How do I get the XML SOAP request of an WCF Web service request?

Question

I\'m calling this web service within code and I would like to see the XML, but I can\'t find a property that exposes it.

Answer 1

I am using below solution for IIS hosting in ASP.NET compatibility mode. Credits to Rodney Viana's MSDN blog.

Add following to your web.config under appSettings:

Replace your global.asax.cs with below (also fix namespace name):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.SessionState;

using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Configuration;

namespace Yournamespace
{
    public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        protected static bool LogFlag;
        protected static string fileNameBase;
        protected static string ext = "log";

        // One file name per day
        protected string FileName
        {
            get
            {
                return String.Format("{0}{1}.{2}", fileNameBase, DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"), ext);
            }
        }

        protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            LogFlag = bool.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LogRequestResponse"].ToString());
            fileNameBase = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LogPath"].ToString() + @"\C5API-";   
        }

        protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (LogFlag) 
            {                
                // Creates a unique id to match Rquests with Responses
                string id = String.Format("Id: {0} Uri: {1}", Guid.NewGuid(), Request.Url);
                FilterSaveLog input = new FilterSaveLog(HttpContext.Current, Request.Filter, FileName, id);
                Request.Filter = input;
                input.SetFilter(false);
                FilterSaveLog output = new FilterSaveLog(HttpContext.Current, Response.Filter, FileName, id);
                output.SetFilter(true);
                Response.Filter = output;
            }
        }

        protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        protected void Application_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    }

    class FilterSaveLog : Stream
    {

        protected static string fileNameGlobal = null;
        protected string fileName = null;

        protected static object writeLock = null;
        protected Stream sinkStream;
        protected bool inDisk;
        protected bool isClosed;
        protected string id;
        protected bool isResponse;
        protected HttpContext context;

        public FilterSaveLog(HttpContext Context, Stream Sink, string FileName, string Id)
        {
            // One lock per file name
            if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fileNameGlobal) || fileNameGlobal.ToUpper() != fileNameGlobal.ToUpper())
            {
                fileNameGlobal = FileName;
                writeLock = new object();
            }
            context = Context;
            fileName = FileName;
            id = Id;
            sinkStream = Sink;
            inDisk = false;
            isClosed = false;
        }

        public void SetFilter(bool IsResponse)
        {


            isResponse = IsResponse;
            id = (isResponse ? "Reponse " : "Request ") + id;

            //
            // For Request only read the incoming stream and log it as it will not be "filtered" for a WCF request
            //
            if (!IsResponse)
            {
                AppendToFile(String.Format("at {0} --------------------------------------------", DateTime.Now));
                AppendToFile(id);

                if (context.Request.InputStream.Length > 0)
                {
                    context.Request.InputStream.Position = 0;
                    byte[] rawBytes = new byte[context.Request.InputStream.Length];
                    context.Request.InputStream.Read(rawBytes, 0, rawBytes.Length);
                    context.Request.InputStream.Position = 0;

                    AppendToFile(rawBytes);
                }
                else
                {
                    AppendToFile("(no body)");
                }
            }

        }

        public void AppendToFile(string Text)
        {
            byte[] strArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Text);
            AppendToFile(strArray);

        }

        public void AppendToFile(byte[] RawBytes)
        {
            bool myLock = System.Threading.Monitor.TryEnter(writeLock, 100);


            if (myLock)
            {
                try
                {

                    using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
                    {
                        stream.Position = stream.Length;
                        stream.Write(RawBytes, 0, RawBytes.Length);
                        stream.WriteByte(13);
                        stream.WriteByte(10);

                    }

                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    string str = string.Format("Unable to create log. Type: {0} Message: {1}\nStack:{2}", ex, ex.Message, ex.StackTrace);
                    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(str);
                    System.Diagnostics.Debug.Flush();


                }
                finally
                {
                    System.Threading.Monitor.Exit(writeLock);


                }
            }


        }


        public override bool CanRead
        {
            get { return sinkStream.CanRead; }
        }

        public override bool CanSeek
        {
            get { return sinkStream.CanSeek; }
        }

        public override bool CanWrite
        {
            get { return sinkStream.CanWrite; }
        }

        public override long Length
        {
            get
            {
                return sinkStream.Length;
            }
        }

        public override long Position
        {
            get { return sinkStream.Position; }
            set { sinkStream.Position = value; }
        }

        //
        // For WCF this code will never be reached
        //
        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            int c = sinkStream.Read(buffer, offset, count);
            return c;
        }

        public override long Seek(long offset, System.IO.SeekOrigin direction)
        {
            return sinkStream.Seek(offset, direction);
        }

        public override void SetLength(long length)
        {
            sinkStream.SetLength(length);
        }

        public override void Close()
        {

            sinkStream.Close();
            isClosed = true;
        }

        public override void Flush()
        {

            sinkStream.Flush();
        }

        // For streamed responses (i.e. not buffered) there will be more than one Response (but the id will match the Request)
        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            sinkStream.Write(buffer, offset, count);
            AppendToFile(String.Format("at {0} --------------------------------------------", DateTime.Now));
            AppendToFile(id);
            AppendToFile(buffer);
        }

    }
}

It should create log file in the folder LogPath with request and response XML.