Many thanks. i found the SOAP extension stuff just a few hours before your reply. As for the point about the formatter, i have implemented my own formatter. But, the point is the binary formatter already does most of the work i need to do except it adds extra information. In my specialized formatter i just want to extract the bit i need from what the binary formatter has already produced rather than have to write a great deal of formatting code that has already been implemented by binary formatter.
Best wishes,
--greg
On 8/3/06, Robert Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey,
L.G. Meredith wrote:
> 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.
Implement a SOAP extension:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">
> 2. i would like to have the format of the .net/mono binary formatter. It
I'm not sure why you need it, but here is it:
http://svn.myrealbox.com/viewcvs/trunk/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary/binary_serialization_format.htm?rev=27351&view=log
> 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.
Such an API doesn't make sense, unless it's intended to be used
by non-CLI languages (C/C++...).
You should implement a custom formatter, if you need this level of
control.
If you want to intercept remoting calls, you could insert a
custom server channel sink after the formatter sink and you'll
be able to access the remoting messages before they get dispatched.
Robert
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