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BodyWriter Class

Represents the writer of the message body.

System.Object
  System.ServiceModel.Channels.BodyWriter
    System.ServiceModel.Channels.StreamBodyWriter

Namespace:  System.ServiceModel.Channels
Assembly:  System.ServiceModel (in System.ServiceModel.dll)
public abstract class BodyWriter

The BodyWriter type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Protected method Supported by Portable Class Library BodyWriter Initializes a new instance of the BodyWriter class that explicitly indicates whether to buffer.
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  Name Description
Public property Supported by Portable Class Library IsBuffered Gets a value that indicates whether the write method can be called multiple times.
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  Name Description
Public method CreateBufferedCopy Creates a buffered copy of the body.
Public method Supported by Portable Class Library Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Supported by Portable Class Library Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Portable Class Library GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Portable Class Library GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Supported by Portable Class Library MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method OnCreateBufferedCopy Provides an extensibility point when the body contents are written.
Protected method Supported by Portable Class Library OnWriteBodyContents When implemented, provides an extensibility point when the body contents are written.
Public method Supported by Portable Class Library ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Portable Class Library WriteBodyContents Writes out the contents of the message body.
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A message consists of headers and a body. The headers are buffered and the body is streamed. Because the body is streamed, the user cannot pass the actual content of the body to a message. Instead the user must pass a class that knows how to write the body when asked to do so. This is done by passing a class derived from BodyWriter to the Message. A message calls the class derived from BodyWriter whenever it requires the body to be written using an XmlWriter.

The following example shows how to derive a class from BodyWriter. This override takes in an array of strings and writes them to a XmlDictionaryWriter.


using System;
using System.Text;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Channels;
using System.Xml;

namespace UEBodyWriter
{
    class MyBodyWriter : BodyWriter
    {
        const string textTag = "text";
        string[] bodySegment;

        public MyBodyWriter(string[] strData) : base(true)
        {
            int length = strData.Length;

            this.bodySegment = new string[length];
            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
            {
                this.bodySegment[i] = strData[i];
            }
        }

        protected override void OnWriteBodyContents(XmlDictionaryWriter writer)
        {
           writer.WriteStartElement(textTag);

           foreach (string str in bodySegment)
           {
               writer.WriteString(str);
           }

            writer.WriteEndElement();
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string[] strings = {"Hello", "world"};
            MyBodyWriter bw = new MyBodyWriter(strings);

            StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder(10);
            XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(strBuilder);
            XmlDictionaryWriter dictionaryWriter = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateDictionaryWriter(writer);

            bw.WriteBodyContents(dictionaryWriter);
            dictionaryWriter.Flush();
        }
    }
}


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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