CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#.netwcf
NDeveloper
NDeveloper

Reputation: 1847

Get SOAP request body in proxy client

I have application which calls a WCF service. For monitoring and tracking purposes I would like to have log all request messages for which application failed to call a service. Loke I need to call operation called RemoveSubscription and once failed(may be network problem or WCF service was down) I would like to log the SOAP message into xml or txt file.

Generaly is it possible to get the request SOAP contact in proxy class.

I found some info that it can be done by extending SoapExtension class. If this is the right way how to register/inject the new class which extends SoapExtension to channel stack.

EDIT : Service is not hosted in IIS it is in Windows service... so I am i right that in this case SoapExtension is not the right solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2978

Answers (1)

Sixto Saez
Sixto Saez

Reputation: 12680

With a WCF based client, you can create an endpoint behavior to intercept the request & response messages. This TechNet article shows how to access the message being sent and the response message. Your WCF client can be generated by either adding a Service Reference in Visual Studio, using SvcUtil to manually generate your client code or rolling your own proxy directly in code using the ChannelFactory class.

Your logging code would always write out the request message with a status of requested and a timestamp to some data store (file, database, etc.) When the response message is received, it would match request message somehow from the response message contents and update the data store to change the status to responded. Selecting all the messages from the data store with the status of requested older that some time period would list all the failed messages.

Upvotes: 3

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