DataContract Attributes not being sent in responses - wcf

Question

I have had it where the name/namespace/other attributes show up when sending a request, but now they have disappeared and cant figure out for the life of me what changed... I am trying to utilize the WebApi project but the documentation seems limited.
WebServiceResource.cs :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using wsDAL.EDataTypes;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
namespace wsDAL
{
[ServiceContract]
public class WebServiceResources
{
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "/GetNameValueTest/{name}/{value}")]
public NameValue GetNameValueTest(string name, string value)
{
NameValue nv = new NameValue("WS_" + name + "_WS", "WS_" + value + "_WS");
return nv;
}
}
}
GeneralResources.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Data;
namespace wsDAL.EDataTypes
{
[DataContract(Name = "NameValueContract", Namespace = "http://fred.NameValue.com")]
public class NameValue
{
private string _name;
private string _value;
public NameValue()
{
_name = null;
_value = null;
}
public NameValue(string Name, string Value)
{
_name = Name;
_value = Value;
}
[DataMember(Name = "NameMember")]
public string Name { get { return _name; } set { _name = value; } }
[DataMember(Name = "ValueMember")]
public string Value { get { return _value; } set { _value = value; } }
}
}
Note I am using lightcore as an IOC container (kinda new to this stuff)
Was originally going of the post at http://blog.alexonasp.net/post/2011/04/15/Microsoft-Web-API-e28093-the-REST-is-done-by-WCF-(Part-1).aspx
but once I got to part six where he is returning HttpResponseMessage<Contact> from POSTs, it all started falling apart. client was looking for the namespace when returning xml but that was not part of the serialized response...
Global.asax.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using LightCore;
using Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Http.Description;
using Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Http.Activation;
....
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
ContainerBuilder builder = new ContainerBuilder();
builder.Register<IResourceFactory, LightCoreResourceFactory>();
IContainer container = builder.Build();
var configuration = HttpHostConfiguration.Create().SetResourceFactory((serviceType, instanceContext, request) => container.Resolve(serviceType), null);
RouteTable.Routes.MapServiceRoute<WebServiceResources>("ws", configuration);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
....
Ok, what it seems that I failed to realize, is that the name/namespace info gets serialized to the server, but not to the client.

Answer 1

Have you added a routing table record?
RouteTable.Routes.MapServiceRoute<WebServiceResources>("GetNameValueTest");

Answer 2

Updated answer on this... I was using a DataContractSerializer on the client which was adding the name/namespace info, while on the server I was using the default WebApi serialization which was not adding the info. Thanks for anyone who took time looking into this.