Soap request Message part was not recognized

Question

When I send a request to my webservice (build with apache camel and running on apache karaf) I always get

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
 <soap:Body>
  <soap:Fault>
     <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
     <faultstring>Message part {http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput}input was not recognized.  (Does it exist in service WSDL?)</faultstring>
  </soap:Fault>
 </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

My wsdl looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:tns="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput">

<!-- Type definitions for input- and output parameters for webservice -->
<wsdl:types>
    <xs:schema targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput">
        <xs:element name="input">
            <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:element type="xs:string" name="surname"/>
                </xs:sequence>
            </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <xs:element name="output">
            <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:element type="xs:string" name="forename"/>
                </xs:sequence>
            </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
    </xs:schema>
</wsdl:types>

<!-- Message definitions for input and output -->
<wsdl:message name="input">
    <wsdl:part name="surname" element="tns:input"/>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="output">
    <wsdl:part name="forename" element="tns:output"/>
</wsdl:message>

<!-- Port (interface) definitions -->
<wsdl:portType name="InputOutputEndpoint">
    <wsdl:operation name="InputOutput">
        <wsdl:input message="tns:input"/>
        <wsdl:output message="tns:output"/>
    </wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>

<!-- Port bindings to transports and encoding - HTTP, document literal encoding is used -->
<wsdl:binding name="InputOutputBinding" type="tns:InputOutputEndpoint">
    <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <wsdl:operation name="InputOutput">
        <soap:operation soapAction="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput" style="document"/>
        <wsdl:input>
            <soap:body parts="in" use="literal"/>
        </wsdl:input>
        <wsdl:output>
            <soap:body parts="out" use="literal"/>
        </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>

<!-- Service definition -->
<wsdl:service name="InputOutputEndpointService">
    <wsdl:port name="InputOutputEndpoint" binding="tns:InputOutputBinding">
        <soap:address location="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput"/>
    </wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>

And this is my request in SoapUI

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"    xmlns:rep="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
  <rep:input>
    <surname>test</surname>
  </rep:input>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I can't find anything wrong in my wsdl here. Anyone got an idea what leads to this?

Answer 1

I think the problem is that the target namespace in the wsdl and the one in the schema are the same:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:tns="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput">

<!-- Type definitions for input- and output parameters for webservice -->
<wsdl:types>
    <xs:schema targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput">
...

And then in the message part when you use the 'tns' prefix in tns:input it cannot resolve the element:

<wsdl:message name="input">
    <wsdl:part name="surname" element="tns:input"/>
</wsdl:message>

You can try defining a different target namespace in the schema declaration and adding a new prefix in <wsdl:definitions>to that namespace.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:tns="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput"
xmlns:types="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput/types">

<!-- Type definitions for input- and output parameters for webservice -->
<wsdl:types>
    <xs:schema targetNamespace="http://localhost:8181/cxf/webservices/inputoutput/types">
...

And then in the message part use this new prefix:

<wsdl:message name="input">
    <wsdl:part name="surname" element="types:input"/>
</wsdl:message>

Right now I don't remember if it's mandatory to define different targetnamespaces for the wsdl and the schema in the types element, but I do remember facing a similar issue, and it's also considered a best practice to do so.

I usually create at least two schemas, one for the 'in' and another for the 'out' parameters both having their own namespace to avoid possible name collisions.