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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:02:05+00:00

I’m trying to post to my WCF Service from an iPhone app. I have

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I’m trying to post to my WCF Service from an iPhone app. I have the app posting to the service and trying to send data in the form of a service data contract in XML like below:

NSData *myPostData = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<AddMediaItem xmlns='http://www.example.com'><Item xmlns:a='http://www.example.com/MediaItem'><a:MediaType>iPhone</a:MediaType><a:Description>Description</a:Description><a:Name>Test</a:Name><a:ImageType>JPEG</a:ImageType></Item></AddMediaItem>"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSMutableData *myMutablePostData = [NSMutableData dataWithData:myPostData];

[request setPostBody:myMutablePostData];  
[request setRequestMethod:@"POST"];  
[request addRequestHeader:@"Content-Type" value:@"application/xml"];  

[request setDidFinishSelector:@selector(uploadFinished:)];
[request setDidFailSelector:@selector(uploadFailed:)];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request startAsynchronous];

For testing purposes, I’ve setup my service to return the data contract that I send to the service. However, when it returns, some of the values seem to be NULLs although from the code above, I am giving them values.

What also seems strange is that the Name data member always has a value, but the other 3 I’m sending return NULL or with the correct values based on the order they appear in the XML I post to the service.

Below is the code for my service contract:

[ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://www.example.com")]
public interface IImageDiaryService
{

    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "AddMediaItem", Method = "POST", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped, RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
    MediaItem AddMediaItem(MediaItem Item);

}

Below is my code for my MediaItem data contract:

[DataContract(Namespace = "http://www.example.com/MediaItem")]
public class MediaItem
{

    [DataMember]
    public Int32 Id { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public String Name { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public String Description { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public String ImageData { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public String ImageType { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public String MediaType { get; set; }

}

Do let me know if you need any further code.

Any help is much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The order is important in data contracts – by default the data members are ordered alphabetically, but you can override it by using the Order property of [DataMember]. Try reordering the fields and you’ll get the values populated correctly

    <AddMediaItem xmlns='http://www.example.com'>
  <Item xmlns:a='http://www.example.com/MediaItem'>
    <a:Description>Description</a:Description>
    <a:ImageType>JPEG</a:ImageType>
    <a:MediaType>iPhone</a:MediaType>
    <a:Name>Test</a:Name>
  </Item>
</AddMediaItem>
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