Web Services and Custom Attributes

[CrashDome]

I coded myself into a corner!

I wrote an object in my Web Service which utilizes a custom attribute. In my client app, the web reference does not support that custom attribute! (AFAIK)

I didn't even think about this, but is it possible to send metadata over a web service?

example:

Web Service:

public Foo 
{
   private string id;
   [CustomSearchableAttribute("Identity")]
   public string ID { get...set...};
}

Client:

using WebServiceNamespace;
.
.
.

   MyWebSvc mySvc = new MyWebSvc();
   Foo f = mySvc.GetAFoo();

^^^ Foo's ID property does not have custom attribute "Searchable"

Other than breaking down the object and rebuilding under a different namespace on the client side, is there a way to get my custom attribute to be recognized over a Web Reference????

 

[jmeckley]

I haven't worked too much with Webservice but these too links my be helpful
4 Guys From Rolla (Part 6)
Google Results(query: send metadata over a web service asp.net)

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[CrashDome]

Thanks, but that's for something else actually.

I'm beginning to see the difference of a web reference.

 

[chiph]

No, the client proxy will never see your custom attributes.

This is because the philosophy of web services is that they have to be language agnostic -- your service must be as easily called from PHP or Ruby as it would be from C# or Java, and some of those other languages don't have attributes.

Chip H.


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