Wire Format

Wire is an efficient binary serialization format from the Akka.NET Team with comparable performance to ProtoBuf but like MsgPack doesn’t require your POCO’s to be annotated with [DataContract] attributes making it more suitable for code-first POCO DTOs.

Installing via NuGet

Wire is easily installed with the ServiceStack.Wire NuGet package:

PM> Install-Package ServiceStack.Wire

After the NuGet Package is added to your Project, enable the Wire format in your AppHost with:

Plugins.Add(new WireFormat());

The NuGet plugin also includes the WireServiceClient client below so you can easily call it from any C# Client.

Client Usage

Just like the rest of ServiceStack C# Clients, WireServiceClient is interchangeable with the other Service clients and provides and end-to-end API for consuming ServiceStack’s Services, e.g:

var client = new WireServiceClient(BaseUri);
List<Todo> all = client.Get(new Todos());           // Count = 0

var todo = client.Post(
    new Todo { Content = "New TODO", Order = 1 });  // todo.Id = 1
all = client.Get(new Todos());                      // Count = 1

todo.Content = "Updated TODO";
todo = client.Put(todo);                            // todo.Content = Updated TODO

client.Delete(new Todos(todo.Id));
all = client.Get(new Todos());