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Has anyone written a web service with XSharp? any ideas / suggestions / examples?
Thank you all

Danilo

Hi Danilo,

I might not be right, but I have not seen a way to design web services in X#.

I expected that X# may compile the following code, but it errors on [WebMethod].

Dev team, any comment?


Furthermore, you cannot "Add Service Reference" to a program References like C#.

Jamal

For greater clarity.
I must be able to ask a web server for information such as the values contained in a database table or for example to receive in XML format the result of a processing performed on the web server.

Danilo

Jamal,
There is a semi colon missing after the attribute, and you should name it Method in stead of Function

Robert

Robert,

Thanks, I modified the code and added some comments.

And here is how it is called:

Jamal

I think you are talking about consuming a web service and generating class via the Add Service Reference.

Robert, why is it missing and is there a plan to implement it (C# screenshot below)?

Jamal,
The semi colon is needed because the CRLF after [WebMethod] is a statement delimiter. By adding the semi colon the attribute belongs to the following line.
You can also write
[WebMethod] public method Add()

Robert

Jamal,

I will see of I can add this (Add Service Reference) in the X# project system.

Robert

Hi Danilo,

I haven't done it with X#, but with C# we use web services running under WCF. This works very well, and I can't see any reason why it couldn't be done with X#. Stuff like serialisation of data transmitted is all handled automatically, so once you've got it up and running it's very easy to use.

Nick

Hi Nick/Danilo

NickFriend wrote: Hi Danilo,
I haven't done it with X#, but with C# we use web services running under WCF. This works very well, and I can't see any reason why it couldn't be done with X#. Stuff like serialisation of data transmitted is all handled automatically, so once you've got it up and running it's very easy to use.

I have never done a X# web service directly, but have done web services with a c# wrapper that actually have X# code behind. No problem in consuming web services from a X# application, even through dynamic HttpRe<classname> calls. Cannot comment about aspx web front-ends though... But the back-end can be X#.

The reason is that I have to run complex code of my application and then return the result as an xml file.
So to summarize, if I understand correctly, the call to the web service takes place through the public method contained in the CLASS MathServices, which can return values of any type; and to return a file? it's possible? I imagine so.

thank you to all.

Danilo

Hi Danilo,

it is also possible to write an X# service and respond directly to the requests.

You can find a sample here:
www.riedmann.it/download/VulcanHttpListener.viaef

I'm using an application based on this sample for several years now on a customers server. The beauty of this solution is that you don't need anything special, as it does not needs any webserver, but uses http.sys that is part of every Windows installation.
The bad notice is that you have to do all by yourself - every input and output processing. This may be to much for a complex website, but is ok for a webservice, where the frontend could be built by a normal webserver.

Wolfgang

wrote: The reason is that I have to run complex code of my application and then return the result as an xml file.
So to summarize, if I understand correctly, the call to the web service takes place through the public method contained in the CLASS MathServices, which can return values of any type; and to return a file? it's possible? I imagine so.
thank you to all.

Danilo, am I correct in assuming you have a desktop client that you want to interface to a webservice?
In that case google WSDL, you will find how to create a "local" client for the webservice that you link into your application which will have all the interfaces to communicate with the webservice, no worry about having to convert to xml etc.

Attached a class that I wrote in the Vulcan days to create a c# assembly that you can then use to communicate with the webservice.

Hope this helps.

Thank you Wolfgang, Precious as usual

Danilo

I have to provide information processed by my web application, written in XSharp, to an app that will run on an Android or Apple smartphone

Danilo

wrote: I have to provide information processed by my web application, written in XSharp, to an app that will run on an Android or Apple smartphone

The only thing you have to do is to [WebMethod] what you want exposed with a return type, the web server (IIS, Apache) will handle the rest of converting to xml and pass to the client.

Hi Johan,

To be able the access the web service, CORS has to be setup properly in the Global.asax file and the a Public Interface has to be created as [ServiceContract] and each method has to be declared, but then I found WCF generation in X# is not correct (it's generating X# and C# code!!). Please see my other post (WCF generation incorrect). Also, It seems now there is no X# template to create a web application, so WCF in X# right may not be ready. I did not see it in the 2019 Road Map.

Jamal