Environment: C#, .Net 3.5, Sql Server 2005
I have a method that works in a stand-alone C# console application project. It creates an XMLElement from data in the database and uses a private method to send it to a web service on our local network. When run from VS in this test project, it runs in < 5 seconds.
I copied the class into a CLR project, built it, and installed it in SQL Server (WITH PERMISSION_SET = EXTERNAL_ACCESS). The only difference is the SqlContext.Pipe.Send() calls that I added for debugging.
I am testing it by using an EXECUTE command one stored procedure (in the CLR) from an SSMS query window. It never returns. When I stop execution of the call after a minute, the last thing displayed is "Calling GetResponse() using http://servername:53694/odata.svc/Customers/". Any ideas as to why the GetResponse() call doesn't return when executing within SQL Server?
private static string SendPost(XElement entry, SqlString url, SqlString entityName)
{
// Send the HTTP request
string serviceURL = url.ToString() + entityName.ToString() + "/";
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(serviceURL);
request.Method = "POST";
request.Accept = "application/atom+xml,application/xml";
request.ContentType = "application/atom+xml";
request.Timeout = 20000;
request.Proxy = null;
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
entry.WriteTo(writer);
}
try
{
SqlContext.Pipe.Send("Calling GetResponse() using " + request.RequestUri);
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
SqlContext.Pipe.Send("Back from GetResponse()");
/*
string feedData = string.Empty;
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
feedData = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
*/
HttpStatusCode StatusCode = ((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusCode;
response.Close();
if (StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Created /* 201 */ )
{
return "Created @ Location= " + response.Headers["Location"];
}
return "Creation failed; StatusCode=" + StatusCode.ToString();
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
return ex.Message.ToString();
}
finally
{
if (request != null)
request.Abort();
}
}
The problem turned out to be the creation of the request content from the XML. The original:
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
entry.WriteTo(writer);
}
The working replacement:
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(requestStream))
{
entry.WriteTo(writer);
}
}