JAX-WS Webservice Class initialisation block in a

Question

A bit of newbie on Webservices, but here's a tricky one I'm struggling with finding a better way to implement. See code below: instead of having to invoke the setClientIPAddress method on each webservice method, is there a way of doing this just once ? ie I tried the following:

// initialisation block
{
   WSBean wsBean = new WSBean();
   wsBean.setClientIPAddress(getClientIPAdd);

}

this compiles ok but I get a runtime error. Webservice class doesn't seem to like the initialisation block.

@javax.jws.WebService(targetNamespace = "http://baseentity.com/", serviceName = "WSBeanService", portName = "WSBeanPort", wsdlLocation = "WEB-INF/wsdl/WSBeanService.wsdl")
public class WSBeanDelegate {

    WSBean wsBean = new WSBean();

    public String getBaseInfoList(String baseID) {
      wsBean.setClientIPAddress(getClientIPAdd); // 
        return wsBean.getBaseInfoList(transactionID);
    }

    public String getBaseEntityInfo(String entityID) {
      wsBean.setClientIPAddress(getClientIPAdd);
        return wsBean.getBaseEntityInfo(entityID);
    }

    @WebMethod 
      private String getClientIPAdd()
      {
        MessageContext mc = this.wsContext.getMessageContext();

        HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest)mc.get("javax.xml.ws.servlet.request");
        return req.getRemoteAddr();
      }

I've tried using @PostContruct, as shown below:

 @PostContruct
        private void init()
        {
              wsBean.setClientIPAddress(getClientIPAdd);
        }

but i get the following error: "illegalaccessexception with modifiers private".

However, declaring the method as public also requires defining the same method in the bean/wsdl file, which is not i want do do. Any suggestions on how to better this code?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try:

@PostContruct
@javax.jws.WebMethod(exclude=true)
public void init()
{
    wsBean.setClientIPAddress(getClientIPAdd);
}