Yes absolutely possible. Below example gives you the baseline for your requirement. In fact, the similar process is what happening when you do add service reference using visual studio. But only difference is, when you add service reference, the assembly fill will be created physically. But here, we are keeping everything in memory. In this example, we will download the WSDL from the WSDL url using a .Net helper class “WsdlImporter”. From that, the code finds all the Contracts and the endpoints available in the WSDL description. Then we create c# assembly with classes for contracts on the fly dynamically (Service Contract and Data Contract). Once we have the assembly, we will create proxy for the service and call the operation. This code may not be working 100% for all scenarios. This is not production ready. I have done anything related to security etc. But as I said, it would be a starting point for you.
public class ServiceDetail
{
public Uri WSDLUri { get; set; }
public Uri ServiceUri { get; set; }
public String ContractName { get; set; }
public string MethodName { get; set; }
}
public class GenericService
{
public void Call(ServiceDetail svc, List<object> payLoads)
{
//Import WSDL
WsdlImporter imptr = ImportWSDL(svc.WSDLUri);
//Extract Service and Data Contract Descriptions
Collection<ContractDescription> svcCtrDesc = imptr.ImportAllContracts();
//Compile the description to assembly
var assembly = GetAssembly(svcCtrDesc);
if (assembly == null) return;
//Extract all end points available on the WSDL
IDictionary<string, IEnumerable<ServiceEndpoint>> allEP = GetEndPointsOfEachServiceContract(imptr, svcCtrDesc);
IEnumerable<ServiceEndpoint> currentSvcEP;
if (allEP.TryGetValue(svc.ContractName, out currentSvcEP))
{
//Find the endpoint of the service to which the proxy needs to contact
var svcEP = currentSvcEP.First(x => x.ListenUri.AbsoluteUri == svc.ServiceUri.AbsoluteUri);
//Generate proxy
var proxy = GetProxy(svc.ContractName, svcEP, assembly);
//Deserialize each payload argument to object
List<object> pls = new List<object>();
foreach (var pl in payLoads)
{
object clrObj = null;
try
{
clrObj = Deserialize(pl.ToString(), assembly);
}
catch
{
clrObj = pl;
}
pls.Add(clrObj);
}
//Find opration contract on the proxy and invoke
proxy.GetType().GetMethod(svc.MethodName).Invoke(proxy, pls.ToArray());
}
return;
}
private Assembly GetAssembly(Collection<ContractDescription> svcCtrDesc)
{
CodeCompileUnit ccu = GetServiceAndDataContractCompileUnitFromWSDL(svcCtrDesc);
CompilerResults rslt = GenerateContractsAssemblyInMemory(new CodeCompileUnit[] { ccu });
if (!rslt.Errors.HasErrors)
return rslt.CompiledAssembly;
return null;
}
private object GetProxy(string ctrName, ServiceEndpoint svcEP, Assembly assembly)
{
Type prxyT = assembly.GetTypes().First(t => t.IsClass && t.GetInterface(ctrName) != null && t.GetInterface(typeof(ICommunicationObject).Name) != null);
object proxy = assembly.CreateInstance(prxyT.Name,false,System.Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance,
null,new object[] { svcEP.Binding, svcEP.Address },CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, null);
return proxy;
}
private WsdlImporter ImportWSDL(Uri wsdlLoc)
{
MetadataExchangeClient mexC = new MetadataExchangeClient(wsdlLoc, MetadataExchangeClientMode.HttpGet);
mexC.ResolveMetadataReferences = true;
MetadataSet metaSet = mexC.GetMetadata();
return new WsdlImporter(metaSet);
}
private Dictionary<string, IEnumerable<ServiceEndpoint>> GetEndPointsOfEachServiceContract(WsdlImporter imptr, Collection<ContractDescription> svcCtrDescs)
{
ServiceEndpointCollection allEP = imptr.ImportAllEndpoints();
var ctrEP = new Dictionary<string, IEnumerable<ServiceEndpoint>>();
foreach (ContractDescription svcCtrDesc in svcCtrDescs)
{
List<ServiceEndpoint> eps = allEP.Where(x => x.Contract.Name == svcCtrDesc.Name).ToList();
ctrEP.Add(svcCtrDesc.Name, eps);
}
return ctrEP;
}
private CodeCompileUnit GetServiceAndDataContractCompileUnitFromWSDL(Collection<ContractDescription> svcCtrDescs)
{
ServiceContractGenerator svcCtrGen = new ServiceContractGenerator();
foreach (ContractDescription ctrDesc in svcCtrDescs)
{
svcCtrGen.GenerateServiceContractType(ctrDesc);
}
return svcCtrGen.TargetCompileUnit;
}
private object Deserialize(string xml, Assembly assembly)
{
Type ctr = GetDataContractType(xml, assembly);
return Deserialize(xml, ctr);
}
private object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType)
{
using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
stream.Position = 0;
DataContractSerializer d = new DataContractSerializer(toType);
return d.ReadObject(stream);
}
}
private Type GetDataContractType(string xml, Assembly assembly)
{
var serializedXML = ConvertToXML(xml);
var match = assembly.GetTypes().First(x => x.Name == serializedXML.Root.Name.LocalName);
return match;
}
private XDocument ConvertToXML(string xml)
{
using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
stream.Position = 0;
return XDocument.Load(stream);
}
}
private CompilerResults GenerateContractsAssemblyInMemory(params CodeCompileUnit[] codeCompileUnits)
{
// Generate a code file for the contracts
CodeGeneratorOptions opts = new CodeGeneratorOptions();
opts.BracingStyle = "C";
CodeDomProvider pro = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("C#");
// Compile the code file to an in-memory assembly
// Don't forget to add all WCF-related assemblies as references
CompilerParameters prms = new CompilerParameters(new string[] { "System.dll", "System.ServiceModel.dll",
"System.Runtime.Serialization.dll"});
prms.GenerateInMemory = true;
prms.GenerateExecutable = false;
return pro.CompileAssemblyFromDom(prms, codeCompileUnits);
}
}
