Question

My web services are rusty so I hope I’m just missing something kind of obvious.

I have a WCF service that, in part, relays calls it receives to a third party SOAP service. The service receives an object that matches the body of the SOAP message that needs to be sent.

I’ve added a service reference based on the SOAP service’s WSDL to the project and created and instance of the service proxy class. The service method I want to call has 30+ parameters.

I could call it with MyService.TheMethod(obj.value1, obj.value2, obj.value3...), but it would be nice to just pass the original object on or XML serialize it and pass the XML as a body.

Is there something that would allow an easier approach or do I need to individually pass obj’s properties onto the SOAP method?

UPDATE

Clarifying the underlying issue.

My .NET service accepts something “Group”

public class Person { string Name; int Age;}
public class Group { string Name; Person[] Individuals; }

I then need to call the third party web service (TPWS). The proxy class generated from the WSDL winds up like:

public class WSPerson { string Name; uint Age;}
public class WSGroup { string Name; WSPerson[] Individuals; }

I’d been doing earlier prototyping and working with the TPWS through SoapUI and using tags matching my original (.NET) classes’ naming:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ws="http://ws.myabc123.com" xmlns:ns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/" xmlns:sys="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System" xmlns:arr="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
   <soapenv:Header>
      <ws:ServiceCredentials>
         <ws:SubscriberId>ABC</ws:SubscriberId>
         <ws:SubscriberUser>Joe</ws:SubscriberUser>
         <ws:SubscriberPassword>12345</ws:SubscriberPassword>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <ws:SubscriberIdentityStore></ws:SubscriberIdentityStore>
      </ws:ServiceCredentials>
   </soapenv:Header>
   <soapenv:Body>
    <Group>
      <Name>Cool People</Name>
      <Individuals>
        <Person>
          <Name>Tom</Name>
          <Age>25</Age>
        </Person>
        <Person>
          <Name>Jane</Name>
          <Age>27</Age>
        </Person>
      </Individuals>
    </Group>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope> 

Answer 1

There’s no easy way to do what you want. If the service you’re calling has 30 parameters, you’ll just have to call it with 30 parameters.