I have an application that's been written in .NET framework 4.0 and exposes some endpoints through WCF.
I wrote a .NET 8 application that will communicate with the application using .NET Core WCF Client but when I test creating an item it results in an error
Column requires a valid DataType
After investigating found that the Guid
data type is System.Guid, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e
and the System is expecting System.Guid, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
.
I'm looking for a way to change the Guid
data type to the appropriate data type.
I have already tried the following:
Guid
fields to string
but returned that the column cannot be DBNull
The Solution was to implement a custom Binding that implements IClientMessageInspector
which provides a BeforeSendRequest
function that reference the Message
that will be sent to the endpoint.
In this Message
object I was able to extract the body as XElement
and modify the Guid
Assembly full Name to the appropriate one which led to the endpoint to accept it.
Below is the code for the ClientMessageInspector
public class ClientMessageInspector : IEndpointBehavior, IClientMessageInspector
{
public ClientMessageInspector() { }
public void AddBindingParameters(ServiceEndpoint endpoint, BindingParameterCollection bindingParameters)
{
}
public void AfterReceiveReply(ref Message reply, object correlationState)
{
}
public void ApplyClientBehavior(ServiceEndpoint endpoint, ClientRuntime clientRuntime)
{
clientRuntime.ClientMessageInspectors.Add(this);
}
public void ApplyDispatchBehavior(ServiceEndpoint endpoint, EndpointDispatcher endpointDispatcher)
{
}
public object BeforeSendRequest(ref Message request, IClientChannel channel)
{
XmlDictionaryReader xmlDictionary = request.GetReaderAtBodyContents();
XElement element = XElement.Load(xmlDictionary.ReadSubtree());
element.ReplaceGuidDataType();
request = Message.CreateMessage(request.Version,request.Headers.Action,element);
return null;
}
public void Validate(ServiceEndpoint endpoint)
{
}
}
I hope this helps anyone who's searching for similar solution