Passing Custom Objects - What am I missing?

Question

Just learning WCF .. so please be kind... Developed a server service hosted in windows service, and a vb.net desktop app client. I am having trouble passing a simple .net class back and forth as a parameter. I'd like to client to create the serviceJob object, load some data into it, pass it to the Post() routine of the Service, have the service manipulate the properties then pass it on to the next (different client) who will do the same. The problem is that when the client instantiates the ServiceJob and sets some properties the receiving service cannot see them, the properties are all set to nothing. If the server sets properties and returns it to the client, they are visible to the client. Help. Code Below.

>> THE ServiceJob - The class being passed back and forth

<DataContract()> Public Class ServiceJob

   Private mJobID As String = "France"

   <DataMember()> Public Property JobID() As String
      Get
         Return mJobID
      End Get
      Set(ByVal value As String)
         mJobID = value
      End Set
   End Property

End Class

>> THE POST() Function on the Server : The Equivilent method on the interface has the <OperationContract> attribute set

Public Function Post(ByVal Job As ServiceJob) As String Implements IServiceBus.Post
   Return Job.JobID
End Function

>> THE CLIENT Side code

   Dim x As New CDI.ServiceBusClient
   Dim Job As New CDI.ServiceBusClient
   Dim Result as String
   Job.JobID = "123"
   Result =  X.Post(Job)

   Msgbox(Result) ' IS Nothing

>> CONFIG Settings

<system.serviceModel>
   <services>
      <service
         name="CDI.ServiceBus"
         behaviorConfiguration="MyServiceBehavior">
         <host>
            <baseAddresses>
               <add baseAddress="http://localhost:8231/CDI/"/>
            </baseAddresses>
         </host>
         <endpoint address=""
            binding="basicHttpBinding"
            contract="CDI.IServiceBus"/>
      </service>
   </services>

<behaviors>
   <serviceBehaviors>
      <behavior name="MyServiceBehavior">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
      </behavior>
   </serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>

</system.serviceModel>

I've trimmed the code to the bare essentials ... ANY help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

Karlton Kemerait · Answer

Because the serviceJob is the container that holds the data passed between multiple clients and the server. The server is actually a service bus and the client(s) are SOA services that register with the bus perform a job and then place data into the serviceJob class to be passed to whomever happens to be the next client service. It's a shared container.

Roei Bar · Answer

why dont you pass to the server the x Object that you have created... and set the DataContract to return that ObjectType you dont need to create the Object for the Server ....