[ODE-1050] Service call fails for http binding with "text/plain" content type

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.6
• Component/s: Axis2 Integration
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Igor Vorobiov
• Created: 31/Mar/16 09:51
• Updated: 31/Mar/16 09:59

Description

There is problem with service call for http binding with "text/plain" content type. Such call fails with following exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The content cannot be null
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity.<init>(StringRequestEntity.java:93)
        at org.apache.ode.axis2.httpbinding.HttpMethodConverter.prepareHttpMethod(HttpMethodConverter.java:214)

It is caused by extract text content directly from partValue but probably should be done for the first child:

org.apache.ode.axis2.httpbinding.HttpMethodConverter

 ...
  } else if (HttpUtils.isXml(contentType)) {
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("Content-Type [" + contentType + "] equivalent to 'text/xml'");
          // stringify the first element
         String xmlString = DOMUtils.domToString(DOMUtils.getFirstChildElement(partValue)); // <--should be like here
         requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(xmlString, contentType, contentCharset);
  } else {
         if (log.isDebugEnabled())
         log.debug("Content-Type [" + contentType + "] NOT equivalent to 'text/xml'. The text content of part value will be sent as text");
         // encoding conversion is managed by StringRequestEntity if necessary
         requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(DOMUtils.getTextContent(partValue), contentType, contentCharset); // <--get content directly
  }
 ...

Attached example with operation name="Hello"