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glenatron
glenatron

Reputation: 11362

Visual Studio WCF Client creates classes with missing properties, adds ExtensionData property instead

I have a WCFService that returns sundry types of Data in this kind of a way:

[DataContract( Name="Amazing", NameSpace="http://schemas.myorganisation.com/DataContract1")]
Public class AmazingDto
{
    [DataMember( Order=0, IsRequired=true )]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DataMember( Order=0, IsRequired=true )]
    public bool IsAmazing { get; set; }

}

And then 

[DataContract ( Name="GetAmazingListResponse", NameSpace="http://schemas.myorganisation.com/DataContract1")]
Public class GetAmazingListResponseDto
{
     [DataMember(Order=0, IsRequired-true, EmitDefaultValue=False)]
     public ICollection<AmazingDto> AmazingList{ get; set; }
}

Also

[DataContract(Name = "Response", Namespace = "http://schemas.myorganisation.com/DataContract1")]
public class ResponseDto<TData> : BaseResponseDto
{
    public ResponseDto();

    [DataMember(Order = 0, IsRequired = true)]
    public StatusDto Status { get; set; }

    [DataMember(Order = 1, IsRequired = false, EmitDefaultValue = false)]
    public TData Data { get; set; }
}

And then

public ResponseDto<GetAmazingListResponseDto> GetAmazingList()
{
      var response = new ResponseDto<GetAmazingListDto>
       {
            Status = new StatusDto { StatusResult = StatusResultEnum.Success },
            Data = new GetAmazingListResponseDto
                 {
                     AmazingList = new List<AmazingDto>
                      {
                           new AmazingDto { Name="Ponies", IsAmazing=true },
                           new AmazingDto { Name="Glenatron", IsAmazing=false }
                       }
                 }
       };
       return response;
}

Now when I make a call to that service using a tool like SoapUI I get exactly the response I might expect.

  <GetAmazingListResult xmlns:a="http://schemas.myorganisation.com/DataContract1" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a:Status>
           <a:StatusResult>Success</a:StatusResult>
        </a:Status>
        <a:Data xmlns:b="http://schemas.myorganisation.com/DataContract1">
           <b:AmazingList>
              <b:Amazing>
                 <b:Name>Ponies</b:Name>
                 <b:IsAmazing>true</b:IsAmazing>
              </b:Amazing>
              <b:Amazing>
                 <b:Name>Glenatron</b:Name>
                 <b:IsAmazing>false</b:IsAmazing>
              </b:Amazing>
           </b:AmazingList>
        </a:Data>
     </GetAmazingListResult>

However, when I use Visual Studio 2010 to create a Service Reference and make a call like this:

var client= new FindoutAmazingnessServiceClient();
var response = client.GetAmazingList();

What I find is that response only has two properties, Status and ExtensionData. I have seen this described in other SE questions but the answer was always that something was missing a DataContract or DataMember on the data contracts. I definitely have those, so something else must be happening so that VS.Net can't see my classes. I have tried referencing the DTO library that contains these files and trying to configure the reference to match types with that library, but it makes no difference.

Where am I going wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 701

Answers (2)

Liladhar
Liladhar

Reputation: 383

Just Add [DataMember] to your data members. It solved my problem.

Upvotes: 1

glenatron
glenatron

Reputation: 11362

The solution I have found is, as I am working against my own WCF service, to import the interfaces into my client and then use ChannelFactory to set up the connection. This works very well in my scenario, but doesn't solve the problem I am raising with this question.

Upvotes: 0

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