I have two services that use same library business model. For generation
proxy classes I get two classes Service1.A and Service2.A, but A is one type of data. I want get one class. Is it possibly. How do it?
There are two ways to call WCF service. Proxy and Channel.
In Proxy, you can add WCF service to your project with Add Service Reference ... In this way, proxy classes generated automatically. You can't use your shared classes. Because, shared classes generated again as proxy.
If you can use shared classes, you must choose Channel way. In channel, add reference ServiceContact (interface) and DataContract to the client project.
var address = new EndpointAddress("..."); // Service address
var binding = new BasicHttpBinding(); // Binding type
var channel = ChannelFactory<IService>.CreateChannel(binding, address);
var result = channel.MethodName(string param1); // Method name and parameters can be changed.
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I'm consuming a WCF service in my project for which I've added the reference using 'Add Service Reference...'. I expected it to generate a clean proxy with a ServiceClient entity and the Interface. Instead, I see that it has created a MethodNameRequest, MethodNameRequestBody, MethodNameResponse, MethodNameResponseBody entities for each OperationContract method.
So while invoking the service methods, the proxy passes to the service method an instance of MethodNameRequest with the input parameters of the method as the properties of the RequestBody. See below an example of a call to AboutInformationGet() method which doesn't accept any parameters.
public WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.AboutModel AboutInformationGet() {
WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.AboutInformationGetRequest inValue = new WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.AboutInformationGetRequest();
inValue.Body = new WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.AboutInformationGetRequestBody();
WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.AboutInformationGetResponse retVal = ((WCFDynamicInvocation.PostingService.IMIGQPosting)(this)).AboutInformationGet(inValue);
return retVal.Body.AboutInformationGetResult;
}
I believe this behavior is what one would expect to see in a Webservice Proxy. Hence I suspect that the WCF service is not properly configured.
Did someone here face this issue? What would be the change to be done at the service so that the proxy generated is similar to the WCF service.
Cheers.
There is a similar post here.
Right click your service reference -> Configure service reference... -> Check if "Always generate message contracts" check box is checked. Uncheck it and hit OK to regenerate the proxy to see if you get a normal proxy.
After struggling with this for some time, I've finally found that the cause for the message contracts in the proxy was the service interface had the following attribute:
[XmlSerializerFormat(Use = OperationFormatUse.Literal, Style = OperationFormatStyle.Document)]
As I understand, I could decorate the DataContracts with the following attribute to avoid wrapping
[MessageContract(IsWrapped = false)]
but the response still gets wrapped as the OperationContract hasn't been modified.
As there were no particular need to use XMLSerializer in place of WCF's default DataContractSerializer, we would remove the XmlSeralizerFormat decoration.
I have gone through following references and found that a WCF service can be called dynamically. But, i have not been able to call a service (method) accepting parameters as ref and out.
Calling a WCF service from a client without having the contract interface
Dynamic Programming with WCF
Dynamically Invoking Web Services... With WCF This Time
Invoking WCF Service without adding a Service Reference.
Is there any way to make such call with ref and out parameters?
Invoking WCF Service without adding a Service Reference. works greate provided i know the Contract. So i added the web reference first, copied the generated proxy into actual project and then removed the web refernce and simply called the method as
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
EndpointAddress epAddr = new EndpointAddress("http://192.168.0.233/GMS/GMSService.svc");
GMSContract.IGMSService _interface = ChannelFactory<GMSContract.IGMSService>.CreateChannel(binding, epAddr);
...
bool r = _interface.MyGMSMethod(..., ref ..., out ..., out ...);
Please don't respond with ServiceKnownType, as I don't know what the concrete implementation will be.
The interface is designed to be created from an ioc container. I created a ServiceHostFactory that adds a IInstanceProvider that grabs the service from the container.
What I want know is to be able to add IInstanceProviders to the client side calls for the parameters.
var factory = new WebChannelFactory<ITestService>(new Uri("http://localhost:30646/TestService.svc"));
var service = factory.CreateChannel();
var result = service.TestMethod("sdf");
This is how I am creating proxy on the client side. Imagine I have a return type as ICustomType.
Is there a way I can tell the factory above to use a certain instance provider with trying to create interfaces? That way, I can call my container for the instance.
There is no IInstanceProvider model on the client side - it is for creating the services instances when they are required.
You could derive from ChannelFactory and do your IoC resolution in there
btw: You do know that ServiceKnownType can take a method rather than a type which can return the valid known types at runtime?
Let's say we have a back-end that needs to talk to N external systems using some kind of Web Services.
What I do is: Create a separate project and generate there the proxy classes (using the service's WSDL in the WCF Service Reference dialog).
About the project name suffix:
I firstly though XxAdapter. But then, I started creating classes with additional logic like CircuitBreakers so I ended up with XxAgent (from ServiceAgent).
What should be the "correct" suffix for the name of such projects.
The most appropriate suffix is "Proxies" because of several reasons:
Your component contains all the web service proxy classes.
In case that you want to make calls to several service proxies transparent, you can create a new class named MyLocalProxy, and perform the action
public class MyServiceProxy
{
public void DoSomething()
{
var serviceProxy1 = new ServiceProxy1();
serviceProxy1.DoOneThing();
var serviceProxy2 = new ServiceProxy2();
serviceProxy2.DoAnotherThing();
}
}
The additional class helps you to not depend on concrete service proxies, so you can interchange them as you wish.
Cheers.
I have an application where client and server share types, and interoperability is not one of our concerns. I am planning to have a single repository for all web enabled objects, and i was thinking of a generic interface for my exposed service.
something like T GetObject(int id)
but wcf doesnt like it since its trying to expose its schema (which i dont really care about)
is it possible to do such a thing with WCF ?, i can use any type of binding doesnt have to be httpbinding or wsbinding...
No, you can't. Whether or not you want or need interoperability, the most basic foundation of WCF is message exchange.
The client send the server a message and gets back a response. That message is all that passes between client and server, and needs to be serializable into a XML or binary format. That's why any data being passed around must be atomic (like int, string) or a DataContract - a description for the WCF service stack about how to serialize and deserialize such objects.
You cannot pass any interfaces, or other "trickery" - all that goes between client and server must be expressable in XML schema, basically.
So I'm afraid what you're trying to achieve is quite contrary to what WCF offers. The world and paradigms of SOA (Service-Oriented Apps) are quite different and not always 100% in sync with the idea and mechanisms of OOP.
Marc
I suppose this is possible, though I'm not sure you'd want this. I'd take the following approach (untested, not sure if it works). First create the following project structure in your solution:
ServiceInterfaces
ServiceImplementations (references ServiceInterfaces and ModelClasses)
ModelClasses
Host (references ServiceInterfaces and ServiceImplementations)
Client (references ServiceInterfaces and ModelClasses)
In ServiceInterfaces you have an interface like this (I skipped the namespaces, etc to make the example shorter):
[ServiceContract]
public interface IMyService<T>
{
T GetObject(int id);
}
In ServiceImplementations you have a class that implements IMyService<T>:
public class MyService<T> : IMyService<T>
{
T GetObject(int id)
{
// Create something of type T and return it. Rather difficult
// since you only know the type at runtime.
}
}
In Host you have the correct configuration for your service in an App.config (or Web.config) file and the following code to host your service (given that it is a stand-alone app):
ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(MessageManager.MessageManagerService))
host.Open();
And finally in Client you use a ChannelFactory<TChannel> class to define a proxy:
Binding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(); // For the example, could be another binding.
EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("http://localhost:8000/......");
IMyService<string> myService =
ChannelFactory<IMyService<string>>.CreateChannel(binding, address);
string myObject = myService.GetObject(42);
Again, I'm not sure if this works. The trick is to share your service interfaces (in ServiceInterfaces) and domain model objects (in ModelClasses) between the host and the client. In my example I use a string to return from the service method but it could be any data contract type from the ModelClasses project.
You CAN DO that if you use ServiceKnownTypesDiscovery.
For example:
[ServiceKnownType("GetKnownTypes", typeof(ServiceKnownTypesDiscovery))]
public interface ISomeService
{
[OperationContract]
object Request(IRequestBase parameters);
}
where GetKnownTypes could be declared like so:
public static class ServiceKnownTypesDiscovery
{
public static IEnumerable<Type> GetKnownTypes(ICustomAttributeProvider provider)
{
var types = new List<Type>();
foreach (var asmFile in Directory.GetFiles(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath ?? AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "*.dll"))
{
Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFrom(asmFile);
types.AddRange(asm.GetTypes().Where(p=> Attribute.IsDefined(p,typeof(DataContractAttribute))));
}
return types;
}
}
In this case everything declared with [DataContract] (as long as they are discoverable on the server AND the client side) can be serialized.
I hope this helped!
Following the previous example, you could declare a DataContract with an object as DataMember. Then you could add an extension method to get and set a generic type on the object data member. You could also make this internal, this way you would be obliged to use the extension methods to get and set the value.
Of course, it only works if you generate the client using svcutil (or Visual Studio) and you reference the assembly containing the data contract and the class with the extensions methods.
Hope this helps...