Question

I’m receiving a 400 bad request error w/ the following code:

This is my WCF service contract

[WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "/cust_key/{key}/prod_id/{id}", 
           Method = "POST",
           BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, 
           RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml, 
           ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
Stream GetData(string key, string id, XElment data);

The following xml payload will work and a 200 will be returned

<Product>
  <Name>laptop</Name>
</Product>

BUT this xml below w/ a non-default namespace will cause a 400 error

<Productxsi:type="electronics" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Name>laptop</Name>
</Product>

How should I handle this namespace issue?

Answer 1

It turned out to be a silly thing: I escaped the quote in the xml and now it’s working…sorry about this silly question. Hopefully this in some way can help somebody.