[Mono-list] WCF/JSON POST get error 415, expected content-type application/xml not application/json

[Iain Mcleod]

Hi

I'm trying to post json to a self-hosting wcf service which uses
WebHttpBinding/WebHttpBehaviour.  By self-hosting I mean that I am creating
my own service host and overriding its InitializeRuntime rather than using
IIS and a .svc file (code sample below).

For brevity I have not posted a full running example as it would be fairly
complex to recreate the code to serve the javascript but I have extracted
out hopefully enough details to identify whether this issue is something I'm
doing wrong or a bug in the current version of mono.
The long and short of it is that running under mono 2.6.3 on windows 7, I
get the following error:

415 Expected content-type 'application/xml; charset=utf-8' but got
'application/json; charset=UTF-8

However this works perfectly when running on .NET and I am trying to post
json so I would expect that the request content type should surely be
application/json and not application/xml as stated above?


Request headers:

Via	1.1 MYPROXY
Content-Length	0
Date	Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:23:31 GMT
Server	Mono-HTTPAPI/1.0

Host	MYPC:8000
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3)
Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Accept	text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language	en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding	gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive	115
Proxy-Connection	keep-alive
X-Requested-With	XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version	1.6.1
Content-Type	application/json; charset=UTF-8
Referer	http://MYPC:8000/
Content-Length	19


Request body: {}



public class MyServiceHost : ServiceHost

        private Type iServiceInterfaceType;
        public MyServiceHost (Type aServiceImplementationType, Type
aServiceInterfaceType, params Uri[] aBaseAddress)
        {
            base.InitializeDescription(aServiceImplementationType, new
UriSchemeKeyedCollection(aBaseAddress));
            this.iServiceInterfaceType = aServiceInterfaceType;
        }

protected override void InitializeRuntime()
        {
ServiceEndpoint endpoint = this.AddServiceEndpoint(iServiceInterfaceType,
                new WebHttpBinding(),
                String.Empty);
            endpoint.Behaviors.Add(new WebHttpBehavior());
            base.InitializeRuntime();
        }
}

My service interface looks something like this:
[ServiceContract]
    interface IMyService
    {
        [OperationContract, WebInvoke(Method = "POST", RequestFormat =
WebMessageFormat.Json, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, BodyStyle =
WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped)]
        Guid Open();
    }

and I am invoking it from my javascript client using a Prototype request
looking like the following:

var sendRequest = function(url, requestData, callback) {
        	return new Ajax.Request(url, {
			method: 'post', 
			postBody: Object.toJSON(requestData), 
			onSuccess: function(transport) {
				var result = transport.responseJSON;
                if (callback) { try { callback(eval("result." + methodName +
"Result")); } catch (e) {
	                if (typeof console != "undefined") { console.log("Exception
caught in callback eval." + e); } 
                
                 } }
            },
            onFailure : function (transport){            
                if (typeof console != "undefined") { console.log("JSON
Request error: " + transport.statusText); } 
            },
            contentType: "application/json"        });

var myURL = "...";
sendRequest(myURL, {}, function (result) {alert(result);} };


Anyone who can shed light on what I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful.

Regards
Iain Mcleod

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