My understanding may be wrong, but I thought once you applied the correct attributes the DataContractSerializer would render fully-qualified instances back to the caller.
The code runs and the objects return. But oddly enough, once I look at the returned objects I noticed the namespacing disappeared and the object-hierarchy being exposed through the (web applications) service reference seems to become "flat" (somehow). Now, I expect this from a web-service…but not through WCF. Of course, my understanding of what WCF can do may be wrong.
...please keep in mind I'm still experimenting with all this.
So my questions are…
Q: Can I do something within the WCF Service to force the namespacing to render through the (service reference) data client proxy?
Q: Or perhaps, am I (merely) consuming the service incorrectly?
Q: Is this even possible?
The service code looks like…
[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerSession)]
public class DataService : IFishData
{
public C1FE GetC1FE(Int32 key)
{
//… more stuff here …
}
public Project GetProject(Int32 key)
{
//… more stuff here …
}
}
[ServiceContract]
[ServiceKnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE.New))]
[ServiceKnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project.New))]
public interface IFishData
{
[OperationContract]
C1FE GetC1FE(Int32 key);
[OperationContract]
Project GetProject(Int32 key);
}
[DataContract]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class Project
{
[DataMember]
public wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState ObjectState { get; set; }
//… more stuff here …
}
[DataContract]
KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class C1FE
{
[DataMember]
public wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState ObjectState { get; set; }
//… more stuff here …
}
[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE.New))]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project.New))]
public abstract class ObjectState
{
//… more stuff here …
}
[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE", Name="New")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class New : ObjectState
{
//… more stuff here …
}
[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project", Name = "New")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class New : ObjectState
{
//… more stuff here …
}
The web application code looks like…
public partial class Fish_Invite : BaseForm
{
protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Project project = new Project();
project.Get(base.ProjectKey, base.AsOf);
mappers.Project mapProject = new mappers.Project();
srFish.Project fishProject = new srFish.Project();
srFish.FishDataClient fishService = new srFish.FishDataClient();
mapProject.MapTo(project, fishProject);
fishProject = fishService.AddProject(fishProject, IUser.UserName);
project = null;
}
}
In case I’m not being clear…
The issue arises in that the namespacing I expect to see (returned) is different from what is actually returned.
fishProject.ObjectState SHOULD look like...
srFish.StateManagement.Project.New
fishC1FE.ObjectState SHOULD look like...
srFish.StateManagement.C1FE.New
fishProject.ObjectState ACTUALLY looks like...
srFish.New1
fishC1FE.ObjectState ACTUALLY looks like...
srFish.New