a null value as there is no such property in the context. The context has below properties:

transport.http.statusCode
CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING
TRANSPORT_HEADERS
org.apache.axiom.om.util.DetachableInputStream
messageType
ContentType
TRANSPORT_IN

How can I get the cookie called 'WSToken' from the response using the stub ?

Answer 1

The TRANSPORT_HEADERS property should give you the HTTP headers you got. You can then look for Set-Cookie headers.