Question

I have a WCF service that needs to return different types of Quotes
(ie Quote1, Quote2, Quote3) — all inherit from Quote

My plan is to expose a single method

Quote GetQuote(Message message);

However then I am forcing the client to do something like this

if (quote is Quote1)
elseif (quote is Quote2) etc

Without having a different method for each quote type is there a good way to distinguish Quotes without having the client cast to each type?

Anyone have any suggestions on a better way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using DataContracts then you can decorate them with the KnownTypeAttribute.