i'm in the process of writing a gateway application. It speaks SOAP out of one side of it's mouth and a proprietary network application protocol out the other.
My application would be much more beautiful and easy to maintain if i had the following two bits of interface to .net/mono capability.
1. i want to trampoline incoming webmethods to invocations to send an appropriately formatted message to a tcp stream connected to my app. That is, i would like to get the current (web) method and it's arguments. i would prefer not to copy the incoming arguments to an invocation but to generically call an api that will return a data structure providing all the information associated with the method invocation, including method name and actuals ( a.k.a. arguments). i can then pass this data structure to my stream formatter to format appropriately for the network stream.
2. i would like to have the format of the .net/mono binary formatter. It does the work i need to do except that it puts some extra stuff into the stream. Currently, i have a hack in which i drop markers into the stream and pull out the bytes between the markers to get the appropriately formatted bytes for the packet i need to send. Obviously, this is a brittle solution. If i had the format the binary serializer uses, then i could extract them in a better way. Even better, if i had an API that allowed me to extract naturally distinct pieces, e.g. just member data, excluding class name or member name data or even size information, then i could have a very robust and generic application.
In fact, i would argue that with the two pieces of API you have a generic framework for writing such gateway applications and considering the number of proprietary protocols there are in the world, this probably has wide applicability.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes,
--greg
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Seattle, WA 98103
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