Groovy script for calling a WSDL-based web service dynamically with JAX-WS API back-end by CXF

dynamic-ws.groovy

import javax.xml.namespace.QName
import javax.xml.soap.*
import javax.xml.ws.Dispatch
import javax.xml.ws.Service
import javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPBinding
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory

// Create the message
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(SOAPConstants.SOAP_1_2_PROTOCOL)
SOAPMessage requestMessage = messageFactory.createMessage()
MimeHeaders mimeHeaders = requestMessage.getMimeHeaders()
mimeHeaders.setHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetCitiesByCountry")

// Add a body
SOAPBody body = requestMessage.getSOAPBody()
QName getCitiesByCountryName = new QName("http://www.webserviceX.NET", "GetCitiesByCountry")
SOAPBodyElement bodyElement = body.addBodyElement(getCitiesByCountryName)
QName countryNameName = new QName("http://www.webserviceX.NET", "CountryName")
SOAPElement countryNameElement = bodyElement.addChildElement(countryNameName)
countryNameElement.addTextNode("Hungary")

// Create service dynamically
QName serviceName = new QName("http://www.webserviceX.NET", "GlobalWeather")
Service service = Service.create(serviceName)
QName portName = new QName("http://www.webserviceX.NET", "GlobalWeatherSoap12")
service.addPort(portName, SOAPBinding.SOAP12HTTP_BINDING, "http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx")
Dispatch<SOAPMessage> dispatch = service.createDispatch(portName, SOAPMessage.class, Service.Mode.MESSAGE)

// Retrieve results
SOAPMessage responseMessage = dispatch.invoke(requestMessage)
SOAPBody responseBody = responseMessage.getSOAPBody()

/*
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter()
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance()
Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer()
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "no")
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml")
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes")
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8")

transformer.transform(new DOMSource(responseBody), new StreamResult(sw))
println(sw.toString())
*/

XPath xPath =  XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath()
Object result = xPath.compile("//GetCitiesByCountryResult").evaluate(responseBody, XPathConstants.NODE)
println("Result: " + result)