Sending Parameters thro WEB get method in REST services

Question

Dear All,

I am trying to send parameters in the WEB -GET method but nothing seems to work. Please find the below sample which I am trying right now,

public interface IService    { [OperationContract]        [WebGet(UriTemplate = "User?username={username}&password={password}", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped)]        Stream Signin(string username, string password);}

On executing the above method,  it just says, 405 Method not allowed.

I even tried with the Web-invoke with METHOD type as GET, It doesn't even work. For our scenario, we need to achieve this with GET only.

Please help.

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Many thanks,

Balaji Palamadai

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Answer 1

Hello, make sure you're using webHttpBinding and you have the webHttp behavior. Something like:

<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior>
<webHttp/>
 </behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>

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Answer 2

Can you post your config file and also how you are hosting your service? 

Try to perform a GET from Fiddler and the request should looks something like below:

GET http://localhost/SampleApp/Service1.svc/User?username=test&password=testpassword HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/xml
Host: localhost

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Rajesh S V

Answer 3

@Yi-Lun Luo:

hii I have tried that already, it doesn't seem to work, I am pasting the config below which I tried,

<services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration="omkar.HomeManagement.omkarServiceBehavior" name="omkar.HomeManagement.IomkarService">
        <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="omkar.HomeManagement.IomkarService">
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost" />
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="web" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="omkar.HomeManagement.IomkarService" >
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
    </services>

@Rajesh S V : 

We don't do any special hosting for our REST services, we just leave that to default. I haven't tried the GET from fiddler, will try and let you know.

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Balaji Palamadai

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Answer 4

In your config entry the service element has the name of the Interface "omkar.HomeManagement.IomkarService" whereas it should have the implemenatation class name. Once you change that should get it working. 

NOTE: The value for the name attribute of the service element should be fully qualified.

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Rajesh S V

Answer 5

@Rajesh S V: Thanks for the reply, We tried that , still didn't work. 

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Answer 6

I noticed you have used "web" as your relative address for the webHttpBinding endpoint. Make sure you're connecting to the correct address. For example: http://localhost/SampleApp/Service1.svc/web/...

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Answer 7

For the above config your Raw GET request would looks as below:

GET http://localhost/SampleApp/Service1.svc/web/User?username=test&password=testpassword HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/xml
Host: localhost

Also you would have changed the name attribute value in service element to the implementation class.

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Rajesh S V