consuming the RESTFul WCF service in client side example

The client can simply use the WCF RESTFul service and invokes its methods remotely via WebChannelFactory.

Add reference

Firstly, we need to add a reference to the server side project so will have the same contacts in the client side . Also you need to add the System. ServiceModel.web name space to the client side to have the WebChannelFactory functionality .

Making a WebChannelFactory

It is getting the server side interface contract and the base address of hosting as input .

WebChannelFactoryC#

var factory =  new WebChannelFactory<IMachine>(new Uri("http://localhost:8080/RESTWcf"));
IMachine machine = factory.CreateChannel();

Calling methods

And then we can simply call the server side methods .
I just write a simple procedural functions to ask the user and run the methods.

client consoleC#

while (true) {
Console.WriteLine("To submit press 1 \nTo delete press 2 \nto Retrive press 3\n\n");
string readLine = Console.ReadLine();
	if (readLine.Equals("1")) {
		Console.WriteLine("please enter the machine name");
		string machineName = Console.ReadLine();
		var machineDetail = new MachineDetail {Name = machineName};
		string addMachine = machine.AddMachine(machineDetail);
		Console.WriteLine(addMachine);
	} else if (readLine.Equals("2")) {
		Console.WriteLine("please enter the machine Id that you want to delete");
		string machineId = Console.ReadLine();
		string deleteMachineById = machine.DeleteMachineById(machineId);
		Console.WriteLine(deleteMachineById);
	} else if (readLine.Equals("3")) {
		Console.WriteLine("please enter the machine Id that you want to get");
		string machineId = Console.ReadLine();
		string machineNameById = machine.GetMachineNameById(machineId);
		Console.WriteLine(machineNameById);
	} else {
		break;
	}
}

It goes through a loop and do the submit , delete and get functions.

Download

Feel free to download the full source code of this WCF example from my GitHub.