MVC with web services

Recently, I was given the opportunity to play around with MVC

Now, my previous experience with MVC Model is with the conventional SQL database interaction using LINQ to retrieve data.

This time, however, I had to interact with web services. Trolling the web resulted in suggestion such as using a REST architecture structure and others which is quite a good read, especially the post by Rob Conery
Rob Conery - ASPNet MVC : Using Restful Architecture

I decided to experiment with using classes instead and it works. Ok, maybe the guys at the Big Blue will knock me down for this but see below for my explaination

This is what I did.

1. I built a web service library, compiled and NUnit tested thoroughly.
2. In the Model of the MVC Application, I added a "Code File". This resulted in an empty C# file being created.












3. From scratch, I built my Web Service Layer (WSL) class (I wonder if you can just add a class from the "Add") with the required properties to interact with the Web Service library.

    1 using System.Collections.Generic;

    2 using Your_WebService_ObjectName;

    3 using Your_WebService_ObjectName.WSCustomObjects.Availibility.Responses;

    4 using Your_WebService_ObjectName.WSObjects.ResLinkAvailibility;

    5 

    6 namespace MVCDemoApplication.Models

    7 {

    8     public class Your_WebService_Layer_Object

    9     {

   10         #region Private Fields

   11         private Application _app = null;

   12         private ResourceTypes _resourceTypes = null;

   13         private List<Your_WebService_ObjectName.WSCustomObjects.Availibility.Responses.GetResourceTypeResponse>

   14             _getResourceTypeResponseList = null;

   15         #endregion

   16 

   17         #region Public Property

   18         public ResourceTypes ResourceTypes

   19         {

   20             get { return _resourceTypes; }

   21             set { _resourceTypes = value; }

   22         }

   23 

   24         /// <summary>

   25         /// A list of GetResourceType response object.

   26         /// </summary>

   27         public List<Your_WebService_ObjectName.WSCustomObjects.Availibility.Responses.GetResourceTypeResponse> GetResourceTypeResponseList

   28         {

   29             get { return _getResourceTypeResponseList; }

   30             set { _getResourceTypeResponseList = value;}

   31         }

   32         #endregion

   33 

   34         public Your_WebService_Layer_Object()

   35         {

   36             _app = new Application("GUID", "PASSWORD", "Another GUID", "<INSERT_YOUR _ URL_HERE>");

   37             _resourceTypes = new ResourceTypes(_app);

   38             _getResourceTypeResponseList = _resourceTypes.GetResourceType();

   39         }

   40     }

   41 }

4. Added a View that was strongly typed to the class in the Web Service DLL.

And the result generated is as below.