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lentinant
lentinant

Reputation: 832

Pass struct or class to WCF Web Service using browser

I'm creating WCF Web Service, which should be consumed by applications using URL only (e.g. http://localhost:8000/TestMethod?s=testString). I have successfully hosted this web service, it works well etc. But for now, I'm passing only simple values there. For example, having next example

[DataContract]
public struct Person
{
    [DataMember]
    public string FirstName;
    [DataMember]
    public string LastName;
}

//in service interface
[OperationContract]
[WebInvoke]
void RegisterUser(Person newUser);

How should I call RegisterUser using URL? How will stucture parameter look? Or should I simply decompose data type to simple variables and pass them as parameters?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 404

Answers (1)

hungryMind
hungryMind

Reputation: 7009

Set Uri template to the method, so that service identify the method to execute and understand the data passed via URL.

Have a look at documentation

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.web.webinvokeattribute(v=vs.110).aspx

For passing complex type pass json string (prefer post rather than get) and user serializer to deserialize the string to person object.

or Consider different requestType https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.web.webinvokeattribute.requestformat(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 1

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