Folks, I'm building a pretty standard workflow that I want exposed via a WCF endpoint - I'm using the "WCF Service Application" project template and I've got a .xamlx service. This is a very simple document interchange workflow service - I want consumers to POST me a blob of XML as the body of an HTTP post (with HTTP headers containing authentication tokens). In response, these consumers will get a blob of XML containing the reply. 2 goals for me using REST/POX here are the document/message-based nature of the interaction AND I want to make client development easy for non-.NET environments (especially limited environments like Silverlight and iPhone).
I don't really see how to make this possible using out of the box features (unless I'm missing something). Does anybody know how to create a RESTful (or even REST-ish, I'm not picky) endpoint for a WF4 service-hosted workflow? Any info leading in the right direction here would be great.
There are no out of the box activities that will allow you to use REST with WF, the Receice is pure SOAP.
You can either build a custom REST Receive activity and use that with your workflow. Depending on your needs this is going to be quite a handful to a lot of work. The easy option is use use a standard REST WCF endpoint and convert the REST data to SOAP, pass rhe request on to the workflow, and do the reverse on the result message.