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9 years ago

Sending a request as "multipart/related"

Hi,

I have a requirement to send a multipart SOAP message, with attachment, to a HTTP endpoint as POST.

The endpoint I am sending to requires I use the multipart/related Content-Type header (as per https://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments)

The headers created by SoapUI are

POST http://localhost:8280/dri HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary="----=_Part_13_1478701338.1472550054487"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Length: 4534
Host: localhost:8280
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

And this throws an error, because SOAPMessage (http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/xml/soap/SOAPMessage.html) requires the header to be multipart/related in order to parse the message.

So I require SoapUI to either allow me to use multipart/related or allow me to manually edit the Content-Type header after the request has been created (changing multipart/form-data to multipart/related is all I need to change)

Is there any help or workaround you can offer me?

Thanks & Regards,

Dave

nmrao
Champion Level 3
9 years ago
Please see if the below documentation links of help.

https://www.soapui.org/rest-testing/working-with-rest-requests.html

https://www.soapui.org/soap-and-wsdl/headers-and-attachments.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12467901/soapui-multipart-form-data-rest-request-with-file-attachments
- maddzy
  Occasional Contributor
  9 years ago
  Thanks Rao,
  
  I am already familiar with how to add attachments and headers in SoapUI.
  
  My question is "Is there a workaround to let me use the multipart/related Content-Type header in SoapUI?"
  
  The only multipart headers SoapUI provides is multipart/form-data and multipart/mixed.
  
  Any help is appreciated,
  
  Dave
  - OriginalName3
    Occasional Visitor
    9 years ago
    I ran into the same issue with a previous project of mine. What I ended up doing was abandoning SoapUI and testing through a local Java Application I created. Sadly it was the only way I could find to move forward.
    
    That being said, I absolutely loved using SoapUI and was really surprised to find this isn't possible. I hope this gets fixed because I'd like to use it again in future projects.