Saturday, 19 April 2014

OperationContract Attribute in WCF



OperationContractAttribute Class

Indicates that a method defines an operation that is part of a service contract in a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) application.
 [AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Method)]
public sealed class OperationContractAttribute : Attribute
The OperationContractAttribute type exposes the following members.
 
Name
Description
Explicit interface implemetationPrivate method
Maps a set of names to a corresponding set of dispatch identifiers. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Explicit interface implemetationPrivate method
Retrieves the type information for an object, which can be used to get the type information for an interface. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Explicit interface implemetationPrivate method
Retrieves the number of type information interfaces that an object provides (either 0 or 1). (Inherited from Attribute.)
Explicit interface implemetationPrivate method
Provides access to properties and methods exposed by an object. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Apply the OperationContractAttribute to a method to indicate that the method implements a service operation as part of a service contract (specified by a ServiceContractAttribute attribute).
Use the OperationContractAttribute properties to control the structure of the operation and the values expressed in metadata:
·         The Action property specifies the action that uniquely identifies this operation. WCF dispatches request messages to methods based on their action.
·         The AsyncPattern property indicates that the operation is implemented or can be called asynchronously using a Begin/End method pair.
·         The HasProtectionLevel property indicates whether the ProtectionLevel property has been explicitly set.
·         The IsOneWay property indicates that the operation only consists of a single input message. The operation has no associated output message.
·         The IsInitiating property specifies whether this operation can be the initial operation in a session.
·         The IsTerminating property specifies whether WCF attempts to terminate the current session after the operation completes.
·         The ProtectionLevel property specifies the message-level security that an operation requires at run time.
·         The ReplyAction property specifies the action of the reply message for the operation.
The OperationContractAttribute attribute declares that a method is an operation in a service contract. Only methods attributed with the OperationContractAttribute are exposed as service operations. A service contract without any methods marked with the OperationContractAttribute exposes no operations.
The AsyncPattern property indicates that a pair of Begin<methodName> and End<methodName> methods form a single operation implemented asynchronously (whether on the client or the service). The ability of a service to implement operations asynchronously is a service implementation detail and is not exposed in metadata (such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL)).
Similarly, clients can choose to invoke operations asynchronously independent of how the service method is implemented. Calling service operations asynchronously in the client is recommended when a service method takes some time but must return information directly to the client. For details, see AsyncPattern.
The IsOneWay property indicates that a method does not return any value at all, including an empty underlying response message. This type of method is useful for notifications or event-style communication. Methods of this kind cannot return a reply message so the method's declaration must return void.
Important noteImportant
When programmatically retrieving the information store in this attribute, use the ContractDescription class instead of reflection.
NoteNote
If the IsOneWay property is set to false, (the default), even methods that return void are two-way methods at the underlying message level. In this case, the infrastructure creates and sends an empty message to indicate to the caller that the method has returned. Using this approach enables the application and the infrastructure to send error information (such as a SOAP fault) back to the client. Setting IsOneWay to true is the only way to prevent the creation and dispatch of a reply message. For more information, see One-Way Services.
The Action and ReplyAction properties can be used not only to modify the default action of SOAP messages but also to create handlers for unrecognized messages or to disable adding actions for direct message programming. Use the IsInitiating property to prevent clients from calling a particular service operation prior to other operations. Use the IsTerminating property to have WCF close the channel after clients call a particular service operation. For more information, see Using Sessions.
The ProtectionLevel property enables you to specify on the operation contract whether the operation messages are signed, encrypted, or signed and encrypted. If a binding cannot provide the security level required by the contract, an exception is thrown at run time. For more information, see ProtectionLevel and Understanding Protection Level.
The following code example shows a simple service contract with one operation.
C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Security;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Text;
 
namespace Microsoft.WCF.Documentation
{
  [ServiceContract(Namespace="Microsoft.WCF.Documentation")]
  public interface ISampleService{
    // This operation specifies an explicit protection level requirement.
    [OperationContract(ProtectionLevel=ProtectionLevel.EncryptAndSign)]
    string SampleMethod(string msg);
  }
 
  class SampleService : ISampleService
  {
  #region ISampleService Members
 
  public string  SampleMethod(string msg)
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Called with: {0}", msg);
          return "The service greets you: " + msg;
  }
 
  #endregion
  }
}
The following example is a service that implements an implicit service contract that specifies three operations. Two of the operations are two-way operations, which return underlying response messages to the caller no matter what the return value is. The third operation receives a call, an underlying inbound message, but returns no underlying response message.
C#
[ServiceContractAttribute]
public class OneAndTwoWay
{
  // The client waits until a response message appears.
  [OperationContractAttribute]
  public int MethodOne (int x, out int y)
  {
    y = 34;
    return 0;
  }
 
  // The client waits until an empty response message appears.
  [OperationContractAttribute]
  public void MethodTwo (int x)
  {
    return;
  }
 
  // The client returns as soon as an outbound message
  // is dispatched to the service; no response
  // message is generated or sent from the service.
  [OperationContractAttribute(IsOneWay=true)]
  public void MethodThree (int x)
  {
    return;
  }
}




Unwrapped Messages

This sample demonstrates unwrapped messages. By default, the message body is formatted such that the parameters to a service operation are wrapped. The following sample shows an Add request message to the ICalculator service in wrapped mode.
<s:Envelope 
    xmlns:s=http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope
    xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/08/addressing">
    <s:Header>
        
    </s:Header>
    <s:Body>
      <Add xmlns="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples">
        <n1>100</n1>
        <n2>15.99</n2>
      </Add>
    </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
 
The <Add> element in the message body wraps the n1 and n2 parameters. In contrast, the following sample shows the equivalent message in the unwrapped mode.
<s:Envelope 
    xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" 
    xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/08/addressing">
    <s:Header>
        ….
    </s:Header>
    <s:Body>
      <n1 xmlns="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples">100</n1>
      <n2 xmlns="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples">15.99</n2>
    </s:Body>
  </s:Envelope>
</MessageLogTraceRecord>
 
The unwrapped message does not wrap the n1 and n2 parameters in a containing element, they are direct children of the soap body element.
NoteNote
The setup procedure and build instructions for this sample are located at the end of this topic.
In this sample, an unwrapped message is created by applying the MessageContractAttribute to the service operation parameter type and return value type as shown in the following sample code.
[ServiceContract(Namespace="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples")]
public interface ICalculator
{
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseMessage Add(RequestMessage request);
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseMessage Subtract(RequestMessage request);
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseMessage Multiply(RequestMessage request);
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseMessage Divide(RequestMessage request);
}
 
//setting IsWrapped to false means the n1 and n2
//members will be direct children of the soap body element
[MessageContract(IsWrapped = false)]
public class RequestMessage
{
    [MessageBodyMember]
    private double n1;
    [MessageBodyMember]
    private double n2;
    //…
}
 
//setting IsWrapped to false means the result
//member will be a direct child of the soap body element
[MessageContract(IsWrapped = false)]
public class ResponseMessage
{
    [MessageBodyMember]
    private double result;
    //…
}
To allow you to see the messages being sent and received, this sample uses tracing. In addition, the WSHttpBinding has been configured without security, to reduce the number of messages it logs.
The resulting trace log (c:\logs\Message.log) can be viewed by using the Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe). To view message contents, select Messages in both the left and the right panes of the Service Trace Viewer tool. Trace logs in this sample are configured to be generated into the C:\LOGS folder. Create this folder before running the sample and give the user Network Service write permissions for this directory.

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