I'm dealing with an issue with a SharePoint 2010 Hosted WCF Data Services. So Keep in mind that i'm restricted to work with .NET 3.5. In order to generate the CSDL endpoint for descripting my entities, I use the appropriate decorator and I enjoy the benefits of reflexion to handle this job for me.
Here is the code for the MEX point:
[BasicHttpBindingServiceMetadataExchangeEndpoint]
[ServiceBehavior(IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults = true)]
public class Demarches : DataService<CacheDataContext>
{
public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)
{
config.UseVerboseErrors = true;
config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.AllRead);
config.SetServiceOperationAccessRule("*", ServiceOperationRights.AllRead);
config.DataServiceBehavior.MaxProtocolVersion = DataServiceProtocolVersion.V2;
}
}
Here is a part of the CSDL file I get with the code above:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<edmx:Edmx Version="1.0" xmlns:edmx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/06/edmx">
<edmx:DataServices xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" m:DataServiceVersion="1.0">
<Schema Namespace="XXX.Poco" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2006/04/edm">
<EntityType Name="Demarche">
<Key>
<PropertyRef Name="id" />
</Key>
<Property Name="id" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="titre" Type="Edm.String" Nullable="true" />
<Property Name="avancement" Type="Edm.String" Nullable="true" />
<Property Name="date" Type="Edm.DateTime" Nullable="false" />
<NavigationProperty Name="historiques" Relationship="XXX.Poco.Demarche_historiques" FromRole="Demarche" ToRole="historiques" />
<NavigationProperty Name="proprietes" Relationship="XXX.Poco.Demarche_proprietes" FromRole="Demarche" ToRole="proprietes" />
<Property Name="CacheDurationInSeconds" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="CacheDurationInMinutes" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false" />
<Property Name="CacheDurationInHours" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false" />
</EntityType>
I have to put a flag on the "avancement" property because it's an enum in my business code and I would like to know dynamically, when I read the CSDL endpoint, what property are enum in order to provide a dynamic filtering system when I develop client apps.
I should have something like that <Property Name="avancement" Type="Edm.String" Nullable="true" isFilterable="true"/> for instance.
First of all, do you know whether or not that kind of modifications can break some tools parsing like SvcUtil.exe, Jaydata.exe ? So, is it possible achieve this goal programmatically when I initialize the Web Service Configuration for instance ?
Thanks for suggestions, and I apologize if my english is not proper.