I have set up a web service but have no idea how to get data from it in MVC 5 c#

Question

I have the following namespace for the web service and I can see lots of functions I can access...

using MyService.api;

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        //What needs to go here?

        // LoginRequest and Response are types from the web service reference

        LoginRequest loginRequest = new LoginRequest();
        loginRequest.user = "blah";
        loginRequest.password = "abc1234";

        LoginResponse loginResponse = new LoginResponse();
        string sessionID = loginResponseSession.session.sessionId; // This has nothing in it

        return View("Index", sessionID );
    }
    ...

the api exposes all of these methods, things like:

MachineRequest machineRequest = new MachineRequest();
string[] machines = machineRequest.machines;

But ofcourse when I call that, it does not magically go and collect machines from the url.

How do I make and respond to the requests? What is the Service reference actually for?

Answer 1

Your question is a bit unclear. If you've generated a WCF service reference, you can use the "proxy" or "client" like this:

var client = new MyService.api.ApiReferenceClient();
var loginResponse = client.LoginRequest(loginRequest);

That will perform the SOAP call (or whatever binding is being used).