Access Request Body in a WCF RESTful Service

Question

How do I access the HTTP POST request body in a WCF REST service?

Here is the service definition:

[ServiceContract]
public interface ITestService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "EntryPoint")]
    MyData GetData();
}

Here is the implementation:

public MyData GetData()
{
    return new MyData();
}

I though of using the following code to access the HTTP request:

IncomingWebRequestContext context = WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest;

But the IncomingWebRequestContext only gives access to the headers, not the body.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Best way i think doesn't involve WebOperationContext

[OperationContract]
[WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "EntryPoint", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare)]
MyData GetData(System.IO.Stream pStream);

Answer 2

Use

OperationContext.Current.RequestContext.RequestMessage

Answer 3

Sorry for the late answer but I thought I would add what works with UriTemplate parameters to get the request body.

[ServiceContract]
public class Service
{        
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "{param0}/{param1}", Method = "POST")]
    public Stream TestPost(string param0, string param1)
    {

        string body = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(OperationContext.Current.RequestContext.RequestMessage.GetBody<byte[]>());

        return ...;
    }
}

body is assigned a string from the raw bytes of the message body.