Friday, July 15, 2011

Using ws-adressing to callback to another process.

Scenario :
1. Service-A.
2. Service-B.
3. Service-C ("Asynchronous request-response" service )

Service C is a legacy service that takes an input from a client , process it and then response back to the same client (by default ). However your business is in such a way that your response should not go to the initial caller(Service-A) but to another process(Service-B). Depicted below is the same:



For this , you may need to tweak the SOAP Headers / WS-Adressing properties by sending the WSA ReplyTo to the Service-C's URI in the call from Service-A to Service-C.


ie., The Service-C's input looks like this:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<span style="font-weight:bold;"> <soap:Header xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/addressing">
<ns1:MessageID>ws:uniqueAddress</ns1:MessageID>
<ns1:ReplyTo>
<ns1:Address>http://localhost:8001/soa-infra/services/default/SOATestProject/ServiceB?WSDL</ns1:Address>
</ns1:ReplyTo>
</soap:Header>
</span> <soap:Body xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/TestApplication_jws/SOATestProject/MyAsynchronousService">
<ns1:process>
<ns1:input>Order123</ns1:input>
</ns1:process>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

As you see we give the Service-B's WSDL(http://localhost:8001/soa-infra/services/default/SOATestProject/ServiceB?WSDL) in the Reply To tag.

However care has to be taken while creating Service B that you use the same port type and message types that Service C uses to callback. Otherwise you may end up with exception : javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: oracle.fabric.common.FabricException: Unable to find operation: null

Conclusion:


Not changing your legacy Asynchronous request/response service,you can route the call back response to another service apart from the caller using WS-Addressing.

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