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Smells like a domain-specific language for using WCF
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No, not these kinds of domain-specific languages (DSL)...
I must admit, the following code has a not too small degree of sexiness. The DSL-iness is not just for WCF but for a number of mainly dependency-injection-related scenarios, but obviously I tend to care more about WCF :)
Service side:
var windsorContainer = new WindsorContainer()
.AddFacility<WcfFacility>()
.Register(
Component.For<LoggingInterceptor>(),
Component.For<IMyContract>().ImplementedBy<MyService>()
.ActAs(new DefaultServiceModel().AddEndpoints(
WcfEndpoint
.BoundTo(new NetTcpBinding())
.At("net.tcp://localhost/MyService/internal")
)
)
);
Consumer side:
var windsorContainer = new WindsorContainer()
.AddFacility<WcfFacility>()
.Register(WcfClient.ForChannels(
new DefaultClientModel()
{
Endpoint = WcfEndpoint.ForContract<IMyContract>()
.BoundTo(new NetTcpBinding())
.At("net.tcp://localhost/MyService/internal")
})
)
);
I am currently investigating a bit into Windsor Castle and its WCF facility. What I see until now I like, but I am just at the beginning.
There is a lot more in Windsor's WCF support which is worth digging into - all in all these features are aimed to make using WCF a bit more natural and a bit more straight-forward.
Some feature points from the latest release:
*Client Side:
- Automatic generation of WCF client channels when a component has been configured for WCF Client capabilities.
- Any Endpoint or Operation behaviors registered in the kernel will be attached to the channels.
- Automatic cleanup of channel proxy when component is released (channel.Close() vs channel.Abort), i.e. no need to cast proxy to IChannel and call Dispose.
- Automatic detection of unhanded channel faults and re-acquisition of new channel proxy. You can continue to use client proxy even after an exception occurs (by default WCF makes all faulted channels unavailable).
- Ability to use the client channel configuration from app.config/web.config
- Custom registration provider to simplify batch registration of channels
- Client extensibility interface IClientChannelBuilder. Supports plugging in other ways to create channels (e.g. REST-ful services)
*Service Side:
- Automatic management of ServiceHost when a component is configured for WCF Service capabilities.
- Any Service, Endpoint or Operation behaviors registered in the kernel will be attached to the channels.
- Ability to use the service channel configuration from app.config/web.config
- Service extensibility interface IServiceHostBuilder. Support for plugging in other ways to create ServiceHosts.
More to investigate...
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