WCF Contract Generation - wcf

Question

Is there way to change the wcf contract from.
This
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
**<AddCustomer>**
<!--Optional:-->
<Data>
<ns:AddressLine1>?</ns:AddressLine1>
<ns:AddressLine2>?</ns:AddressLine2>
<ns:City>?</ns:City>
<ns:Country>?</ns:Country>
<ns:Email>?</ns:Email>
<ns:FirstName>?</ns:FirstName>
<ns:HomePhone>?</ns:HomePhone>
<ns:ID>?</ns:ID>
<ns:LastName>?</ns:LastName>
<ns:MobilePhone>?</ns:MobilePhone>
<ns:State>?</ns:State>
<ns:Suburb>?</ns:Suburb>
</Data>
**</AddCustomer>**
To
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:biz="http://BizTalk.Test001.Customer">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<biz:Data>
<ID>?</ID>
<FirstName>?</FirstName>
<LastName>?</LastName>
<MobilePhone>?</MobilePhone>
<HomePhone>?</HomePhone>
<Email>?</Email>
<AddressLine1>?</AddressLine1>
<AddressLine2>?</AddressLine2>
<Suburb>?</Suburb>
<City>?</City>
<State>?</State>
<Country>?</Country>
</biz:Data>
Basically i want to get rid of "AddCustomer" from the request. Can we do something using ServiceContract or OperationContract.

Answer 1

You have to implement IClientMessageInspector interface.So before sending a request or after receving the response you need to implement your own C# methods to override your request /response SOAP messages like,
public class ClientMessageInspector : IClientMessageInspector
{
public string LastRequestXml { get; private set; }
public string LastResponseXml { get; private set; }
public void AfterReceiveReply(ref Message reply, object correlationState)
{
LastResponseXml = reply.ToString();
}
public object BeforeSendRequest(ref Message request, System.ServiceModel.IClientChannel channel)
{
LastRequestXml = request.ToString();
var xmlPayload = ChangeMessage();
var ms = new MemoryStream();
var writer = new StreamWriter(ms);
writer.Write(xmlPayload);
writer.Flush();
ms.Position = 0;
var reader = XmlReader.Create(ms);
request = Message.CreateMessage(reader, int.MaxValue, request.Version);
var payload = request.ToString();
return request;
}
/// Manipulate the SOAP message
private string ChangeMessage()
{
//manipulation code here to remove AddCustomer.
}
}
For detail implementation check out this blog.
https://cmatskas.com/changing-soap-message-data-and-namespaces-with-c/