Web service is just a URL and we dynamically build them all the time. Matter of fact we use a random number generator. For example, we have 20 websites and we us ws_x.hostURL.com. ws_0 ws_1 ws_2 etc etc we also dynamically build the hostURL too.
Note however, we dropped web services in our android projects because of the overhead. We replaced it with a simply post/get. The network overhead of directly consuming web services caused network to memory issues. When we added all the SOAP it was BLOATed and caused issues on phones etc which have less bandwidth and memory. After messing around with web services we decided the overhead was too much so we built a webpage that accepts Post/Gets. Now, we build a special XML record set that only has elements that are not empty (or not set to default - no need to pass them). We then encode it, add SOH + BLOCK + data + CRC + ETX (yes the old xmodem data pack) and post it to the website. The website makes sure there is a SOH and ETX, calculates the CRC on data and compares it. Then we process the xml if it passes. This reduced our overhead by over 80% compared to using web services. We pass binary data the same way. Bottom-line we never noticed issues on computers, but when we went to hand held devices (with slower bandwidth) the web services was transmitting to much data and causing memory issues. -----Original Message----- From: monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of cgraus Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:01 PM To: monodroid@lists.ximian.com Subject: [mono-android] Calling arbitrary web services We have an application which we want to write some supporting mobile apps for. The idea is that if you buy our app, it comes with a web service, and you will host that service on your server, so it has access to your data store and can be used to provide access to your data. Therefore the interface is strongly typed, but the location is unknown. We're expecting to write this with WCF. All the examples I am seeing, require me to create a reference to a service. I can do that, but I'll need to dynamically change the location of the service. Are there any examples along those lines, or any advice anyone can offer ? -- View this message in context: http://mono-for-android.1047100.n5.nabble.com/Calling-arbitrary-web-serv ices-tp4959774p4959774.html Sent from the Mono for Android mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
