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    <p>In order to achieve my goal of having a service that can accept a completely arbitrary list of "key": "value" pairs as a raw JSON string and then decide what do do with them without having to know the "key" names beforehand, I combined casper and aaron's advice.</p> <p>1st, to access the raw JSON string, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-receiving-arbitrary-data.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this MSDN blog was very helpful.</a> </p> <p>I was unable to simply change the single method parameter to String and the <code>BodyStyle</code> to <code>WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare</code> without problems. When setting BodyStyle to Bare, make sure that the endpoint <code>behaviorConfiguration</code> is set to <code>&lt;webHttp/&gt;</code> and not <code>&lt;enableWebScript/&gt;</code>.</p> <p>The second note is that, as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2297903/generic-wcf-json-deserialization/2298039#2298039">casperOne mentioned</a>, the method can only have 1 parameter. This parameter needs to be a <code>Stream</code> in order to access the raw text though (see MSDN blog above).</p> <p>Once you have the raw JSON string, it's just a matter of deserializing it into a StringDictionary. I chose JSON.Net for this and it works wonderfully. Here's a bare bones example to illustrate.</p> <pre><code>[OperationContract] [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)] public string Register(Stream rawJSON) { // Convert our raw JSON string into a key, value StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(rawJSON); Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt; registration = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;&gt;( sr.ReadToEnd()); // Loop through the fields we've been sent. foreach (KeyValuePair&lt;string, string&gt; pair in registration) { switch (pair.Key.ToLower()) { case "firstname": return pair.Value; break; } } } </code></pre> <p>This allows me to accept an arbitrary list of fields via JSON and for the field names to be case insensitive. I know it's not the strictest approach to data integrity or to how WCF services would ideally be structured, but, as far as I can tell, it's the simplest way to get where I want to go.</p>
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