large file through WCF service

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Similar questions are flowing around and I looked at all of them. It appears none solve my issue.

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I am trying to upload a document (pdf, doc, or whatever) to a database using WCF Service. The call to the service looks like this:

using (var cw = new WCFClientWrapper<ICommonService>())
{
    cw.Channel.DocumentInsert(content, filename, contentType);
}

Here is signature for the contract:

[OperationContract]
void DocumentInsert(byte[] content, string fileName, string contentType);

Please note that I am passing byte array for the content as this is what needs to be passed to store things in DB.

-- End of Update --

I can successfully upload a small file (couple kb). However, when I try to upload something larger (20kb), I get an Exception:

The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: Error in deserializing body of request message for operation 'DocumentInsert'. The maximum array length quota (16384) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxArrayLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas object used when creating the XML reader. Line 1, position 31774.

The error seems to be obvious... just go and increase the MaxArrayLength. I have done that without any successful result. Below are the relevant parts from my web.configs

Client:

<system.serviceModel>

    <behaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="SecureBehavior">
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
    </behaviors>

    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="WSHttpBinding_Service" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
          openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
          bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
          maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="262144" messageEncoding="Text"
          textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered" useDefaultWebProxy="true" allowCookies="false">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="5242880" maxArrayLength="2147483646" maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="5242880" />
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://dev.svc.someurl.com/CommonService.svc"
                binding="basicHttpBinding"
                bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_Service"
                behaviorConfiguration="SecureBehavior"
                contract="MyApp.Contracts.ServiceContracts.ICommonService"
                name="MyApp.Contracts.ServiceContracts.ICommonService">
      </endpoint>
    </client>

  </system.serviceModel>

Service:

<system.serviceModel>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>

    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="MyBasicHttpBinding" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

    <services>
      <service name="MyApp.WCFServices.CommonService">
        <endpoint address=""
                  binding="basicHttpBinding"
                  bindingConfiguration="MyBasicHttpBinding"
                  contract="MyApp.Contracts.ServiceContracts.ICommonService">
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost"/>
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex"
                  binding="mexHttpBinding"
                  contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
      <service name="MyApp.WCFServices.AccountService">
        <endpoint address=""
                  binding="basicHttpBinding"
                  bindingConfiguration="MyBasicHttpBinding"
                  contract="MyApp.Contracts.ServiceContracts.IAccountService">
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost"/>
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex"
                  binding="mexHttpBinding"
                  contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
    </services>

    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>

Attaching diagnostics shows:

Construct Service: no errors/warnings
Open Service: warning - Configuration evaluation context not found - No matching tag was found. Default endpoints added.
Listen at 'http://dev.svc.someurl.com/CommonService.svc' : no errors/warnings
Processing message 1 : no errors/warnings
Processing Action 'http://tempuri.org/ICommonService/DocumentInsert'. : throws exception that I wrote at the very beginning.

Any help is appreciated.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 05:16

I have came across with the same exception a few months ago. To send/receive large data to/from WCF service you have to set transferMode="Streamed". When use transfermode as Buffered, it actually puts the entire file in memory before uploading/downloading. Therefore a large buffer is required on both the web client and the WCF service host.Whereas Streamed transfers can improve the scalability of a service by eliminating the need for large memory buffers. For more information on transfermode, see the MSDN article on TransferMode Enumeration

thanks for the suggestion. Didn't help though. It looks to me that it just ignores my binding and uses a default one. I'm not sure why or how though — Dmitry Efimenko, Mar 14 '12 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 22:37

All right, after a day of struggling I finally found an issue. I just had to make sure that the name of the tag in WCF web.config matches the namespace and the name of the service:

<service name="ServicesImplementation.WcfServices.CommonService">

Unfortunately it was not something that you guys would see based on the information that I provided.

large file through WCF service

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