For the client side, will the “Dynamic Web Service Helpers” sample at the 
bottom of http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Samples be of 
use? It ships as an IronPython sample, but is fully language-independent. 
Attached are two samples of how its used from IronPython. You can get the full 
sample from 
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=8365#DownloadId=51539


From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] What is the status for providing support for 
Attributes?

* removed rant as this isn't a philosophical discussion on WCF/SOAP/REST/JSON 
services :) *

For the client side you don't need attributes to generate a proxy for a WCF 
call at all and you can just use meta programming to create those for you.  
Then on the server side there are few approaches you can use to host WCF 
services.  WCF allows you to virtually replace every bit and piece in its 
architecture with custom implemenations

One possible solution:
1. you can create a custom service host, instance provider and behavior that 
knows how to deal with ruby classes or DLR classes in general.
2. A custom operation invoker to select the method you want to call (that uses 
DLR infrastructure) + behavior to insert it in the wcf config
3. open-source it an the rest of the community will thank you for it :)
4. remove the need for xml configuration in default usage cases (totally 
optional but still a good idea :))

If you put a good dev on this he can have this done in a couple of days.

Only doing #1 will already get you hosting C# WCF services on the server, it 
even allows you to write your service in Ruby as long as you define the service 
contract in C#/VB/...

Attributes are a crutch used in the static world to annotate types with extra 
metadata. In ruby you typically use a class method invocation to provide that 
metadata because ruby doesn't break the inheritance chain when it comes to 
class level members. And in the WCF scenario I don't see the _need_ for 
attributes. I don't think we should be changing ruby to know about those static 
things but rather make the technologies aware of DLR languages and how to use 
them.

Please prove me wrong :)

disclaimer: I may have made things look easier than they actually are.
---
Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations
Ivan Porto Carrero
Blog: http://flanders.co.nz
Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim
Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Philippe Monnet 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Jimmy,

Yes I was interested in attributes to be able to call WCF services (actually 
SOAP services) from Silverlight using Ruby.
With WCF support, I think that IronRuby will become a huge catalyst for 
Silverlight, especially for web enterprise developers.
At my work, SOAP services provide access to all our shared enterprise 
capabilities. All web apps use these services. Right now we use 
ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> and are injecting more and more jQuery and JSON 
services to push the envelope on interactivity, richness and usability. I would 
rather use Silverlight but static languages are a drag on productivity for 
front-end development (don't get me wrong, I love C# for everything else - 
frameworks, services, etc.).
So far, in prototypes, I have had to create C# wrappers on top of the WCF/SOAP 
proxies but that makes it even more brittle when we have to evolve our service 
signatures. I would love to simplify web development and have a consistent 
dynamic language experience on the browser side. IronRuby would be perfect in 
this scenario and would lower the bar for Silverlight development. A good 
example of course is what is being done around Gestalt.

My perspective as an enterprise architect would be to include support for WCF 
in 1.0, but I totally understand the challenges of product scoping and shipping 
(I have experienced that for 5 years during the case tool years in the early 
nineties).
The work so far on IronRuby is spectacular in my opinion both from a technical 
perspective as well as a from a collaboration and openness perspective! So keep 
it up! :-)

Philippe

Jimmy Schementi wrote:
No, .NET Attributes are not planned for 1.0. IronPython 2.6 does not support it 
either, though they have a low level hook that could allow it to be 
implemented. I understant this blocks the usage of any frameworks which depend 
on Attributes (WCF), but in the grand scheme of .NET interop they are a feature 
that can wait until after 1.0.

If you disagree, please let us know; I'd really like all of you to agree that 
IronRuby is in a 1.0 state, not just the people who have @microsoft in their 
email addresses.

~Jimmy

On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:01 PM, "Philippe Monnet" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As you are getting near 1.0, is the support for attributes somewhere on the 
radar? It seems like the last time I saw an exchange on this was sometime in 
February.

Philippe
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