Create generic response for API

I am creating a WCF service, which has many classes and many methods like GetCustomer, SaveCustomer, SaveTransaction etc. when we consume this service and call any method i want to return a generic response message. e.g. if i call SaveCustomer then in my response i want to send responseCode=SUC (its for request is successfuly came or not) result=Accepted, responseMessage="Customer data saved" so i created class like blow:

public string result { get; set; }

public string responseCode { get; set; }

public string responseMessage { get; set; }

and want to return that customer or transaction object also, if customer object came in request then my above class object plus customer that object if transaction object came then my above class object plus that trasaction object. there are many other classes also

thanks

Hello Arvind,

You can achieve this by creating generic response class. Below code snippet will guide you to get it.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
public class GenericResponseObject
{
private T _data;
private bool _success = true;
private int _total;
private string _message;
[DataMember()]
public bool success
{
get { return _success; }
set { _success = value; }
}
[DataMember()]
public string message
{
get { return _message; }
set { _message = value; }
}
[DataMember()]
public T data
{
get { return _data; }
set { _data = value; }
}
public RecordResponseObject(ref T data)
{
_data = data;
}
}
/*
Example method for GenericResponseObject returning List of ExampleObject wrapped.
public GenericResponseObject> Save(List data)
{
List response = new List();
foreach (ExampleObject item in data) {
int id = ExampleObject.Save(item);
ExampleObject record = ExampleObject.Find(id);
response.Add(record);
}
return new GenericResponseObject>(response);
}
*/

Hope, this will help you out. Feel free to write me if you have any query on this.

Please don't forget to mark as answer if this helps.

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Tejas Trivedi9y ago
Accepted answer
Hello Arvind,

You can achieve this by creating generic response class. Below code snippet will guide you to get it.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

public class GenericResponseObject
{
    private T _data;
    private bool _success = true;
    private int _total;
    private string _message;

    [DataMember()]
    public bool success
    {
        get { return _success; }
        set { _success = value; }
    }

    [DataMember()]
    public string message
    {
        get { return _message; }
        set { _message = value; }
    }

    [DataMember()]
    public T data
    {
        get { return _data; }
        set { _data = value; }
    }

    public RecordResponseObject(ref T data)
    {
        _data = data;
    }
}

/*
Example method for GenericResponseObject returning List of ExampleObject wrapped.
public GenericResponseObject> Save(List data)
{
    List response = new List();
    foreach (ExampleObject item in data) {
        int id = ExampleObject.Save(item);
        ExampleObject record = ExampleObject.Find(id);
        response.Add(record);
    }
    return new GenericResponseObject>(response);
}
*/
Hope, this will help you out. Feel free to write me if you have any query on this.
Please don't forget to mark as answer if this helps.
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