Can a WCF OperationContract method's WebGet attribute have multiple ResponseFormat types?

Question

I have a ServiceContract describing a method used in a WCF service. The method has a WebGet attribute which defines a UriTemplate and ResponseFormat.

I want to reuse a

Answer 1

You can do this

[ServiceContract]
public interface ICatalogService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebGet(UriTemplate = "product/{id}/details?format={format}")]
    Stream GetProduct(string id, string format);
}

And then in your code handle serialization based off the value specified on the parameter.

For XML write a helper method that handles your serialization.

public static Stream GetServiceStream(string format, string callback, DataTable dt, SyndicationFeed sf)
        {
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
            if (format == "xml")
            {
                XmlSerializer xmls = new XmlSerializer(typeof(DataTable));
                xmls.Serialize(writer, dt);
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/xml";
            }
            else if (format == "json")
            {
                var toJSON = new JavaScriptSerializer();
                toJSON.RegisterConverters(new JavaScriptConverter[] { new JavaScriptDataTableConverter() });
                writer.Write(toJSON.Serialize(dt));
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/json";
            }
            else if (format == "jsonp")
            {
                var toJSON = new JavaScriptSerializer();
                toJSON.RegisterConverters(new JavaScriptConverter[] { new JavaScriptDataTableConverter() });
                writer.Write(callback + "( " + toJSON.Serialize(dt) + " );");
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/json";
            }
            else if (format == "rss")
            {
                XmlWriter xmlw = new XmlTextWriter(writer);
                sf.SaveAsRss20(xmlw);
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/xml";
            }
            else if (format == "atom")
            {
                XmlWriter xmlw = new XmlTextWriter(writer);
                sf.SaveAsAtom10(xmlw);
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/xml";
            }
            else
            {
                writer.Write("Invalid formatting specified.");
                WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/html";
            }

            writer.Flush();
            stream.Position = 0;
            return stream;
        }
}