Calling a Web Api from a WCF client

Question

Yes , I know its kind of weird .

I have a web app running with 4.5 Framework. It has some Wcf clients configured in web.config to access the usual soap services.

Now I am in a situation where I need to call some Web Api ( whose implementation I don't have access to) and I configured a simple reusable client to be able to use the same syntax for any of them. The client works fine but it reads the configuration of each web api client from an external xml file, which could not be allowed in the production release. 

The configuration requires a minimal complexity , like in the schema below :

 

<microServices>

<microService name="WS1">

<url>...</url>

<jwtToken>…..</jwtToken>

<clientID>80da6...</clientID>

<clientSecret>cf327...</clientSecret>

</microService>

<microService name="Ws2">

<url>...</url>

<jwtToken>…..</jwtToken>

<clientID>......</clientID>

<clientSecret>......</clientSecret>

</microService>

……

…..

</microServices>

 

but i can hardly realize this kind of schema in the web.config of the application, that's why I'm using an external file .  Is there a way to put this kind of configuration in the web.config without making it too complex ?

Moreover, is it possible to configure a <system.serviceModel><client><endpoint ..> .....  entry for a call to a Web Api ? yes I know it's bizarre, to make  a Rest call from a WCF client to a web api, but due to the previous potential problems (inability to use an external file in production and impossibility to insert rest client configuration in web.config) I am just exploring a third option ...

Answer 1

Hi @leo del ciello,

is it possible to configure a <system.serviceModel><client><endpoint ..> .....  entry for a call to a Web Api ?

As far as I know this should be impossible.

Maybe you could try using <appSettings>.

<appSettings> element for <configuration>

How to: Read application settings

The <appSettings> element stores custom application configuration information, such as database connection strings, file paths, XML Web service URLs, or any other custom configuration information for an application. The key/value pairs specified in the <appSettings> element are accessed in code using the ConfigurationSettings class.

Best regards,
Lan Huang

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