MarimerLLC
Implement Core WCF data portal channel
This may be a longer term goal, but over time it appears that Core WCF will become a viable technology that'll allow .NET Core (and .NET Standard?) code to support a subset of the WCF protocol.
When Code WCF is stable enough, we should create a project/package (Csla.Channels.Wcf) that implements a data portal proxy and host.
They are making progress, so that's good news!
https://corewcf.github.io/blog/2021/07/29/corewcf-0_2_0_release
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/upgrading-a-wcf-service-to-dotnet-6/
I have a need, so if anyone hasn't already begun this work, I will likely take a crack at it.
@DavidRMaltby sounds great!
You can use the grpc and rabbitmq projects as a template.
Currently have a blocker for the NetDataContractSerializer class as there is no .NET Core version of it. CoreWCF doesn't provide one and the discussion at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/27763 indicates that they won't persue it either. What I've found is a port of most of it from .NET Framework source at https://github.com/dmitrykolchev/NetDataContractSerializer and it was extended in https://github.com/cklutz/Compat.Runtime.Serialization. The later even does publish a NuGet package from the work. Would using that be a non-starter for PR approval here?
My recommendation would be to use MobileFormatter to create a byte array, and have the WCF contract accept/return a byte array - exactly like the HttpProxy does.
No need for any WCF specifics inside CSLA or within the byte stream, but enabling the use of WCF features at higher levels (assuming they support WS-* capabilities that you need to use).
There's no NetDataContractSerializer anymore, or BinaryFormatter for that matter, so any forward-looking strategy should rely on MobileFormatter.
The gRPC channel is almost certainly the best template. It does exactly what I'm describing, just with gRPC as the transport instead of WCF.
Wonderful. Thank you sir. My WCF background is weak and that was exactly the insight that I needed.
There are some thoughts on implementation in this discussion thread: https://github.com/MarimerLLC/csla/discussions/3448