Question

I have an auto-generated XML file which I have to fill with values from an oracle database or with a randomly-generated sequence.

For example:

<ns1:message>
        <ns1:messageId>        </ns1:messageId>
        <ns1:languageCode>  </ns1:languageCode>
</ns1:message>

<messageId> should be filled a randomly sequence.

<ns1:languageCode> should be filled with a value from the database.

How can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

There are 2 tasks here actually.

• Producing XML with .NET.

The best way I see so far is using LinqToXML. You can read here, hot to create XML trees.

var xmlTree = new XElement("message", 
         new XElement("messageId", GetRandomMessageId()), 
         new XElement("languageCode", GetRandomLanguageCode()));

• Implementing the methods to generate random data
  GetRandomMessageId(), GetRandomLanguageCode().

Use .NET Random class to make this happen.

Just as an example:

public string GetRandomMessageId()
{
  return "messageId_" + new Random(100);
}

You can customize what ever you like.