HttpRequestMessageProperty.Method Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.ServiceModel.Channels

Assembly:

System.ServiceModel.Http.dll

Package:

System.ServiceModel.Http v8.0.0

Source:

HttpRequestMessageProperty.cs

Gets or sets the HTTP verb for the HTTP request.

public:
 property System::String ^ Method { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public string Method { get; set; }

member this.Method : string with get, set

Public Property Method As String

Property Value

String

The HTTP verb for the HTTP request.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

The value is set to null.

Examples

The following code gets an instance of this class from the message and then dispatches to different methods based on this property.

public Message ProcessMessage(Message request)
{
    Message response = null;

    //The HTTP Method (e.g. GET) from the incoming HTTP request
    //can be found on the HttpRequestMessageProperty. The MessageProperty
    //is added by the HTTP Transport when the message is received.
    HttpRequestMessageProperty requestProperties =
        (HttpRequestMessageProperty)request.Properties[HttpRequestMessageProperty.Name];

    //Here we dispatch to different internal implementation methods
    //based on the incoming HTTP verb.
    if (requestProperties != null)
    {
        if (String.Equals("GET", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = GetCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("POST", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = UpdateCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("PUT", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = AddCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("DELETE", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = DeleteCustomer(request);
        }
        else
        {
            //This service doesn't implement handlers for other HTTP verbs (such as HEAD), so we
            //construct a response message and use the HttpResponseMessageProperty to
            //set the HTTP status code to 405 (Method Not Allowed) which indicates the client 
            //used an HTTP verb not supported by the server.
            response = Message.CreateMessage(MessageVersion.None, String.Empty, String.Empty);

            HttpResponseMessageProperty responseProperty = new HttpResponseMessageProperty();
            responseProperty.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.MethodNotAllowed;

            response.Properties.Add( HttpResponseMessageProperty.Name, responseProperty );
        }
    }
    else
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException( "This service requires the HTTP transport" );
    }

    return response;
}

Public Function ProcessMessage(ByVal request As Message) As Message Implements IUniversalContract.ProcessMessage
    Dim response As Message = Nothing

    'The HTTP Method (e.g. GET) from the incoming HTTP request
    'can be found on the HttpRequestMessageProperty. The MessageProperty
    'is added by the HTTP Transport when the message is received.
    Dim requestProperties As HttpRequestMessageProperty = CType(request.Properties(HttpRequestMessageProperty.Name), HttpRequestMessageProperty)

    'Here we dispatch to different internal implementation methods
    'based on the incoming HTTP verb.
    If requestProperties IsNot Nothing Then
        If String.Equals("GET", requestProperties.Method, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
            response = GetCustomer(request)
        ElseIf String.Equals("POST", requestProperties.Method, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
            response = UpdateCustomer(request)
        ElseIf String.Equals("PUT", requestProperties.Method, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
            response = AddCustomer(request)
        ElseIf String.Equals("DELETE", requestProperties.Method, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
            response = DeleteCustomer(request)
        Else
            'This service doesn't implement handlers for other HTTP verbs (such as HEAD), so we
            'construct a response message and use the HttpResponseMessageProperty to
            'set the HTTP status code to 405 (Method Not Allowed) which indicates the client 
            'used an HTTP verb not supported by the server.
            response = Message.CreateMessage(MessageVersion.None, String.Empty, String.Empty)

            Dim responseProperty As New HttpResponseMessageProperty()
            responseProperty.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.MethodNotAllowed

            response.Properties.Add(HttpResponseMessageProperty.Name, responseProperty)
        End If
    Else
        Throw New InvalidOperationException("This service requires the HTTP transport")
    End If

    Return response
End Function

Remarks

By default, WCF uses the POST verb for HTTP messages. The GET verb is used by WCF to display help information when accessing a ServiceHost's base address. This is useful for checking whether a WCF service is active when using a Web browser. Other methods defined by the HTTP RFC are PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE, and CONNECT. These methods have special behaviors when interoperating with other services.