Question

I am designing a multi-file upload service that also shows upload
progress for each file.

If I was to design my WCF method as a SOAP contract, I would do
something like this:

var request = IService.UploadMethod(List<Upload> request);

But, how do I pass the parameter “”request”” of type “List<Upload>”
when I am calling the method from the client (../upload.svc/
uploadpictures/””request””)?

Help appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

You’re using SOAP as you say yourself – which means, you cannot just invoke your service methods from the URL (REST-style), as the second part of your posting would imply (../upload.svc/ uploadpictures/”request”).

What you need to do in SOAP is this (assuming you’ve created your client side proxy using Visual Studio or svcutil):

// create client side proxy, reading URI etc. from config
ServiceClient clientProxy = new ServiceClient();

List<Upload> _list = new List<Upload>();

// add your uploads - don't know what that is - just a filename? The actual
// contents of the file? That's up to you
_list.Add(..........);

var response = clientProxy.UploadMethod(_list);

Marc