Do not expose enum in WCF response

Posted by Michael Freidgeim on Geeks with Blogs See other posts from Geeks with Blogs or by Michael Freidgeim
Published on Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:18:06 GMT Indexed on 2012/04/14 5:30 UTC
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We had a backward compatibility problem in WCF client, when in Service application a new value was added to one of enums. We discussed different ways to avoid this backward compatibility issues, and I found recommendation do not expose enum in wcf response in http://stackoverflow.com/a/788281/52277.

It is still required to create new versions of our service interfaces to replace each enum fields with string field, that expects only documented values, and describe, what should be default behavior, if field has an unexpected value.

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