WCF AppFabric Caching Caching Sample Behavior

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On Thanksgiving day while I was running in the snow I had an idea – what if you could create an Operation Behavior that would allow WCF to cache the result of a service call in Windows Server AppFabric Cache?

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So I created a sample application that does this by implementing an attribute that implements IOperationBehavior and IOperationInvoker along with a Service Behavior that supports AppFabric Caching.  I wanted to make this work with AppFabric Caching but not require you to to have AppFabric caching running when developing or testing the service. The solution I came up with was to look for a Service Extension that implements IServiceCache.  If I find it, I use it.  Otherwise I create a local cache using System.Runtime.MemoryCache.

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To ask for caching on a service you can either add it to your contract or request it in config.

    [ServiceContract]
    public interface ISampleService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        [CacheResult(Minutes=2)]
        SampleData GetSampleData(SampleDataRequest request);
    }

To request caching in your config

<system.servicemodel>

    <extensions>

      <behaviorextensions>

        <add type="Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples.Caching.AppFabric.AppFabricCacheElement, Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples.Caching.AppFabric, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" name="appFabricCachingBehavior" />

      </behaviorextensions>

    </extensions>

    <behaviors>

      <servicebehaviors>

        <behavior name="">

          <servicemetadata httpgetenabled="true" />

          <servicedebug includeexceptiondetailinfaults="true" />

          <appfabriccachingbehavior />

        </behavior>

      </servicebehaviors>

    </behaviors>

    <servicehostingenvironment multiplesitebindingsenabled="true" />

  </system.servicemodel>

Check it out

The sample includes unit tests that demonstrate how you can setup parameters for cache keys and complex types. Hope you like it!