RESTful WCF Services

We will understand steps with an example of maintaining players list

Steps to create Wcf REST service 

1. It requires webHttpBinding.
2. It requires <webHttp />  tag inside behavior tag.
3. Create wcf service application
4. Create methods for add, update, delete, get player
   
           Player GetPlayer(string id);
           void AddPlayer(string name);
           void UpdatePlayer(string id, string name);
           void DeletePlayer(string id);
           List<Player> GetPlayers();
5. Mark created methods with below given methods
                1. WebGet
                2. WebInvoke
   
   
   
6. Assign values of parameters in WebGet and WebInvoke as required

• UriTemplate : Set url format to access the method

• GetPlayer/{id}
• UpdatePlayer/{id}/{name}

• Method

• POST : To submit data to process
• PUT : To update resource
• DELETE : To delete resource

• RequestFormat

• RequestFormat= WebMessageFormat.Xml
• RequestFormat= WebMessageFormat.Json

• ResponseFormat

• ResponseFormat= WebMessageFormat.Xml
• ResponseFormat= WebMessageFormat.Json

• BodyStyle

• Bare
• Wrapped
• WrappedRequest
• WrappedRespons

   
5. Service config settings

Note : In below given config settings 4th & 5th points are not compulsory.