Question

I’m creating a webservice for a customer in ASP.Net v3.5.
Currently, we have the an object similar to the following that gets returned by one of the webservice methods:

public class blah
{
 public DateTime datetime;
 public int someData;
}

Now, the customer has sent me the following request:

In your schema you have a single entry for a xsd:dateTime. Can you
split that into two fields one for date and the other for time. The
use of a xsd:date and xsd:time should be fine as the object types.

Obviously, I can alter the class as follows:

public class blah
{
 public DateTime date;
 public DateTime time;
 public int someData;
}

But I assume that will actually produce two fields of “xsd:DateTime” and not one of each as he is requesting.

Please can you advise how I would achieve the results my customer is expecting?

Answer 1

public class Blah
{
 [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement(Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", DataType="time")]
 public DateTime time;

 [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement(Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", DataType="time")]
 public DateTime date;

 public int someData
}

This seems to be exactly what I’m looking for!