Can't get my custom attribute from web method

[Brad Wood]

I've added my custom attribute to a web service's method. When I
consume the web service and attempt to check the value of the attribute,
it's not there, but the WebMethod attribute is. My attribute descends
from the same System.Attribut e class as the WebMethod attribute does.

Can anyone tell me why it has gone missing?

[Andrea Laperuta]

Post the code of the attribute and WebMethod.

Bye.

"Brad Wood" wrote:

I've added my custom attribute to a web service's method. When I
consume the web service and attempt to check the value of the attribute,
it's not there, but the WebMethod attribute is. My attribute descends
from the same System.Attribut e class as the WebMethod attribute does.

Can anyone tell me why it has gone missing?

[Brad Wood]

Andrea Laperuta wrote:

Post the code of the attribute and WebMethod.

// This is the web method. Results are the same whether
// I decorate it with a WebMethod attribute or not.
[StringAttribute ("blah")]
public string getResultCode()
{
return mResult;
}

// StringAttribute is my custom attribute that I have used many times:
public class StringAttribute : System.Attribut e
{
private string mString;
public StringAttribute (string s): base()
{
mString = s;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return mString;
}
}

// I use this method to get the value of the StringAttribute passing
// the web service object and the method name "getResultCode" .
// This works fine in all other instances including from within
// the web service itself.
// When I debug through this code, obj contains a
// WebMethod attribute when I add that additional attribute,
// but not my StringAttribute .
public static string getAttribValue( Object obj, string memberName)
{
// I presume this is an array to account for overloaded methods...
MemberInfo[] mi = obj.GetType().G etMember(member Name);
if ( mi.Length > 0 )
{
foreach( MemberInfo currentMI in mi )
{
Attribute ca = Attribute.GetCu stomAttribute(c urrentMI,
typeof(StringAt tribute));
if ( ca != null )
{
return attrToString( ca );
}
}
return string.Empty;
}
else
{
return string.Empty;
}

}

[Andrea Laperuta]

Sorry for the long time you waited, but I was busy, however I tried your
code and I have to tell you that works fine on my pc!

I think that the problem isn't in the code.

Let me now if you have more clues...

Bye.

"Brad Wood" wrote:

Andrea Laperuta wrote:

Post the code of the attribute and WebMethod.

// This is the web method. Results are the same whether
// I decorate it with a WebMethod attribute or not.
[StringAttribute ("blah")]
public string getResultCode()
{
return mResult;
}

// StringAttribute is my custom attribute that I have used many times:
public class StringAttribute : System.Attribut e
{
private string mString;
public StringAttribute (string s): base()
{
mString = s;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return mString;
}
}

// I use this method to get the value of the StringAttribute passing
// the web service object and the method name "getResultCode" .
// This works fine in all other instances including from within
// the web service itself.
// When I debug through this code, obj contains a
// WebMethod attribute when I add that additional attribute,
// but not my StringAttribute .
public static string getAttribValue( Object obj, string memberName)
{
// I presume this is an array to account for overloaded methods...
MemberInfo[] mi = obj.GetType().G etMember(member Name);
if ( mi.Length > 0 )
{
foreach( MemberInfo currentMI in mi )
{
Attribute ca = Attribute.GetCu stomAttribute(c urrentMI,
typeof(StringAt tribute));
if ( ca != null )
{
return attrToString( ca );
}
}
return string.Empty;
}
else
{
return string.Empty;
}

}

[Dilip Krishnan]

Where are you trying to check for this Attribute? If its in the proxy
you will not find it there

Brad Wood wrote:

Andrea Laperuta wrote:

Post the code of the attribute and WebMethod.

// This is the web method. Results are the same whether
// I decorate it with a WebMethod attribute or not.
[StringAttribute ("blah")]
public string getResultCode()
{
return mResult;
}

// StringAttribute is my custom attribute that I have used many times:
public class StringAttribute : System.Attribut e
{
private string mString;
public StringAttribute (string s): base()
{
mString = s;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return mString;
}
}

// I use this method to get the value of the StringAttribute passing
// the web service object and the method name "getResultCode" .
// This works fine in all other instances including from within
// the web service itself.
// When I debug through this code, obj contains a
// WebMethod attribute when I add that additional attribute,
// but not my StringAttribute .
public static string getAttribValue( Object obj, string memberName)
{
// I presume this is an array to account for overloaded methods...
MemberInfo[] mi = obj.GetType().G etMember(member Name);
if ( mi.Length > 0 )
{
foreach( MemberInfo currentMI in mi )
{
Attribute ca = Attribute.GetCu stomAttribute(c urrentMI,
typeof(StringAt tribute));
if ( ca != null )
{
return attrToString( ca );
}
}
return string.Empty;
}
else
{
return string.Empty;
}

}

--
HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

[Brad Wood]

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

Where are you trying to check for this Attribute? If its in the proxy
you will not find it there

I don't understand the question, "If its in the proxy
you will not find it there". ???

[Dilip Krishnan]

If you try to check the web service attributes in a web service proxy
class you will not find it there. Web service proxy class is the class
that you use to call methods on a web service. Usually has the same name
as the service and can be created by "Adding web reference..."

Brad Wood wrote:

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

Where are you trying to check for this Attribute? If its in the proxy
you will not find it there

I don't understand the question, "If its in the proxy
you will not find it there". ???

--
HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

[Brad Wood]

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

If you try to check the web service attributes in a web service proxy
class you will not find it there.

That's not true; as I mentioned, the WebMethod attribute is present in
the proxy object and my custom attribute was present in past builds.

[Dilip Krishnan]

Hello Brad,

Are you sure you had a WebMethod attribute in your proxy? I would seriously
doubt that

HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

If you try to check the web service attributes in a web service proxy
class you will not find it there.

That's not true; as I mentioned, the WebMethod attribute is present in
the proxy object and my custom attribute was present in past builds.

[Brad Wood]

Dilip Krishnan wrote:

Hello Brad,

Are you sure you had a WebMethod attribute in your proxy? I would
seriously doubt that

When I programmaticall y search through the attribute collection of my
proxy object (from my test harness), I do in fact find the
WebMethodAttrib ute object in there. And I am quite certain that I
*used* to find my custom attribute as well, but I was using Delphi.net
at the time, so it undoubtedly created the proxy dll differently.

BTW, where the heck is the proxy dll? Is it buried in the framework
folders? I can't find it.