Kie :: Camel - ClassCast exception in PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor class ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: DROOLS-437 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-437 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 6.0.1.Final Environment: java version "1.7.0_51" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode) on application server: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" running on: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise Reporter: Jurij Kovacic Assignee: Edson Tirelli Labels: apache, camel Fix For: 6.1.0.Beta4 After sending a test SOAP request to (compiled) "Drools Camel server example" from "droolsjbpm-integration-master/drools-camel-server-example", running on JBoss7 application server, the following exception occurs: ... java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapMessage cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.kie.jax.soap.PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor.process(PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor.java:36) [kie-camel-6.0.1.Final.jar:6.0.1.Final] ... I used the following patch (hack), to make the example work: diff --git a/kie-camel/src/main/java/org/kie/jax/soap/PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor.java b/kie-camel/src/main/java/or index c646f97..39e2afc 100644 --- a/kie-camel/src/main/java/org/kie/jax/soap/PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor.java +++ b/kie-camel/src/main/java/org/kie/jax/soap/PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor.java @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ public class PreCxfTransportSoapProcessor Map<String, Object> headers = exchange.getIn().getHeaders(); MimeHeaders mimeHeaders = new MimeHeaders(); for ( String header : headers.keySet() ) { - mimeHeaders.addHeader( header, - (String) headers.get( header ) ); + // hack for avoiding uncaught exceptions when SOAP message is typecast to string + try { mimeHeaders.addHeader( header, (String) headers.get( header ) );} + catch(ClassCastException e){} + } SOAPMessage soapMessage = MessageFactory.newInstance().createMessage( mimeHeaders, is ); It seems to me that the call to: ... exchange.getIn().getHeaders() ... apart from valid MIME headers, such as host, content-type etc also (wrongly?) returns the entire SOAP request object, which then cannot be typecast to string.