[jbossws-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBWS-2157) Child nodes truncated when using jaxb to marshall data into a SOAP header

Child nodes truncated when using jaxb to marshall data into a SOAP header -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBWS-2157 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-2157 Project: JBoss Web Services Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: jbossws-native Affects Versions: jbossws-native-3.0.1 Reporter: Andrew Dinn Fix For: jbossws-native-4.0.1 I wish to serialise a CoordinationContext type (a complex type defined in the OASIS WS-COOR 1.1 spec) into a SOAP message header as follows: <code> final JAXBContext jaxbCtx = getJaxbContext(); final SOAPMessage soapMessage = context.getMessage(); final SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapMessage.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope(); SOAPHeader soapHeader = soapEnvelope.getHeader() ; if (soapHeader == null) { soapHeader = soapEnvelope.addHeader() ; } Marshaller marshaller = jaxbCtx.createMarshaller(); marshaller.marshal(coordinationContext, soapHeader); </code> The problem is that the header gets inserted without any children. What happens is that the marshaller creates a SOAP tree top down consisting of SOAPElementImpl instances. It inserts these nodes into the tree below the SOAPHeader as it creates them. So, when the first node is created a call to SOAPHeader.addchild() is made. This call deteccts that the supplied node is of the wrong type so it substitutes a SOAPHeaderElementImpl. It attempts to copy the supplied node's substructure but the marshaller has not created the children at this point.