Dynamics AX: No metadata class defined for data contract object

March 25, 2014 at 16:14
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When creating and using services you can get the following error:

No metadata class defined for data contract object

When you get this error it means that you are trying to use a type as a data contract that is not a valid data contract type.
Valid type are primitive types, tables and views, data contracts, containers, EDT’s, and collections (For a full list of supported types, check the Using Data Contracts in X++ [AX 2012] page on msdn.

To figure out what data member is causing a problem, put a breakpoint at the throw error in the SysOperationDataContractInfo.newParameterInfo() method. When the breakpoint is hit, the data member will be displayed in the _parentMethodParameterName variable and the type in the dictClass variable.

To solve the problem, use a type that is supported. If you want to pass a class, either pass it as a container (e.g. using a pack() method), or better yet, define the class as a data contract with data members.

Note: I’ve also seen this error pop up when the data contract wasn’t correctly compiled. Simply put a breakpoint as described above to figure out what data contract is causing the problem and compile the class (both X++ and CIL). Keep in mind that you might have to compile forward if the class is extended, or do a compile forward on the class that it extends.

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  1. Roel Goens

    on May 15, 2014 at 10:16

    Just had this error… Google brought me straight to this site ;)

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