WCF REST Service not visible in WCFTestClient

Question

I have successfully configured 3 endpoints for my prototype service. The endpoints are basicHttpBinding, wsHttpBinding, and webHttpBinding. The only glitch I have at the mom

Answer 1

try adding the "mexHttpBinding" endpoint that exposes the metadata

Answer 2

It's because web endpoints (unlike SOAP ones) do not expose metadata, so the test client doesn't know about it when it downloads the WSDL for the service. Unlike SOAP, which has well-defined formats for exposing metadata (WSDL, MEX), web (a.k.a. REST) endpoints do not.

That's the short story. If you want to know more details, I wrote a blog post about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2012/03/26/mixing-add-service-reference-and-wcf-web-http-a-k-a-rest-endpoint-does-not-work.aspx

Answer 3

The following is a list of features not supported by WCF Test Client:

• Types: Stream, Message, XmlElement, XmlAttribute, XmlNode, types that implement the IXmlSerializableinterface, including the related XmlSchemaProviderAttribute attribute, and the XDocument and XElement types and the ADO.NET DataTable type.

• Duplex contract.

• Transaction.

• Security: CardSpace , Certificate, and Username/Password.

• Bindings: WSFederationbinding, any Context bindings and Https binding, WebHttpbinding (Json response message support).

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552364.aspx