In WCF how to remove bindings from the metadata?

Question

The WSDL generated by WCF is describing all my bindings, and I want it to describe only the wsHttpBinding.

I want it because a PHP client can't parse the WSDL if it contains unknown bindings.

There is a way to do that?

Answer 1

Have a service and an endpoint that exposes nothing but the wsHttpBinding and connect to that endpoint using your PHP client - that ought to work. There's really nothing else you can do, I think - if a service exposes more than one endpoint with various bindings, all those bindings and endpoints will end up in the WSDL.

So just have a separate service entry:

<services>    
    <service name="MyService">
        <endpoint name="WsHttpEndpoint"
            address="......."
            binding="wsHttpBinding"
            contract="IMyService" />
    </service>
</services>

and have the PHP client connect here - since there's only a single wsHttpBinding endpoint, that should work.

So you can't really remove any bindings from the metadata - but you can prevent some metadata from being included.

The other option would be to have a separate WSDL for your service, that will work with PHP. You can even define a static external metadata WSDL using the serviceMetadata behavior:

  <system.serviceModel>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="test">
          <serviceMetadata 
             externalMetadataLocation="http://YourServer/Service/WSDL/MyService.wsdl"/&gt;
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>