Mono WebServices - Part 2

On a roll here…

I’ve converted my Mono -> MySQL demo page to exist as web service as well. Essentially the same background code, just with a bit of abstraction and the ASP.NET web service syntactic sugar.

So, now you can read a list of blog entry titles into your own application! Well, as long as your language-of-choice supports DataSets that is.

To re-hash some of the instructions in my previous post:

Generate a proxy client with:

  $ wsdl -n:Schwuk http://schwuk.com/wip/titlelist.asmx?wsdl

Save the following as TitleListClient.cs:

 using System;
 using System.Data;
 using Schwuk;

 class MainClass
 {
   public static void Main(string[] args)
   {
     TitleList ws = new TitleList();

     DataSet ds = ws.GetTitles();

     foreach (DataRow row in ds.Tables[0 ].Rows)
     {
       Console.WriteLine(row[1 ]);
     }
   }
 }

I’ve had to include some extra spaces in that code to make Textpattern play nicely…

Compile with:

 mcs -r:System.Data -r:System.Web.Services TitleListClient.cs TitleList.cs

That’s it. No MonoDevelop project this time, but you can get a pre-compiled executable if you’re feeling lazy…