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Reputation: 66727

Method from WCF Service returns different types of Objects?

Is it possible for a WCF Service method to return different types?

I already tried with Object but since it's not a DataContract type it doesn't work properly.

How can I do it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1523

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039408

You could use known types. Those could also be defined in the config file using the <system.runtime.serialization> section (see Additional Ways to Add Known Types in the article).

This being said you probably want to define a base data contract type that all other possible data contracts will derive from and have your operation return this base data contract instead of using object.

Upvotes: 6

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