SOAP - auto generate fault responses

[Servanto]

Question

Is it possible to auto generate soap FAULT responses with imposter?

Problem

When importing .wsdl & .xsd files and sending requests to the created endpoint, imposter automatically generates example responses.

For example this output, where it creates some random timestamp and uses one of a couple of defined statuses from within the used .xsd file:

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <env:Header/>
   <env:Body>
      <del:StatusResponse xmlns:del="exampleNameSpace">
         <del:status>IDLE</del:status>
         <del:successTime>2007-04-20T23:21:24+02:00</del:successTime>
      </del:StatusResponse >
   </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

But I can't seem to find anything similar to that, regarding soap faults. I can set the response status to 500, then it sends the request with that code, but the response is still the auto generated normal response.

A response like this for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <env:Body>
      <env:Fault>
         <faultcode xmlns="">env:Server</faultcode>
         <faultstring xmlns="">This is a fault</faultstring>
         <faultactor xmlns="" />
         <detail xmlns="">
            <hasn:ServiceException xmlns:hasn="exampleNameSpaceFault">
               <hasn:errorCode>400-505</hasn:errorCode>
               <hasn:message>Not working currently</hasn:message>
            </hasn:ServiceException > 
         </detail>
      </env:Fault>
   </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

And just to be sure that we are talkin about the same thing: In the operation part of a soap message, where we define the input and output, we can also define a fault, like this one here:

<wsdl:operation name="list">
    <soap:operation soapAction="" style="document" />
    <wsdl:input name="exampleInput">
        <soap:body use="literal" />
    </wsdl:input>
    <wsdl:output name="exampleOutput">
        <soap:body use="literal" />
    </wsdl:output>
    **<wsdl:fault name="exampleException">
        <soap:fault name="exampleException" use="literal" />
    </wsdl:fault>**
</wsdl:operation>

Resolve (?)

I'm not sure how much effort that is, but having something like "soapFault: true", which can be set in the config yaml, and it auto generates a fault response, would be really great. Or is this functionality already present, but I didn't find it?

[outofcoffee]

Hi @Servanto, thanks for raising this. Here's a PR covering this functionality: #650

[outofcoffee]

Released in v4.2.0.

Docs here: https://docs.imposter.sh/soap_plugin/#returning-fault-messages