Question

I have several constant defined for a webservice, and I would like to make these available to consuming client. Both the server and client are .Net.

I think it is possible to achieve this by using enum’s, but many of my constants are text string with spaces, so I would have to write an extra function to convert the enum into the equivalent text string.

So, is there any way of defining the constants in the web service so they would then be available to the client??

Update (Kev): I want to expose them to the client via the web service itself, not via a separate assembly.
Update #2 (Paige): So if I understand you, I will then have a new List object containing the constants, but how does the client use that? Wouldn’t it look like (roughly):
dim constants as List = mywebservice.GetConstants()
dim someresult as Integer = mywebservice.somefunction(constants(3))
Unless I misunderstand you, that totally defeats the point of defining constants.

Answer 1

The answer seems be…..cannot be done.