WCF Custom Message implementation

Question

In the context of a WCF project, I need to handle in the same way xml and non-xml messages (eg. Standard SOAP, WS-Attachments, etc..). The normal flow of WCF creates a Message object which can handle an Xml message, this is done by the encoder, so if one wants to handle different messages, it's needed to implement different kind of message-handling...

My needs is to create a message derivation class, which represent the concept of "received message" but not "handled" in the form of special data handling, but , about real data-handling, deferred in a secondary step.

so in the catch-all service I will get a Message messageObject as parameter, so the signature of the service will be Message Accept(Message messageObject)

Any idea? thanks in advance

Answer 1

There is only single base Message type in WCF. This is a core type which is used by WCF infrastructure. The type is abstract so generally you can create your custom implementation but in such case you will probably have to replace some WCF channels to correctly use your new type.

If you need to transport message in custom format you are probably not looking for replacing Message type but either replacing encoder, serializer or both.