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Setting Credentials in CXF (or other java) clients

antani — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:41:42 GMT

I am trying to invoke WFA Webservices from java using CXF. After generating JAX-WS stubs, the call is straight-forward.

public class WFAServiceTestClient {
    private static final QName SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://ws.wfa.netapp.com/","WorkflowService");
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        URL wsdlURL=null;
        try {
             wsdlURL = new URL( "http://10.72.64.247/wfa-ws/WorkflowService_doc?wsdl");
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }        
        WorkflowService ss = new WorkflowService(wsdlURL, SERVICE_NAME);
        WorkflowServiceDoc port = ss.getWorkflowServiceDocPort();
        // Set request context property.
        java.util.Map<String, Object> requestContext = ((javax.xml.ws.BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext();
        requestContext.put("ws-security.username", "admin");
        requestContext.put("ws-security.password", "admin");
        List returnList = port.getAllWorkflows();         
    }
}

But this code does not set the correct credentials and the call fails with :

com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.ClientTransportException: The server sent HTTP status code 401: Unauthorized

What should be the correct method of setting the credentials ? I tried setting up a callback handler as per WS-Security UsernameToken spec 1.0, but it seems that WFA is not using it.

My request (from wireshark sniff) -

<?xml version="1.0" ?><S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><S:Body><ns2:getAllWorkflows xmlns:ns2="http://ws.wfa.netapp.com/"/></S:Body></S:Envelope>

Re: Setting Credentials in CXF (or other java) clients

yakobi — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:38:54 GMT

You should be using the AuthorizationPolicy capability as illustrated below:

 private JaxWsDynamicClientFactory dcf = JaxWsDynamicClientFactory.newInstance();
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client = dcf.createClient(wsdlUrl);

AuthorizationPolicy authorization = ((HTTPConduit) client.getConduit()).getAuthorization();
authorization.setUserName(userName);
authorization.setPassword(password);
client.getRequestContext().put("javax.xml.ws.client.receiveTimeout", TIMEOUT_MS);// 120 seconds
client.getRequestContext().put("javax.xml.ws.client.connectionTimeout", TIMEOUT_MS);// 120 seconds
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client.invoke(operationName, params)

Setting Credentials in CXF (or other java) clients

antani — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:13:53 GMT

Thanks, is there some sample code that I can take a look at ?

Re: Setting Credentials in CXF (or other java) clients

yakobi — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:19:04 GMT

Following is the class we use internally for testing:

/**
 * Note that in order for this wrapper to run from TeamCity, the agent must have in its environment:<ul>
 * <li> path=%path%;c:\work\tools\jdk\bin
 * <li> JAVA_HOME=c:\work\tools\JDK
 * </ul>
 * Also, the "maven runner" should be configured to use JAVA_HOME.
 * See http://garygregory.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/fixing-cxf-java-lang-illegalstateexception-unable-to-create-jaxbcontext-for-generated-packages/
 */
public class WebServiceWrapper {
    private static final String TIMEOUT_MS = "120000";
    private JaxWsDynamicClientFactory dcf = JaxWsDynamicClientFactory.newInstance();
    private String hostIp;
    private String userName;
    private String password;
    private Map<String, CachedClient> clientCache = new HashMap<String, CachedClient>();
    public WebServiceWrapper(String hostIp, String userName, String password) {
        this.hostIp = hostIp;
        this.userName = userName;
        this.password = password;
    }
    public Object[] invokeWebService(String serviceName, String operationName, Object... params) {
        ClassLoader prevClassLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        CachedClient cachedClient = getClient("http://" + hostIp + "/wfa-ws/" + serviceName + "?wsdl");
        try {
            return cachedClient.client.invoke(operationName, params);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new EndToEndException("Web-service invocation failed invoking " + serviceName + "." + operationName, e);
        } finally {
            // Restore the original class loader
            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(prevClassLoader);
        }
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "WebServiceWrapper{" +
                "hostIp='" + hostIp + '\'' +
                ", userName='" + userName + '\'' +
                ", password='" + password + '\'' +
                '}';
    }
    public String getHostIp() {
        return hostIp;
    }
    Map<String, CachedClient> getClientCache() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(clientCache);
    }
    private CachedClient getClient(String wsdlUrl) {
        CachedClient cachedClient = clientCache.get(wsdlUrl);
        if (cachedClient == null) {
            cachedClient = new CachedClient(dcf.createClient(wsdlUrl));
            cachedClient.classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
            AuthorizationPolicy authorization = ((HTTPConduit) cachedClient.client.getConduit()).getAuthorization();
            authorization.setUserName(userName);
            authorization.setPassword(password);
            cachedClient.client.getRequestContext().put("javax.xml.ws.client.receiveTimeout", TIMEOUT_MS);// 120 seconds
            cachedClient.client.getRequestContext().put("javax.xml.ws.client.connectionTimeout", TIMEOUT_MS);// 120 seconds
            clientCache.put(wsdlUrl, cachedClient);
        }
        else {
            // for existing client, restore's the client's class loader
            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(cachedClient.classLoader);
        }
        return cachedClient;
    }
    public class CachedClient {
        Client client;
        ClassLoader classLoader;
        public CachedClient(Client client) {
            this.client = client;
        }
        public Client getClient() {
            return client;
        }
    }
}

Example for using this utility:

webServiceWrapper = new WebServiceWrapper("10.68.66.170", "admin", "<some password>");
webServiceWrapper.invokeWebService("ValidationService", "validateConfiguration");