mule set http header values from postman rest client - mule

Question

mule code
<flow name="getDetails">
<http:inbound-endpoint doc:description="This endpoint receives an HTTP message." doc:name="HTTP" exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="8081" path="getDetails"/>
<json:xml-to-json-transformer doc:name="XML to JSON" mimeType="text/json" ignoreBadInput="true"/>
<logger message="xml to json output #[message.payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<logger message=" custom header username ... #[message.outboundProperties.get('http.headers.username')]" level="INFO" />
<logger message=" custom header username ... #[message.inboundProperties.get('http.headers.username')]" level="INFO" />
<http:outbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" address="http://localhost:8081/callReservation" method="POST" contentType="application/json" doc:name="HTTP"/>
</flow>
Here i give input as employee xml in the body
and in header i give username=user1 password=pwd1 in postman rest client
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<employee>
<name>abc</name>
<address>add1</address>
<phone>1212</phone>
</employee>
I got like error like below
com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character '{' (code 123) in prolog; expected '<'
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1] (javax.xml.transform.TransformerException) (org.mule.api.transformer.TransformerException). Message payload is of type: String
using header and xmlto json conversion is mandatory for me.
can anyone help me out

Answer 1

Following code works fine for me. HTH.
<flow name="getDetails" doc:name="getDetails">
<http:inbound-endpoint doc:description="This endpoint receives an HTTP message."
doc:name="HTTP" exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost"
port="1000" path="getDetails" />
<json:xml-to-json-transformer doc:name="XML to JSON"
mimeType="text/json" ignoreBadInput="true" />
<logger message="xml to json output #[message.payload]" level="INFO"
doc:name="Logger" />
<logger
message=" custom header username ... #[message.inboundProperties.'http.headers'.username]"
level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<http:outbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response"
address="http://localhost:1001/callReservation" method="POST"
contentType="application/json" doc:name="HTTP" />
</flow>
<flow name="testFlow1" doc:name="testFlow1">
<http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="1001" path="callReservation" doc:name="HTTP"/>
<json:json-to-xml-transformer doc:name="JSON to XML"/>
<logger message="Data received : #[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
</flow>

Answer 2

I am getting the value using following :-
<logger message=" custom header username ... #[message.inboundProperties['username']]"
level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
You need to pass the XML in the body of postman
UPDATE
I am getting the value as below :-

Answer 3

Use the data mapper after the http:outBound to convert to json response.