Using JDeveloper HTTP Analyser to intercept/forward requests

In my previous entry I showed how to create a SoapUI test case to do a WS-Adressing driven request-response interaction with an asynchronous BPEL Process. But how does this WS-Adressing request look like?
To get this above the water a tool like the HTTP Analyser of JDeveloper 11g may come in handy.

It is found in the tools option of JDeveloper:

This opens the HTTP Analyser normally at the bottom of the screen:

To use it for our purpose we have to create a HTTP-listener with a forwarding rule. This means that it just listens to request and forwards the request to a URL we provide.
To do this I added a new listener with a new port 8100:

Then click on the "Configure Rules" button, add a forward rule (click on the dropdown triangle of the Add button and choose Forward Rule):

In the reference URL part in the screen above you can put a URL that is used to test the URL Filter.
But after playing around I just left this URL Filter field.

In the Target URL I put the complete URL of the original endpoint of the WSDL from SoapUI, found in the Test Request step in SoapUI. But this one I've replaced by adding a new endpoint:

The added endpoint will have the original URL but with the hostname:port replaced to localhost:8100 (where the HTTP Analyser is listening):

Thus:

http://localhost:8100/soa-infra/services/default/M10HelloWorld/helloworld_client_ep

Then you can run the HTTP Analyser:

I've copied and pasted the message from the screendump into a new XML Document in JDeveloper and reformated it:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
                  xmlns:hel="http://xmlns.oracle.com/M10_Demo/M10HelloWorld/HelloWorld">
   <soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
      <wsa:Action soapenv:mustUnderstand="1">process</wsa:Action>
      <wsa:ReplyTo soapenv:mustUnderstand="1">
         <wsa:Address>http://hostname.darwin-it.nl:8989/HelloWorldCallbackBinding/processResponse</wsa:Address>
      </wsa:ReplyTo>
      <wsa:MessageID soapenv:mustUnderstand="1">uuid:36f10438-0270-4318-a5a5-fd2ad44d6136</wsa:MessageID>
   </soapenv:Header>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <hel:process>
         <hel:input>Astrid</hel:input>
      </hel:process>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Here you can see the properties set in SoapUI (see previous blog in the WSA-header:

• Action - mustUnderstand="1"
• Action (defaulted): process
• ReplyTo - Address: http://hostname.darwin-it.nl:8989/HelloWorldCallbackBinding/processResponse
• MessageID (generated): uuid:36f10438-0270-4318-a5a5-fd2ad44d6136

 Now with this configuration each request to localhost:8100 is forwarded to this process. If you need to support multiple processes different rules should be added or in stead of a forward rule a substitute rule should be applied.

A substitute rule will look like:

 With this each request to localhost:8100 is forwarded to hostname.darwin-it.nl:8001.