how to send custom object to WCF REST Service in browser based url [duplicate]

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i have a serializable entity class of employee

public class Emp
{
  public int Id{get; set;}
  public string Name{get;set;}
}

i want to send object of this class to WCF REST Services from browser to test my add method which is given below

    [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "Employee/")]
    [OperationContract]
    string SaveEmployee(Emp Employee);

can anyone please tell me how to send custom object to WCF REST Service in browser based url

Answer 1

If you want to send the complex object in the URL (not in the message body), first of all, this is usually a bad idea (objects can be large, URIs have a size limit which you may end up hitting). But if this is really what you want, you can use a custom QueryStringConverter in your service which will know how to convert between the query string parameters and your object.

You can find more information about query string converters at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2011/08/09/wcf-extensibility-querystringconverter.aspx.

Answer 2

This blog post seems to cover what you're looking for.

http://saravananarumugam.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/simple-rest-implementation-with-webhttpbinding/