Question

I have a c# class like this as a return for my WCF method:

[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("OutputItem")]
public class MyItem
{
    [XmlElement("ItemName")] 
    public string NodeName { get; set; }

    [XmlArray("Fields"), XmlArrayItem(ElementName = "Field", Type = typeof(MyItemField))]
    public List<MyItemField> Fields { get; set; }

}

My WCF method is as such:

public MyItem GetItemXML(string id)
{
   MyItem mi = new MyItem();

   //do some stuff to populate mi

   return mi;   
}

I expect the XML output of this to be something like this:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <GetItemXMLResponse xmlns="http://www.here.com/XML/ItemService.xsd">
      <GetItemXMLResult>
        <OutputItem>
           <ItemName>FR</ItemName>
           <Fields>
            ......
           </Fields>
        </OutputItem>
      </GetItemXMLResult>
    </GetItemXMLResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

However, the output that is coming out is as follows – without the <OutputItem> directive at the top:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <GetItemXMLResponse xmlns="http://www.here.com/XML/ItemService.xsd">
      <GetItemXMLResult>
           <ItemName>FR</ItemName>
           <Fields>
            ......
           </Fields>
      </GetItemXMLResult>
    </GetItemXMLResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

What am I missing?

Answer 1

// The Model Object

[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("OutputItem")]
[DataContractAttribute]
public class MyObject
{
    [XmlElement("ItemName")]
    [DataMemberAttribute] 
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [XmlArray("DummyItems")]
    [XmlArrayItem("DummyItem", typeof(MyItemField))]
    public List<Fields> DummyItem { get; set; }
}



// The Class that implement the contract
[DataContract]
public class ConsumptionService : IAnyContract
{
    public MyObject GetItemXML(string id)
    {
       MyObject mo = new MyObject();
       //do some stuff to populate mi
       MyObject mo;   
    }
 }