Good Day Everyone...

My understanding may be wrong, but I thought once you applied the correct attributes the DataContractSerializer would render fully-qualified instances back to the caller.

The code runs and the objects return. But oddly enough, once I look at the returned objects I noticed the namespacing disappeared and the object-hierarchy being exposed through the (web applications) service reference seems to become "flat" (somehow). Now, I expect this from a web-service…but not through WFC. Of course, my understanding of what WFC can do may be wrong.

...please keep in mind I'm still experimenting with all this.

So my questions are…

Q: Can I do something within the WFC Service to force the namespacing to render through the (service reference) data client proxy?

Q: Or perhaps, am I (merely) consuming the service incorrectly?

Q: Is this even possible?

The service code looks like…

[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerSession)]
public class DataService : IFishData
{
    public C1FE GetC1FE(Int32 key)
    {
         //… more stuff here …
    }
    public Project GetProject(Int32 key)
    {
      //… more stuff here …
    }
}

[ServiceContract]
[ServiceKnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE.New))]
[ServiceKnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project.New))]
public interface IFishData
{
     [OperationContract]
     C1FE GetC1FE(Int32 key);

     [OperationContract]
     Project GetProject(Int32 key);
}

[DataContract]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class Project
{
      [DataMember]
      public wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState ObjectState { get; set; }

      //… more stuff here …
}

[DataContract]
KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class C1FE
{
      [DataMember]
      public wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState ObjectState { get; set; }

   //… more stuff here …
}

[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE.New))]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project.New))]
public abstract class ObjectState
{
      //… more stuff here …
}

[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement.C1FE", Name="New")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class New : ObjectState
{
      //… more stuff here …
}

[DataContract(Namespace = "wcfFISH.StateManagement.Project", Name = "New")]
[KnownType(typeof(wcfFISH.StateManagement.ObjectState))]
public class New : ObjectState
{
      //… more stuff here …
}

The web application code looks like…

public partial class Fish_Invite : BaseForm
{
    protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       Project project = new Project();
       project.Get(base.ProjectKey, base.AsOf);

       mappers.Project mapProject = new mappers.Project();

       srFish.Project fishProject = new srFish.Project();
       srFish.FishDataClient fishService = new srFish.FishDataClient();

       mapProject.MapTo(project, fishProject);

       fishProject = fishService.AddProject(fishProject, IUser.UserName);

       project = null;
    }
}

In case I’m not being clear…

The issue arises as there is a difference in (the name spacing) that I expect to see (returned) is different from what is actually returned.

fishProject.ObjectState should look like...

srFish.StateManagement.Project.New

fishC1FE.ObjectState should look like...

srFish.StateManagement.C1FE.New

fishProject.ObjectState looks like...

srFish.New1

fishC1FE.ObjectState looks like...

srFish.New

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