AGS SOE’s without the SOAP

Vish recently wrote about calling AGS SOEs via SOAP instead of DCOM.  He doesn’t mention that AGS doesn’t make you use SOAP, nor XML for that matter. This low-tech JSON-RPC invoker shows the proof-of-concept:

public string HandleStringRequest(string Capabilities, string request){
  MethodCall mc = JavaScriptConvert.DeserializeObject<MethodCall>(request);
  object result = this.GetType().GetMethod(mc.name).Invoke(this, mc.parameters);
  return JavaScriptConvert.SerializeObject(result);
}

public string test(string str1, string str2){
  return str1 + str2;
} 

class MethodCall{
  public string name;
  public object[] parameters;
}

 Here’s an action shot…