[Mono-dev] WCF REST POST POCO, and null value

[Joe Dluzen]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Atsushi Eno
<atsushieno at veritas-vos-liberabit.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (2010/11/25 5:42), Joe Dluzen wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently been familiarizing myself with the
>> System.ServiceModel.Web namespace, as I'm looking to do some WCF REST
>> style development.
>>
>> I've found 2 things that appear to be bugs, and am wondering if there
>> are workarounds, or if I can [attempt to] patch it.
>>
>> 1. When passing an object in the body of a POST call, I get "Unhandled
>> Exception: System.NotImplementedException: parameter user is not
>> contained in the URI template blah 0 0". IHello.SayHi2 in the included
>> code.
>>
>
> Interesting. Look like (the latest?) .NET allows such a URI template that
> ignores the user parameter.

Yes, I'm just trying to pass a bare POX object in the body.

>> 2. When passing null in the URI to a GET call with a named value, I
>> get "Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: The argument name
>> value collection does not contain non-null value for 'BLAH'". However,
>> when I GET in the browser, http://localhost:1337/Joe?age=1337 leaving
>> off the "blah", it works fine. IHello.SayHi in the included code.
>>
>> On Win7 64, Mono 2.8.1. The code works without issue on MS.NET.
>>
>
> I couldn't reproduce this with our git master. It might be fixed between 2.8
> and master, but it rather looks like the request is sent to the SayHi  (not
> SayHi2) and hence blah isn't involved, so, is it really what you intended?

Yes, I was trying to pass blah as null in code, to SayHi. The server
code looks like it works though, as the request completes as expected
in the browser using http://localhost:1337/Joe?age=1337.

>> Code:
>> Shared library: http://pastebin.com/WSfiaj63
>> Server: http://pastebin.com/veJ9JubX
>> Client: http://pastebin.com/jniuHsiz
>>
> Can you please file a bug on bugzilla and attach them?

Most definitely:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656020
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656021

> Thanks,
> Atsushi Eno