Question

What is the best practice for emulating overloaded methods over WCF?

Typically I might write an interface like this

interface IInterface 
{
    MyType ReadMyType(int id);
    IEnumerable<MyType> ReadMyType(String name);
    IEnumerable<MyType> ReadMyType(String name, int maxResults);    
}

What would this interface look like after you converted it to WCF?

Answer 1

You can leave it like that if you like. Just use the name property of the OperationContract attribute.

[ServiceContract]
interface IInterface 
{
    MyType ReadMyType(int id);
    [OperationContract(Name= "Foo")]
    IEnumerable<MyType> ReadMyType(String name);
    [OperationContract(Name= "Bar")]
    IEnumerable<MyType> ReadMyType(String name, int maxResults);    
}