GetSOAPRequestHeader

Description

Obtains a SOAP request header. Call only from within a CFC web service function that is processing a request as a SOAP web service.

Returns

A SOAP request header.

History

ColdFusion MX 7: Added this function.

Function syntax

GetSOAPRequestHeader(namespace, name [, asXML])

Parameters

Parameter	Description
namespace	A String that is the namespace for the header.
name	A String that is the name of the header.
asXML	If true, the header is returned as a CFML XML object; if false (default), the header is returned as a Java object.

Usage

If you specify false for the asXML parameter, ColdFusion first attempts to retrieve the header using the data type specified in the header’s xsi:type attribute. If the xsi:type attribute is not available, ColdFusion attempts to retrieve the header as a string. If you specify true for the asXML parameter, ColdFusion retrieves the header as raw XML.This function throws an error if it is invoked in a context that is not a web service request. Use the IsSOAPRequest function to determine whether the CFC is running as a web service.

Example

This example creates a CFC web service that illustrates the operation of the GetSOAPRequestHeader function and also provides a web service that illustrates the operation of other ColdFusion SOAP functions. Save the following code as headerservice.cfc in a folder called soapheaders under your web root. Test its operation, and specifically the operation of the GetSOAPRequestHeader function, by executing the examples that invoke this web service. For example, see the example for AddSOAPRequestHeader.

<h3>GetSOAPRequestHeader Example</h3>
<cfcomponent displayName="tester" hint="Test for SOAP headers">

<cffunction name="echo_me"
access="remote"
output="false"
returntype="string"
displayname="Echo Test" hint="Header test">

<cfargument name="in_here" required="true" type="string">

<cfset isSOAP = isSOAPRequest()>
<cfif isSOAP>


<cfset username = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://mynamespace/", "username")>
<cfset return = "The service saw username: " & username>
<cfset xmlusername = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://mynamespace/", "username", "TRUE")>
<cfset return = return & "<br> as XML: " & xmlusername>


<cfset password = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://mynamespace/", "password")>
<cfset return = return & "The service saw password: " & password>
<cfset xmlpassword = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://mynamespace/", "password", "TRUE")>
<cfset return = return & "<br> as XML: " & xmlpassword>


<cfset addSOAPResponseHeader("http://www.tomj.org/myns", "returnheader", "AUTHORIZED VALUE", false)>


<cfset doc = XmlNew()>
<cfset x = XmlElemNew(doc, "http://www.tomj.org/myns", "returnheader2")>
<cfset x.XmlText = "hey man, here I am in XML">
<cfsetx.XmlAttributes["xsi:type"] = "xsd:string">
<cfset tmp = addSOAPResponseHeader("ignoredNameSpace", "ignoredName", x)>

<cfelse>

<cfset return = "Not invoked as a web service">
</cfif>

<cfreturn return>

</cffunction>

</cfcomponent>