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Why does a WCF web service not receive the client payload?

I have inherited a web service built to receive calls from a third party system, "System A". It was a POC that may not have any active functions calling it and I suspect it was only tested from SoapUI or the like and never from the application it was designed for.
When System A is configured to call it, the service is called but the payload, one complex-type parameter, is null.
I have two other web services written years ago that accept calls of the same type from the same function of System A. Pointing System A to either of these services results in the parameter being supplied. Contracts and WSDLs look very similar and the only variations I see (like differing namespaces) seem to vary between the two services that do work.
What would cause a web service to not receive the payload in the call?
Related, where should I look to find it? The parameter is getting dropped between System A calling and the web service code itself getting hit. I've checked the trace logs but see nothing that I recognize as useful.
namespace MyNamespace.StandardNoteReceiverService
{
public class StandardNoteReceiverService : IReceiveNoteService
{
public StandardNoteReceiverResponse ReceiveNote(ReceiveNoteData standardNoteReceiverRequest)
{
string x = standardNoteReceiverRequest == null ? "NULL" : "ok";
LoggingLib.Log($"Service called. Paramter status: {x}");
return NoteReceiverServiceLayer.ReceiveNote(standardNoteReceiverRequest);
}
}
}
which implements
namespace MyNamespace.StandardNoteReceiverService
{
[ServiceContract]
public interface IReceiveNoteService
{
[OperationContract]
StandardNoteReceiverResponse ReceiveNote(ReceiveNoteData standardNoteReceiverRequest);
}
}

It turned out to be the parameter naming. Once I changed the name of the parameter to be the same as the name used by the services that are working, it began receiving the data.
public class StandardNoteReceiverService : IReceiveNoteService
{
public StandardNoteReceiverResponse ReceiveNote(ReceiveNoteData NoteData)
{ ...

How did you build “System A”? Is it a WCF Web HTTP service or an ancient soap web service? How does the client call the service and send the parameter? I think it may be that the format of the parameters sent by the client is incorrect. In the Rest-style service created by WCF, using complex objects as parameters to pass data may not always receive the value of the parameter on the server because of the format of the parameter.
Get the object is null using JSON in WCF Service
While in the WCF SOAP web service, the invocation is completed with a client proxy, the parameters are strong-typed. If the server always gets null, it might be caused by other issues.
I suggest you create a minimal, producible example so that I can try to offer a workaround instead of offering speculation of this issue here.
Feel free to let me know if the problem still exists.

How to consume web API service from a webforms application?

I have a webforms application in a big solution folder with multiple projects. I wanted to consume a web api application which is also a part of the solution. So my client looks like as follows.
function GetText()
{
$.getJSON("api/SiteUsers",
function (data) {
$("#TestText").append(data);
});
}
and the controller is a simple string returning action.
[HttpGet]
public string TestText()
{
return "this is a text";
}
when I try to call the service I get a 404 error the following link could not be found
http://localhost:1234/MyAspxProj/MyFolder/MyPage/api/SiteUsers
I can understand it is probably because it is trying to find the resource from within the webforms application. How can I call the web api service? I am open to all suggestions and advice.

lets say your API is hosted on localhost:1111 and your webforms application is hosted on localhost:2222
first make sure you can get the results of the API you just created by going to:
localhost:1111/api/SiteUsers
once you are sure that the above URL is returning what you expect, you can be sure that your API is set-up correctly.
Now lets come to the next issue, accessing API from another application (i.e. not having the same Host as the API i.e. localhost2222)
To access APIs from an application that is on another domain, you need to enable CORS support on the WebAPI. There are manay resources on the internet that will explain you how you can achieve this: google for enabling cors in web api 2
Once you have set-up CORS on your web api project, you will be able to access your API from any application.
Remember: you only need to enable CORS if the client is on different domain AND the client is a web based client (which in your case it is i.e. web forms application)
I hope this will give you some direction.

Based on the info you've provided, it looks to me like you're not putting in the correct url. Assuming your [HttpGet] function is within a file at "api/SiteUsers", you would use a url like this: "api/SiteUsers/TestText"

Consume web service using post in c#

Currently I have less information about this, but I will update soon with more details.
I have been provided with a web page which provides user name & password option to access a url & return a token value.
The form contains that url in action & the method used is POST.
I have tried general HttpWebRequest methods to access the url, but have been unsuccessful so far. It gives error "cannot connect to remote server"
The url is like
www.somesite.com\method.php\level1\method1\xml
The url confuses me as other links have some extension at the end(I am relatively new to this web service)
I have been told this webservice has been consumed in mobile.
Can someone please guide me as to how to access a web service in c# using POST method?
I apologise for the lack of detailed information

First try to understand how the webservice works.
You can simply create a simple c# rest web service. To return json data , you will need to specify the return data format on specific operation in the web service. To use mysql for database, you can search for mysql connector for c# on google. You can find libraries to use in your code. Hope it helps !
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/201901/CREATE-RESTful-WCF-Service-API-Using-POST-Step-By

I was able to access by providing proxy details.

I am trying to consume a PHP SOAP service from C# and create a class wrapper in VS 2010

I've been tasked with creating a class wrapper for a SOAP service, the idea is that you'll be able to treat it as a regular class. The main reason for this is that the WDSL for the SOAP service contains only one method and it's got 5 parameters and it's only kind of OO so you'd have to know all the method calls really well and it's a bit hard to remember them all.
OK, so I've tried adding a web reference, now web references can now be added as service references in VS 2010. You click add service reference advanced etc and it puts in a service reference. Great. Unfortunately if I try and access this from a class I can't.
I can build a console app and put code in the main procedure and access the method of the SOAP service fine but when I add a reference to a class library the intellisense won't allow me to select anything. I'd instantiate an instance like so:
SOAPService.webServiceService ws = new SOAPService.webserviceService();
ws.
and then the intellisense refuses to kick in. If I do the same in a web project or a console app then I can access it fine. I've added the namespace I've done all kinds of things. Also, I can add a web reference and get a DISCO file whenever I create a web project.
OK, also while I'm on the subject I also need to pass credentials to the web service in PHP.
The problem is that in the past I'd create some .net system credentials and add these and it would usually pass through if I was connecting to another .net service.
How should I be sending them to a PHP web service? I always get either invalid username/password combo errors or envelope malformatted error types
Thanks
Mr. B

So the intellisense is not working, but if you add the method in and try to use it does it work, or produce an error?
With regard to diagnosing authentication issues try using fiddler to view the SOAP messages that are being sent, and to view the reply. Do you have some other software that connects and authenticates to that service? Use fiddler to look at the SOAP messages and compare them to see if the header is different etc.
I'd normally do it like this,
using (Service service = new Service())
{
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Domain = "domain";
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = "password";
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = "username";
}
Also with regard to the service working or not in general use fiddler if you have any problems, you can see the SOAP messages and it often gives you a clearer message.
I know in IIS you can turn on failed request handling that also gives you an insight from what is going on at the server end, perhaps you have some form of logging too for your php service?

Global variables in WCF REST services

My applciation works as follows
[user]----username/password/domain----->[WCF service]
then i access the domain server to see to which actual DB the user is associated,
after getting that, i validate the user in his actual DB(DB is per domain)
the problem is that i need a place to store the domain name for the following requests against the db.
for example,if the users calls a WCF service operation:
Test()
first the validation procedure is called, (WCF UserNamePasswordValidator) which validates the user password(which is sent as part of the header for REST or as part of the SOAP), and the next function to be called is the Test, but by then i cant tell the domain of the user(to actually serve the request agains that domain..)
I dont want to change the signature of each domain to
Test(string domain)
I cant simply access the headers since i expose the same methods both as REST and as SOAP and the authentication is different for each of them..(one is with headers as with Amazon S3 and the later is using the SOAP standard)
so basically i'm looking for a global, per call storage.(i want to avoid the Per-Call initiation method)
thanks.
EDIT:
Maybe i should use the ThreadStaticAttribute? will that work?

This will not work. You can't store anything in UserNamePasswordValidator. It even doesn't have access to OperationContext because it runs on different thread.
The way to do this is create custom message inspector and extract the information from custom message header to custom operation context extension as Frank mentioned.

WCF knows a Current OperationContext. You can write your own extensions for it. Unrelated to this issue, I used the same mechanics in this NHibernate Session management here, which may work in its concept for you as well. It accesses the InstanceContext, but the concepts are similar.