SoapHeaderAttribute Required is obsolete. How to verify the header?

[Tim Tyannikov]

Now that the Required property of SoapHeaderAttribute is obsolete, how
can I verify that my custom SOAP header is sent to my Web Service? If
it possible, can someone please show me how to do it? My Web Service
is written in C#/VB.Net.

Thank you,
Tim T.

 

[Trebek]

Tim,

Although the property has been deprecated, you can check if the soap header
exists by simply verifying that it is not null. If it is null, just throw
an soap exception with the soap fault describing this situation to the user.

EX:

//maps caller's soap header to a local member
//where LogonToken is a class derived from soap header
private LogonToken token;
[WebMethod ]

[SoapHeader("token",Direction=SoapHeaderDirection.In)]

public string SomeMethod(string argument)

{

if (token == null)

//throw exception

}