WCF 4 REST response header

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For the life of me I can not find a way to remove the automatically generated portion of my Get method.
given following code

C#

[WebGet(UriTemplate = "{id}", BodyStyle=WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, ResponseFormat=WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
public string Get(string id) {
return "blah";
}

I get following response.
<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">blah</string>

How can I get just "blah".
Many Thanks.

Posted 29-Mar-11 12:54pm

cechode

Updated 29-Mar-11 13:27pm

HimanshuJoshi

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HimanshuJoshi 29-Mar-11 19:28pm

Edited to improve readability.

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Solution 2

Instead of changing the method signature, I would do this:

HttpWebResponse restResponse = (HttpWebResponse)restRequest.GetResponse();
string value = null;

using (var st = restResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(st);
    value = sr.ReadToEnd();
}

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(value);
value = doc.InnerText;

Posted 29-Aug-12 16:25pm

GhanashyamL

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Patrick Kalkman · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-01T10:10:00

Solution 1

I think this will work, note the Stream as return argument.

[WebGet(UriTemplate = "{id}", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare)]
public Stream Get(string id)
{
  OutgoingWebResponseContext context = WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse;
  context.ContentType = "text/plain";
  return new System.IO.MemoryStream(ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes("blah"));
}

Posted 1-Apr-11 10:10am

Patrick Kalkman

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cechode 1-Apr-11 19:52pm

Awsome! many thanks. works like a charm