Servicestack (rest) incorrect WSDL with mono - soap

Question

I've written a simple self-hosted (in a ConsoleApplication) rest service with service stack 3.9.70.
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
// service stack support
using ServiceStack.ServiceHost;
using ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints;
namespace HelloWorldConsole
{
namespace DTO
{
[DataContract(Namespace = "http://localhost:8080/types")]
[Route("/hello/{Name}")]
class Hello : IReturn<HelloResponse>
{
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
[DataContract(Namespace = "http://localhost:8080/types")]
class HelloResponse
{
[DataMember]
public string Response { get; set; }
}
}
class HelloService : IService
{
public Object Any(DTO.Hello request)
{
return new DTO.HelloResponse { Response = "Hello " + request.Name };
}
}
public class HelloHost : AppHostHttpListenerBase
{
public HelloHost()
: base("Hello Service Self-Host",
typeof(HelloService).Assembly)
{ }
public override void Configure(Funq.Container container)
{
SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig
{
DebugMode = true,
WsdlServiceNamespace = "http://localhost:8080/",
WsdlSoapActionNamespace = "http://localhost:8080/",
SoapServiceName = "HelloService"
});
}
}
class MainClass
{
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
string listenOn = "http://localhost:8080/";
HelloHost host = new HelloHost ();
host.Init ();
host.Start (listenOn);
Console.WriteLine ("AppHost created at {0} on {1}",
DateTime.Now, listenOn);
Console.ReadKey ();
}
}
}
Under Windows the generated WSDL is good, and if I try to create a client application and add a web reference to the soap service on localhost, I'm able to call Hello.
If I run the same code under Linux using Mono, the generated WSDL does not contain the types defined inside the DTO namespace. If I try to add a web service reference on a client, I'm not able to exploit hello method.
At this link I've read that by default the same ServiceStack Console app binary runs on both Windows/.NET and Mono/Linux as-is. I've tried to launch the binary under windows; the service runs but the generated WSDL is incorrect (without types defined in DTO namespace).
I use mono 2.10.8.1.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
I also have another question. If I use new version Servicestack last release (4.0.33) I'm not able to exploit soap endpoint.
At this link I've read that SOAP endpoints are not available when hosted on a HttpListener Host. Is it a feature introduced with new version 4.0?
Isn't there the posbility to exploit soap endpoints with servicestack releases higher than 3.9?
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Mono has a weak and partial WCF/SOAP support which will fail to generate WSDLs for many non-trivial Service definitions. This situation may improve in the near future now that Microsoft has Open Sourced .NET server libraries, but in the interim I recommend avoiding Mono if you want to use SOAP.