Metadata page

ServiceStack will automatically generate a metadata page about the webservice. The metadata can be found under the URL /metadata:

The Metadata page contains:

• A list of all your webservices and the endpoints they are available on.
• A list of coding examples showing you how to call each endpoing a number of different ways.
• Links to all the XSD types used by your web services
• Links to the web services SOAP 1.1 / 1.2 WSDLs

So the main purpose for the metadata page is to provide a small documentation about your service, so other persons can use your service more easily.

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There's also the possibility to create a custom description for a service. To do that, you have to mark your request DTO with the attribute System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute, e. g:

[Description("A service which provides basic get and delete operations for users")]
public class User
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Company { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public int Count { get; set; }
}

If now the detail page of the specific service is inspected, the description configured above will be displayed.