Question

I’m using RestSharp to make some REST calls. I defined the XmlElement ElementName parameter expecting to XmlSerializer use it, but it didn’t happen.

public class A {
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "id")]
    public int? Id { get; set; }
}

The RestSharp request was with <Id>123</Id> instead of <id>123</id>.

var request = new RestRequest("/a.xml", Method.POST);
request.AddObject(A_obj); // A_obj is a instance of A
RestResponse<A> response = (RestResponse<A>)client.Execute<A>(request);

What I’m missing here?

Answer 1

RestSharp ignores the XmlElement annotation. Use SerializeAs instead.

[SerializeAs(Name = "id")]
public int? Id { get; set; }