Question

I’ve got a variable failure, that can have three values: passed, failure, or error. What I want to happen during serialization is to create an element based on the value. For passed, I want to ignore the element. For failure I want a failure element. For error, I want an error element. How can this be done?

In the class Test, there is a list of Steps called m_steps. In Step there is a variable called m_failure, which holds passed, failure or error. I want the element created by m_steps to be non-element(passed), failure, or error.

[XmlRoot("testsuite")]
public class Suite
{
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string m_name;

    [XmlElement("testcase")]
    public List<Test> m_tests;

    [XmlIgnore]
    public string m_timestamp;


public class Test
{
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string m_name;

    [XmlElement("failure")] // want to be ignore, failure or error instead of just failure
    public List<Step> m_steps;

    [XmlAttribute("assertions")]
    public int m_assertions;
}


public class Step
{
    [XmlIgnore]
    public string m_failure; // holds passed, failure, or error

    [XmlTextAttribute]
    public string m_message;

    [XmlIgnore]
    public string m_image;

    [XmlAttribute("type")]
    public string m_type;
}

Looking for:

To:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<testsuite name=" SimpleCalculationsSuite" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> 
  -<testcase name="Add 3+4" assertions="1"></testcase>
  -<testcase name="Fail 3-4" assertions="1"> 
     <failure type="Text">The control text is not correct. Expected-7 Actual--1</failure> 
   </testcase> 
  -<testcase name="Error 3*4" assertions="1"> 
     <error type="Click">The * button was not found</error> 
 </testsuite>

From:

Suite: SimpleCalculationsSuite
Test:Add 3+4
Passed:Text:The control text, 7, is correct.
Test:Fail 3-4
Failed:Text:The control text is not correct. Expected-7 Actual--1
Test:Error 3*4
Error:Click: The * button was not found

Answer 1

I ended up modifying Test to also include a list of errors. With this I was able to have both failure and error nodes present in the XML file. I also had to modify some of the program to allow this to happen.