Question

I am using webclient to deserialize XML content from a webservice:

var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SearchArticles), new XmlRootAttribute("search_articles"));
var results = (SearchArticles)serializer.Deserialize(response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync().Result);

The xml content is like:

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><search_articles><articles hits=\"10134\"><article><id>1763794</id>...

My Models look like:

public class SearchArticles
{
    [XmlElement("articles")]
    public ArticleHelper articles { get; set; }
}

public class ArticleHelper
{
    [XmlAttribute("hits")]
    public long hits { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("article")]
    public List<Article> articles { get; set; }
}

public class Article
{
    public long id { get; set; }
    public string partner { get; set; }
    public string number { get; set; }
    public long number_is_generated { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }
    public long company_id { get; set; }
}

This is working, but how can I avoid having the ArticleHelper ?

Answer 1

You can remove ArticleHelper by modifying SearchArticles and Article as:

public class SearchArticles
{
    [XmlArray("articles")]
    [XmlArrayItem("article", Type = typeof(Article))]
    public List<Article> articles { get; set; }
}

public class Article
{
    public long id { get; set; }
    public string partner { get; set; }
    public string number { get; set; }
    public long number_is_generated { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }
    public long company_id { get; set; }
}

However, you lose access the hits attribute value.