Jackson SOAP module

[tunaranch]

It would be great to have a module to supplement jackson-datatype-xml that made generating and handling SOAP messages easier.

While it's possible to wrangle this in place with a combination of jaxb and jackson, it would be easier to simply say, 'here's my class annotated with jackson annotations (or generated from xic), please wrap them in a soap envelope.

As a rough roadmap here are some features:

• Create a SOAP message with a given object as the body
• Create a soap message with given body and headers
• Read an xml response and determine if it's a soap fault
• Read an xml response and map the soap body to an object.

Thank you.

[cowtowncoder]

If someone wants to tackle this, great. Thank you for idea!

[sokomishalov]

If someone interested - I've implemented the proof of concept
Feel free to use and raise issues in case I've forgotten to implement something from the protocol
https://github.com/sokomishalov/jackson-datatype-soap

[cowtowncoder]

Sounds useful! Only one minor suggestion: "format" for Jackson modules typically means underlying data format, and "datatype" would be for structures above it. Although I can see how Soap could be thought of as a format, naming-wise it might align better with term "datatype". So in that sense, jackson-datatype-soap might be an even better name.
But naming choice is of course up to you; I'll just mention the convention. :)

[sokomishalov]

@cowtowncoder fair enough, thanks!