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Mohan
Mohan

Reputation: 969

Is there any Rest Envelope like SOAP Envelope?

How messages are transferred in WCF rest services? Is there any rest envelope? Please suggest.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 227

Answers (1)

Seymour
Seymour

Reputation: 7067

A REST Web Service does not have an envelope structure, but rather just utilizes Http (address, method, header, body).

The Http Header(s) can be accessed using:

WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.Headers

The Http message body can be accessed using: 

OperationContext.Current.RequestContext.RequestMessage

In order to more thoroughly understand / visualize the REST Web Service message structure, you could host a simple WCF Rest Web Service, enable tracing and then send a few messages. The trace file will show the Http message (headers and body) as such:

<HttpRequest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/ServiceModel/Management/MessageTrace">
<Method>POST</Method>
<QueryString></QueryString>
<WebHeaders>
<Connection>close</Connection>
<Content-Length>10531</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>application/xml</Content-Type>
<Accept>*/*</Accept>
<Accept-Encoding>gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3</Accept-Encoding>
<Host>127.0.0.1:18100</Host>
<User-Agent>Ruby</User-Agent>
</WebHeaders>

Note: if you need additional implementation information, the following link provides a fairly comprehensive and straightforward overview of WCF Rest Web Service implementation:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/571813/A-Beginners-Tutorial-on-Creating-WCF-REST-Services

Regards,

Upvotes: 2

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