mule-invoke-soap-via-http-request

Typical way to consume a SOAP web service in Mule is using Consume component in Web Service Consumer module. But sometimes you can't. This is an alternate way to do that using HTTP Request component

1. One of the issues you may run into is WSDLs coded with RPC-style. You will see an error like this:

   Error trying to acquire a new connection:The provided WSDL is RPC style, RPC WSDLs are not supported

2. On one occasion, when I mapped SOAP body using transform and invoked Consume, for some reason request got transmitted to the provider with "" inside the envelope but over the body and provider system did not like it.

Something like shown below:

     <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:jpas="http://test.namspace.org/">
     <soapenv:Header/>
     <soapenv:Body>
        <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>   <--------
        <jpas:request>...</jpas:request>
     </soapenv:Body>
     </soap:Envelope>

Since underlying protocol is HTTP even for SOAP request, we can use HTTP Request to invoke a SOAP web service call. It's typical HTTP Request configuration except, most importantly, it needs a header "Content-Type" : "text/xml" for this to work.

It has couple of endpoints.

1. /soap-via-consume (You can invoke this to see the error you would run into with RPC-styled WSDLs. This is using Consume component.

2. /soap-via-http (This is the one using HTTP Request)

Request XML: https://github.com/srkomma/mule-invoke-soap-via-http-request/blob/master/src/test/resources/request.xml