Question

Continuing to develop the API I have mentioned in previous posts, I have come across the following situation:

I need to be able to access a list of responses returned by the
webservice.

Problem is I am unsure how to implement IEnumerable on this class.

...
public class ResponseBodyResponse
{
    public ResponseListResponse ResponseList { get; set; }

    public class ResponseListResponse 
    {
        public ResponseInfoResponse ResponseInfo { get; set; }

        public class ResponseInfoResponse 
        {
            public string RequestId { get; set; }
            public string RequestType { get; set; }
            public DateTime RequestDate { get; set; }
            public string RequestStatus { get; set; }
            public string Error { get; set; }
            public string Memo { get; set; }
        }

        public ResponseListResponse()
        {
            ResponseInfo = new ResponseInfoResponse();
        }
    }

    public ResponseBodyResponse()
    {
        ResponseList = new ResponseListResponse();
    }
...

Before anyone asks I did get a copy of the xsd files, however generating the classes using xsd.exe resulted in a ridiculous mishmash of files with conflicting class names causing over 1000 ambiguous naming errors.

Answer 1

You really should return a concrete collection such as a list or an array from a web service instead of an implementation IEnumerable<T>, even though lists and arrays (and other colections) do implement it. Its not IEnumerable<T> that is the key for the serialization.

Aside, the nested class structure makes your code hard to consume.

Since I’m not sure of your intent with your above code, here is an example

public class Road 
{
    public Car[] Cars { get; set; } // this can be also `List<Car>`
}
public class Car
{
    // stuff
}