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BodyWriter Class

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BodyWriter Class

Represents the writer of the message body.

Namespace:  System.ServiceModel.Channels
Assembly:  System.ServiceModel (in System.ServiceModel.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public MustInherit Class BodyWriter
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As BodyWriter
C#
public abstract class BodyWriter
Visual C++
public ref class BodyWriter abstract
JScript
public abstract class BodyWriter

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.

C#
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();
        }
    }
}

System..::.Object
  System.ServiceModel.Channels..::.BodyWriter
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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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5
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