Restful service consuming WCF self hosted service - wcf

Question

I am currently working with an application that is using a restful service. There is another application that has a self hosted WCF service running. I would like to consume the self hosted service from the restful service but I'm running into an issue. I am getting a (405) Method Not Allowed.
Here is how the self hosted service is created and hosted
ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(LiveService));
host.Open();
Here is how I am trying to consume the function in the restful service
BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement binaryMessageEncoding = new BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement();
HttpTransportBindingElement httpTransport = new HttpTransportBindingElement() { MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue, MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue };
CustomBinding ServiceCustomBinding = new CustomBinding(binaryMessageEncoding, httpTransport);
EndpointAddress ServiceEndpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(string.Format("http://{0}/LiveService", host));
LiveWebServiceClient client = new LiveWebServiceClient(ServiceCustomBinding, ServiceEndpointAddress);
Here is an example of the service
[ServiceContract]
public interface ILiveService
{
[OperationContract]
string Hello();
}
public string Hello()
{
return "Hello";
}
I did some research and I'm guessing its because I'm calling from a restful service. I have tried using [WebGet()] and [WebInvoke(Method="GET")] but it didnt seem to make a difference. Not sure what I am missing.

Answer 1

I have tried to simulate your scenario (from whatever I could comprehend from the description) and it worked fine -
Self hosted service code
namespace SelfHostedService
{
[ServiceContract]
internal interface ILiveService
{
[OperationContract]
string Hello();
}
public class LiveService:ILiveService
{
public string Hello()
{
return "Hello";
}
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var binaryMessageEncoding = new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement();
var httpTransport = new HttpTransportBindingElement() { MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue, MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue };
var ServiceCustomBinding = new CustomBinding(binaryMessageEncoding, httpTransport);
ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(LiveService), new Uri("http://localhost:3239/LiveService"));
host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof (ILiveService), ServiceCustomBinding, "");
var smb = new ServiceMetadataBehavior();
smb.HttpGetEnabled = true;
host.Description.Behaviors.Add(smb);
host.AddServiceEndpoint(ServiceMetadataBehavior.MexContractName, MetadataExchangeBindings.CreateMexHttpBinding(), "mex");
host.Open();
Console.ReadLine();
}
Restful Service call to the self hosted service after adding the reference to the self hosted service -
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
[OperationContract]
[WebInvoke(Method = "GET", RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped)]
}
public string ReturnFromSelfHostService()
{
var binaryMessageEncoding = new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement();
var httpTransport = new HttpTransportBindingElement() { MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue, MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue };
var ServiceCustomBinding = new CustomBinding(binaryMessageEncoding, httpTransport);
var ServiceEndpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(string.Format("http://{0}/LiveService", "localhost:3239"));
var client = new LiveServiceClient(ServiceCustomBinding, ServiceEndpointAddress);
return client.Hello();
}
string ReturnFromSelfHostService();
}
It returns me
<ReturnFromSelfHostServiceResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<ReturnFromSelfHostServiceResult>Hello</ReturnFromSelfHostServiceResult>
</ReturnFromSelfHostServiceResponse>