Can Feign be configured to work with SOAP web services

[hemchand-guptar]

Currently we are using Feign to connect to REST API's, we have a situation where we need to consume some SOAP web services, I was wondering if this is possible with Feign?

[kdavisk6]

Sounds like an enhancement. Let's flag it.

[kdavisk6]

After looking into this and working with the library, you can certainly use SOAP services. You can use the feign-jaxb library to enable XML encoding and Decoding. Take a look at those.

[icha024]

It needs better support for handling the SOAP header/body and better support for SOAP fault. It's possible to handle all that manually, but then it's very messy and cumbersome in the current state.

[kdavisk6]

It is true that there is built-in support for SOAP constructs, at it's core, SOAP is an XML. The feign-sax and feign-jaxb libraries provide two ways of handling XML requests and responses. There are number of ways you can use JAXB to generate a mappings you need from a WSDL.

That said, we typically do not accept a feature that has been requested only once, but if it gets enough requests, we can reconsider.

[sesamzoo]

+1

[adilcjr]

+1

[bothapn]

+1

[ppalsamy]

+1

[StrawBerryAtWork]

+1

[kdavisk6]

#786

[kdavisk6]

Closed via #786