Question

Can anyone give me some advice?
An API I’m consulting generates a pattern like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ChatXMLResult>
    <Generator>AppServer.network.lcpdfr.com</Generator>
    <Version>1000</Version>
    <Time>1305910998</Time>
    <Signature>a0f1f6bea66f75de574babd242e68c47</Signature>
    <FilteredResultSet>1</FilteredResultSet>
    <Messages>
        <Message>
            <ID>1</ID>
            <UID>9</UID>
            <DisplayName>Jay</DisplayName>
            <UserName>jaymac407</UserName>
            <Time>1305900497</Time>
            <Area>Masterson St</Area>
            <Message>Test</Message>
            <TargettedMessage>false</TargettedMessage>
            <Targets>
                <Target>#Global Chat#</Target>
            </Targets>
            <Signature>1cfdff1aaa520348d0a62c87ae9717d3</Signature>
        </Message>
    </Messages>
</ChatXMLResult>

How can I get all messages from this in C#?

Answer 1

See Attributes that control XML Serialization, e.g.:

[XmlRoot("ChatXMLResult")] 
public class Chat
{
    [XmlElement("Signature")] // optional 
    public string Signature { get; set; }

    [XmlArray]
    [XmlArrayItem(typeof(Message), ElementName="Message")]
    public Message[] Messages { get; set; }
}

public class Message { .. }

etc

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Also I see the common element, <Signature />, thus you can introduce a parent class:

public abstract class SignedObject
{
    public string Signature { get; set; }
}