webHttpBinding – REST in WCF (Part 1)

REST stands for Representational State Transfer

It basically means exposing services

• based on URI
• encode message without the overhead of SOAP
• pass parameter using HTTP
• format data using JSON or POX

Service Contract

Get the complete code solution from this SVN url : http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/TechnologyAndMe/RestTimeService

using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;

[ServiceContract]
public interface ITimeService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebGet]
    string Now(string GMT);
}

Web.Config

   
 
  
                   behaviorConfiguration="webBehavior">
    
     
    
   
  
 
 
  
   
        
   
  
 

Now to access the service hit the service with this url

http://localhost:3048/TimeService.svc/Now?GMT=1


The output is as follows

GMT 14/18/2010 23:23:58