I got an Employee
class and each employee has a list of applied leaves. Is it possible to have the list AppliedLeave
as a [DataMember]
in WCF?
[DataContract]
public class Employee
{
[DataMember]
public string UserID { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public int EmployeeNumber { get; set; }
[ForeignKey("EmployeeUserID")]
[DataMember]
public List<Leave> AppliedLeave
{
get { return _appliedLeaves; }
set { _appliedLeaves = value; }
}
private List<Leave> _appliedLeaves = new List<Leave>();
...
}
Is there any other way to do this?
thank you for your consideration of this matter
I extend my Question
This is my Leave Class:
[DataContract]
public class Leave
{
[Key()]
[DataMember]
public Guid LeaveId { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string LeaveType { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string EmployeeUserID { get; set; }
}
this shows ServiceContract ---->
[ServiceContract]
public interface IEmployeeService
{
[OperationContract]
Employee GetEmployeeByUserId(string userId);
[OperationContract]
void AssignSupervisor(string userId, string supervisorUserId);
[OperationContract]
void DeleteEmployeeByUserId(string userId);
....
}
In Client application,
EmployeeServiceClient employeeService = new EmployeeServiceClient();
Employee employee = employeeService.GetEmployeeByUserId(id);
But when Employee gathered from the service its shows Null for leaves,
Can somebody help me? what have I done wrong here?
Yes, it is possible to return generics from WCF service operations.
But by default they are casted to Array on client side. This can be customized while proxy generation.
WCF: Serialization and Generics
Also you have to decorate the service with all the types to which generics can be resolved, using KnownTypeAttribute.