Content Type application soap xml charset utf-8 was not supported by service

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I am getting the error below while trying to add WCF service to WCFTestClient  I went through a number of solutions on the web but I couldn t get it to work     Can someone help me with the issues  I am also providing my config file for service      Content Type application soap xml  charset utf-8 was not supported by   service The client and service bindings may be mismatched     The   remote server returned an error   415  Cannot process the message   because the content type  application soap xml  charset utf-8  was not   the expected type  text xml  charset utf-8   Code    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8    gt   lt configuration gt      lt system web gt       lt compilation debug  true    gt     lt  system web gt     lt  -- When deploying the service library project  the content of the config file    must be added to the host s app config file  System Configuration does not    support config files for libraries  -- gt     lt system serviceModel gt       lt bindings gt         lt basicHttpBinding gt           lt binding name  basicHttp  allowCookies  true                   maxReceivedMessageSize  20000000                   maxBufferSize  20000000                   maxBufferPoolSize  20000000  gt             lt readerQuotas maxDepth  32                 maxArrayLength  200000000                 maxStringContentLength  200000000   gt           lt  binding gt         lt  basicHttpBinding gt       lt  bindings gt       lt services gt        lt service name  WCFTradeLibrary TradeService  gt           lt endpoint address    binding  basicHttpBinding              bindingConfiguration  basicHttp              contract  WCFTradeLibrary ITradeService  gt                      lt  endpoint gt        lt  service gt       lt  services gt       lt behaviors gt         lt serviceBehaviors gt           lt behavior gt             lt  -- To avoid disclosing metadata information             set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint            above before deployment -- gt             lt serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled  true   gt             lt  -- To receive exception details in faul enter code here ts for            debugging purposes              set the value below to true   Set to false before deployment            to avoid disclosing exception info enter code here rmation -- gt             lt serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults  true    gt           lt  behavior gt         lt  serviceBehaviors gt       lt  behaviors gt     lt  system serviceModel gt    lt  configuration gt

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In my case one of the classes didn t have a default constructor - and class without default constructor can t be serialized

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I had the same problem and solved it by using EnumMemberAttribute for enum member s attribute  If you are using enum type as data contract and its members attributed with DataMemberAttribute  same error occurs  You must use EnumMemberAttribute for members of enum

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I also came across the same problem  In my case  I was using transfermode   streaming with Mtom  As it turns out  I had named one of my variables  for a structure    HEADER   This conflicted with the message element  http   tempuri org  HEADER  as part of the http service download  Clearly  one must avoid using  reserved  words as parameter name

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check the client config file that identified to the web config on the binding section

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In my case same error was caused by missing    DataContract       DataMember     attributes in the returned data type   Check for that and try addinging those and see if it helps

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I run into naming problem  Service name has to be exactly name of your implementation  If mismatched  it uses by default basicHttpBinding resulting in text xml content type    Name of your class is on two places - SVC markup and CS file   Check endpoint contract too - again exact name of your interface  nothing more  I ve added assembly name which just can t be there    lt service name  MyNamespace MyService  gt       lt endpoint address    binding  wsHttpBinding  contract  MyNamespace IMyService    gt       lt endpoint address  mex  binding  mexHttpBinding  contract  IMetadataExchange   gt     lt  service gt

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My problem was our own collection class  which was flagged with  DataContract   From my point of view  this was a clean approach and it worked fine with XmlSerializer but for the WCF endpoint it was breaking and we had to remove it  XmlSerializer still works without   Not working   DataContract  public class AttributeCollection   List lt KeyValuePairSerializable lt string  string gt  gt    Working  public class AttributeCollection   List lt KeyValuePairSerializable lt string  string gt  gt

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My case had a different solution   The client was using basichttpsbinding 1  and the service was using wshttpbinding    I resolved the problem by changing the server binding to basichttpsbinding  Also  i had to set target framework to 4 5 by adding      lt system web gt       lt compilation debug  true  targetFramework  4 5    gt       lt httpRuntime targetFramework  4 5   gt     lt  system web gt     1  the comunication was over https

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I was getting same error while using WebServiceTemplate spring ws  err  org springframework ws client WebServiceTransportException  Cannot process the message because the content type  text xml  charset utf-8  was not the expected type  application soap xml  charset utf-8    415   err  at org springframework ws client core WebServiceTemplate handleError WebServiceTemplate java 665    The WSDL which i was using has soap1 2 protocol and by default the protocol is soap1 1   When i changed the protocol using below code  it was working   MessageFactory msgFactory   MessageFactory newInstance javax xml soap SOAPConstants SOAP 1 2 PROTOCOL        SaajSoapMessageFactory saajSoapMessageFactory   new SaajSoapMessageFactory msgFactory        saajSoapMessageFactory setSoapVersion SoapVersion SOAP 12        getWebServiceTemplate   setMessageFactory saajSoapMessageFactory

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I experienced the same error message  I managed to fix it   In my case the error was that I missed the  datacontract  and  datamember  attributes in the parent class of my returned class  The error message was misleading    OperationContract  List lt MyClass gt  GetData      DataContract  public class MyClass   MyParentClass               DataMember      public string SomeString   get  set                Missing DataContract public class MyParentClass          Missing DataMember     public int SomeNumber   get  set

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Here is the example of a web config that solve the issue for me  Pay attention on the  lt binding name  TransportSecurity  messageEncoding  Text  textEncoding  utf-8

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As suggested by others this happens due to service client mismatch   I ran into the same problem  when was debugging got to know that there is a mismatch in the binding  Instead of WSHTTPBinding I was referring to BasicHttpBinding  In my case I am referring both BasicHttp and WsHttp  I was dynamically assigning the binding based on the reference  So check your service constructor as shown below  Refer this image

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I had the same problem  got it working by  binding  de service with the service behaviour by doing this    Gave a name to the behaviour    lt serviceBehaviors gt           lt behavior name  YourBehaviourNameHere  gt     And making a reference to your behaviour in your service   lt services gt     lt service name  WCFTradeLibrary TradeService  behaviorConfiguration  YourBehaviourNameHere  gt    The whole thing would be     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8    gt   lt configuration gt      lt system web gt       lt compilation debug  true    gt     lt  system web gt     lt  -- When deploying the service library project  the content of the config file must be added to the host s    app config file  System Configuration does not support config files for libraries  -- gt     lt system serviceModel gt       lt bindings gt         lt basicHttpBinding gt           lt binding name  basicHttp  allowCookies  true                   maxReceivedMessageSize  20000000                   maxBufferSize  20000000                   maxBufferPoolSize  20000000  gt             lt readerQuotas maxDepth  32                 maxArrayLength  200000000                 maxStringContentLength  200000000   gt           lt  binding gt         lt  basicHttpBinding gt       lt  bindings gt       lt services gt        lt service name  WCFTradeLibrary TradeService  behaviourConfiguration  YourBehaviourNameHere  gt           lt endpoint address    binding  basicHttpBinding  bindingConfiguration  basicHttp  contract  WCFTradeLibrary ITradeService  gt                      lt  endpoint gt        lt  service gt       lt  services gt       lt behaviors gt         lt serviceBehaviors gt           lt behavior name  YourBehaviourNameHere  gt             lt  -- To avoid disclosing metadata information             set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -- gt             lt serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled  true   gt             lt  -- To receive exception details in faul enter code here ts for debugging purposes             set the value below to true   Set to false before deployment            to avoid disclosing exception info enter code here rmation -- gt             lt serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults  true    gt           lt  behavior gt         lt  serviceBehaviors gt       lt  behaviors gt     lt  system serviceModel gt    lt  configuration gt

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This error may occur when WCF client tries to send its message using MTOM extension  MIME type application soap xml is used to transfer SOAP XML in MTOM   but service is just able to understand normal SOAP messages  it doesn t contain MIME parts  only text xml type in HTTP request    Be sure you generated your client code against correct WSDL    In order to use MTOM on server side  change your configuration file adding messageEncoding attribute    lt binding name  basicHttp  allowCookies  true               maxReceivedMessageSize  20000000               maxBufferSize  20000000               maxBufferPoolSize  20000000               messageEncoding  Mtom   gt

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I had to add the  wsdl parameter to the end of the url  For example  http   localhost 8745 YourServiceName  wsdl

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For me  it was very difficult to identify the problem because of a large number of methods and class involved   What I did is commented  removed  some methods from the WebService interface and try  and then comment another bunch of methods and try  I kept doing this until I found the method that cause the problem   In my case  it was using a complex object which cannot be serialized   Good luck

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I too had the same error in trace logs  My newly created function in API was throwing the same error but to my surprise  the old functions were performing good   The issue was - My contract data members had few variables of type object  soap-xml was not able to handle it well  however  I can see that array of object types  object    were getting passed without any issues  Only a simple object type was not getting parsed by soap  This could be one more reason why the services throw the above error

[wcf] Content Type application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service

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