I need a good example on WCF Streaming File Transfer.
I have found several and tried them but the posts are old and I am wokding on .net 4 and IIS 7 so there are some problems.
Can you gives me a good and up-to-date example on that.
I need a good example on WCF Streaming File Transfer.
I have found several and tried them but the posts are old and I am wokding on .net 4 and IIS 7 so there are some problems.
Can you gives me a good and up-to-date example on that.
The following answers detail using a few techniques for a posting binary data to a restful service.
The following code is a sample of how you could write a RESTful WCF service and is by no means complete but does give you an indication on where you could start.
Sample Service, note that this is NOT production ready code.
[ServiceContract]
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerCall)]
public class FileService
{
private IncomingWebRequestContext m_Request;
private OutgoingWebResponseContext m_Response;
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "{appName}/{id}?action={action}")]
public Stream GetFile(string appName, string id, string action)
{
var repository = new FileRepository();
var response = WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse;
var result = repository.GetById(int.Parse(id));
if (action != null && action.Equals("download", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
{
response.Headers.Add("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename={0}", result.Name));
}
response.Headers.Add(HttpResponseHeader.ContentType, result.ContentType);
response.Headers.Add("X-Filename", result.Name);
return result.Content;
}
[WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "{appName}", Method = "POST")]
public void Save(string appName, Stream fileContent)
{
try
{
if (WebOperationContext.Current == null) throw new InvalidOperationException("WebOperationContext is null.");
m_Request = WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest;
m_Response = WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse;
var file = CreateFileResource(fileContent, appName);
if (!FileIsValid(file)) throw new WebFaultException(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
SaveFile(file);
SetStatusAsCreated(file);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (ex.GetType() == typeof(WebFaultException)) throw;
if (ex.GetType().IsGenericType && ex.GetType().GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(WebFaultException<>)) throw;
throw new WebFaultException<string>("An unexpected error occurred.", HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError);
}
}
private FileResource CreateFileResource(Stream fileContent, string appName)
{
var result = new FileResource();
fileContent.CopyTo(result.Content);
result.ApplicationName = appName;
result.Name = m_Request.Headers["X-Filename"];
result.Location = @"C:\SomeFolder\" + result.Name;
result.ContentType = m_Request.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] ?? this.GetContentType(result.Name);
result.DateUploaded = DateTime.Now;
return result;
}
private string GetContentType(string filename)
{
// this should be replaced with some form of logic to determine the correct file content type (I.E., use registry, extension, xml file, etc.,)
return "application/octet-stream";
}
private bool FileIsValid(FileResource file)
{
var validator = new FileResourceValidator();
var clientHash = m_Request.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentMd5];
return validator.IsValid(file, clientHash);
}
private void SaveFile(FileResource file)
{
// This will persist the meta data about the file to a database (I.E., size, filename, file location, etc)
new FileRepository().AddFile(file);
}
private void SetStatusAsCreated(FileResource file)
{
var location = new Uri(m_Request.UriTemplateMatch.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri + "/" + file.Id);
m_Response.SetStatusAsCreated(location);
}
}
Sample Client, note that this is NOT production ready code.
// *********************************
// Sample Client
// *********************************
private void UploadButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var uri = "http://dev-fileservice/SampleApplication"
var fullFilename = @"C:\somefile.txt";
var fileContent = File.ReadAllBytes(fullFilename);
using (var webClient = new WebClient())
{
try
{
webClient.Proxy = null;
webClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentMd5, this.CalculateFileHash());
webClient.Headers.Add("X-DaysToKeep", DurationNumericUpDown.Value.ToString());
webClient.Headers.Add("X-Filename", Path.GetFileName(fullFilename));
webClient.UploadData(uri, "POST", fileContent);
var fileUri = webClient.ResponseHeaders[HttpResponseHeader.Location];
Console.WriteLine("File can be downloaded at" + fileUri);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
var exception = ex.Message;
}
}
}
private string CalculateFileHash()
{
var hash = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:\somefile.txt"));
var sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < hash.Length; i++)
{
sb.Append(hash[i].ToString("x2"));
}
return sb.ToString();
}
private void DownloadFile()
{
var uri = "http://dev-fileservice/SampleApplication/1" // this is the URL returned by the Restful file service
using (var webClient = new WebClient())
{
try
{
webClient.Proxy = null;
var fileContent = webClient.DownloadData(uri);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
}
}