How to represent a list of custom objects using Xml Serialization

Question

I want to produce the following xml output

<account>
    <id>123456</id>
    <roles>
        <role master-name="I80">
            <id>88</id>
            <unit>Implementer</unit>
        </role>
        <role master-name="S20">
            <id>21</id>
            <unit>Support</unit>
        </role>
    </roles>
</account>

So I create the following class

[XmlRoot("account")]
public class Account
{
    [XmlElement("id")]
    public int ID { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("roles")]
    public RolesList Roles { get; set; }
}

public class RolesList
{
    [XmlElement("role")]
    public List<Role> roles { get; set; }
}

public class Role
{
    [XmlAttribute("master-name")]
    public string MasterName { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("id")]
    public int ID { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("unit")]
    public string Unit { get; set; }
}

My question is, Is there a way to represent this any better? I want to avoid creating the RolesList class.

Paolo Tedesco · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-08 16:41:13Z

2

You should declare the list of roles like this in Account:

[XmlArray("roles")]
[XmlArrayItem("role")]
public List<Role> Roles { get; set; }

answered Jul 8, 2012 at 16:41

Paolo Tedesco

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2 Comments

Kishore Masand Over a year ago

I will try that, but I think XArrayItem will produce the element <Role> instead of <role> (lowercase)

Paolo Tedesco Over a year ago

@KishoreMasand: have you tried it out? I had tested it, and it seemed to work correctly.

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