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I am considering building some services using the new Web API that’s introduced in ASP.NET MVC 4 (currently in beta version). I am quite clear on the way these services can be invoked using REST which returns responses either in JSON or xml.
However is there a way where I can add these services reference in client application and generate stubs for response objects, similar to the way .NET response objects are created when we add a WSDL reference.
ASP.NET Web API does not have any such built in capability. Short of providing some WSDL-like metadata information that the existing VS tooling could read VS 2010 does not have a way to create a CLR object from a JSON service.
However, another approach you could consider is to create a simple class library with the DTO (data transfer objects) classes that could be used by both the server and the client.