Webservice with a Timer

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Hello,

I have a question I hope someone can answer. It is possible to create a webservice that loads data into memory and use a timer with that data? You see I created a program that reads from a file every five seconds and displays the data within the file after those five seconds but now I want to turn this into a webservice. Is this possible? If this is a stupid question I sincerely apologise

Posted 18-Mar-14 1:27am

JessiJane

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AndrewCharlz 18-Mar-14 7:42am

yeah sure, its possible to create a ws to load data into a memory and later you can use that data using any application..

suppose if u would like to refresh that data for every 5 sec all ull have to do is call that web service for every 5 sec . is that clear
so u want a webservice to load data into ur common memory am i right

Ankur^\m/ 18-Mar-14 8:06am

Are you talking about a windows service here? Both are different. From your question it seems you want a windows service. If that is the case, yes, it can be implemented as a windows service.

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Vibhav Ramcharan · Answer 1 · 2014-03-18T02:31:00

Hi,

Yes this is achievable, you could create a web service that reads the data from the file and stores in variable(s)/Model.
- The timer_tick method would execute code to read the file contents and store the contents in a static variable.
- When the web service method is is invoked, you return the contents of the static variable.

Note, the web service isn't a good place to code a timer. If there's code to execute every 5 seconds, your best bet is to go with a Windows service with a Timer executing your code 5s(Read the file); the contents of the file can be saved in a Data store(SQL Server) and the Web service would just read the latest data from the Data Store.