Question

I have WCF service that I use with JSON.
Now I need to receive plain message (headers + text)
So, I expect to get string in fileContents but service fails because it’s not JSON-encoded.

How do I code my method to allow for that?

This is my method

[WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "/files/{fileName}")]
        public void UploadFile(string fileName, string fileContents)
        {

        }

And this is my service:

[ServiceContract]
    [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
    [ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerCall)]
    public class MobileService
    {

Answer 1

If you want to receive “raw” data, you need to receive the input (fileContents) as a System.IO.Stream. Take a look at the post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-receiving-arbitrary-data.aspx for more information.