How to pass data ??

aliirfan84 · March 14th, 2007, 04:03 AM

I want to send a bulk of data to and from webserver through the use of webservice. I don't know how to send it, mean as dataset object or xml and how to use them. Dataset object can become very heavy as it contains alot of data. Can i searlize data in dataset?? If no then how to serailize (make packets) of big XML file so that i can reduce communication overload.

r_ganesh76 · March 15th, 2007, 11:59 AM

You can pass XML or DataSet as a parameter for the web method.

Code:

[WebMethod]
public DataSet MyMethod(XmlDocument MyXML)
{
     DataSet DS = new DataSet();
     // Your Processing Here

     return DS;
}

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aliirfan84 · March 16th, 2007, 04:52 AM

Thanks.
Please tell me whether should I pass XML file or DatSet. Mean which is lighter.
Thanks

Dheeraj_ahuja · March 20th, 2007, 11:40 AM

i guess using XML wil be a good option as the dataset is heavy in itself and contains lot of information in it.

nyasha_c · August 1st, 2007, 06:38 AM

If you are going to send alot of data try using XML objects as instead
of datasets.
Datasets are very verbose e.g they contain a lot of data about schema, datatypes, relations, constraints e.t.c.

XML objects outperfom Datasets where large amounts of data are involved. The only downside to XML objects is that they involve a lot more coding.
Also the transmission of datasets exposes dataset schema to hackers especially where no encryption is used.

for my web services i try and avoid transmitting Datasets whenever possible

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planoie · August 1st, 2007, 08:00 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by nyasha_c
Also the transmission of datasets exposes dataset schema to hackers especially where no encryption is used.

Web service data is transmitted as XML (last I checked). XML is essentially self-describing. I can more or less infer the schema of the data by looking *at* the data. Presuming a web service transmission is not happening on a secure connection such that I could see the data being sent, how is a dataset any more exposed than any other data format? True, the inclusion of the dataset schema makes it easier to see what the data types are, but it's not really that hard to figure out the data type of a value. And if someone wants to use the data, hiding the schema isn't going to hide the data.

-Peter

nyasha_c · August 1st, 2007, 04:27 PM

reply to planoie
What I am talking about is the database schema.

A serialized dataset reveals a lot about the DATABASE schema.
A serialized Xml object however does not descride the database schema but the object that was serialized

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planoie · August 1st, 2007, 09:42 PM

The schema in the dataset only reveals the schema of the dataset's data, not the schema of the data source. There's no way to know that a dataset came from a database engine, XML, or a text file. It's just a dataset. My point is that the xml of a dataset without the schema is nearly as revealing as the schema of it itself.

-Peter

abeen · August 2nd, 2007, 08:57 AM

I think pass xml data is ok !

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dtkubal · August 4th, 2007, 11:02 AM

I want to put one caution down here, the SOAP had default size of 4 MB so it may be possible that you get some error while xfering data is file is < 4 MB (Which we encounter while development where we sync to database using webservice).

In that case you need to add following lines in web.config of your webservice.

<system.web>

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="10000" useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" executionTimeout="10000"/>

</system.web>

Where Parameters are :

1. maxRequestLength (This parameter assigns max size of SOAP in this case I set it to 10 MB)

2. executionTimeout = 10000 (Time out in Seconds)