How to make call to WCF service from ASP.NET WebApi

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Is it possible to make call to WCF service from WebApi Controller?
For example lets say we have some random WCF Service that returns some data on call. Can we create WebApiController with Get method that gets this data from WCF?
What are possible ways to preform something like this, and some tutorials and examples are more then welcome, because I was unable to find them online.
Thanks! :)

Posted 22-Jan-15 21:08pm

Nemanja M

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SrikantSahu · Answer 1 · 2015-01-22T21:28:00

Hi,
Yes, it can be done . Below is a prototype code.
Ex:

C#

[HttpGet, Route("Employee/id/{id}")]
public EmployeeDetail GetEmployee(int id)
{
   //Create the client and provide the binding.
   //The WCF service (Employee Service) should be part of the service reference to the WebAPI project
    EmployeeServiceClient  client = new EmployeeServiceClient("binding");
    //Here Employee is a DataContract of the Employee Service.
    Employee emp =  client.getEmployeeDetail(id);
    //Convert the emp object to more user friendly object if required. else pass it directly.
    EmployeeDetail empDetail = ConvertEmployee(emp);
    return EmployeeDetail;
}

Thanks
Srikant