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cs0815
cs0815

Reputation: 17388

asp.net mvc controller method -> soap web service

I am quite familiar with ASP.NET MVC and know that a controller’s method can respond with XML and JSON apart from other things (i.e. behave like a restful webservice). I am just wondering whether I can make a controller method behave like a soap web service which responds with a SOAP XML response to a POST request? Maybe it is just question of responding with XML but this would be more like a restful web service. I want to avoid having to implement a separate web service project if possible. Any feedback would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Christian

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4039

Answers (2)

Erik Philips
Erik Philips

Reputation: 54618

I believe your thought is to create a single deployable MVC Web Application that can respond to both SOAP requests and RESTful requests (maybe even more?). I have thought about this myself, however there is no point in re-inventing WCF as it can do both without any additional programming. The ASP.Net MVC assemblies were not designed to function as a web service, and although it can, probably shouldn't be when other technologies exist that were designed specifically for that purpose.

Upvotes: 0

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038710

You don't need to implement a separate web service project. All you need is to add a WCF service endpoint (.svc file) to your current web project. Also you are saying that you expect SOAP response after a GET request which of course doesn't make much sense because in the SOAP specification requests should be POST.

Upvotes: 1

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