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What is right & wrong with the WCF-WebHTTP Adapter?

Colin DijkgraafIntegration Consultant at Datacom

http://www.twitter.com/CDijkgraaf

Mark BrimblePrincipal Integration Architect at Datacomhttp://www.twitter.com/brimblemark

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Premises for this talk

•The WCF-WebHTTP adapter requires some custom workarounds

SFTP FILE WCF-ORACLEWCF-WEBHTTPWCF-SQL

•What do use the WCF-Web HTTP adapter for?•Why does this adapter not do what it is supposed to

do?•How do you workaround these issues?

The Good, Bad and Ugly Story

•Send & receive messages to & from ReSTful services•Representational State Transfer

What do you use the WCF-Web HTTP Adapter for?

•There are 5 Issues with WCF-WebHTTP adapter•There are 4 Issues with the JSON decoder/encoder

Why does the adapter not do what it is supposed to do?

•Azure service bus relays only work for the base URL•Does not detect HTTP 500 error •Does not set message type on error•Does not set http status code on error•Missing ability to suppress 404 status code

Issues with WCF-WebHTTP adapter

Azure service bus relays only work for the base URL

Demo

WCF-WebHTTP adapter and Azure Service Bus Relays

•https://adventuresinsidethemessagebox.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/getting-azure-service-bus-relays-and-the-biztalk-wcf-webhttp-adapter-to-play-nice-with-each-other/

Workarounds for Relays

HTTP 500 error not detected and other error codes are missing

Message type not set on error

HTTP status code not set on error

No OOTB way to suppress 404 status code

Demo

Other WCF-WebHTTP adapter issues – Colin

https://cdijkgraaf.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/biztalk-2013-r2-known-bugs-issues-quirks/

Workarounds for other WCF-WebHTTP issues

Issues with JSON Encoder and Decoder

Decoder drops trailing 0’s after the decimal

Encoder adds a outputs a Integer as a decimal

Encoder adds a time to a Date

Encoder changes date-time timezone

Demo

JSON Encoder and Decoder Issues and Workarounds

https://cdijkgraaf.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/biztalk-2013-r2-known-bugs-issues-quirks/

Workarounds for the JSON Encoder and Decoder

Premises for this talk

•The WCF-WebHTTP adapter requires some custom workarounds

•Deepa Kamalanathan•Leelavinoth Pachaiyappan•Aravindh Kathiresan•Shikhar Bhagat

Acknowledgements

Thank You

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