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Vaccano
Vaccano

Reputation: 82467

Call a WCF Service using just manual code (no config or autogen code)

I am loosely following the method in WCF The Right Way ... The Manual Way to setup my WCF Service.

I have a manually generated proxy class that looks like this:

// Setup a client so we can call our web services.
public class EmployeeClient :IEmployeeService
{
    private readonly IEmployeeService EmployeeChannel;

    public EmployeeClient(Binding binding, string address)
    {
        var endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(address);

        EmployeeChannel = new ChannelFactory<IEmployeeService>
                                 (binding, endpointAddress).CreateChannel();
    }

    public EmployeeResponse SaveOrUpdateEmployee(EmployeeContract employee)
    {
        return EmployeeChannel.SaveOrUpdateEmployee(employee);
    }
}

I then want to call some of these services. But I don't want to use any config files (I am setting up some integration tests and I don't want more dependencies than needed.)

I am currently trying to call them like this:

serviceHost = SelfServiceHost.StartupService();

employeeClient = new EmployeeClient(new BasicHttpBinding(), 
                                    SelfServiceHost.StartUpUrl);

EmployeeResponse employeeResponse = employeeClient.SaveOrUpdateEmployee(emp);

When I do that I am getting this exception:

System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException: Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service http://localhost:8090/EmployeeService. The client and service bindings may be mismatched. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (415) Cannot process the message because the content type 'text/xml; charset=utf-8' was not the expected type 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8'..

What do I need to do to get a call to my service working with code only?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5606

Answers (1)

Yahia
Yahia

Reputation: 70379

From what you dessribe the binding is not configured in a compatible way.

I suspect that the WCF host has wsHttpBinding and your client-side has BasicHttpBinding or similar...

see http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wcf/thread/f29cd9c8-3c89-43d2-92ae-d2a270ab86b9/

Upvotes: 6

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