Deserializing XML from API in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I'm building a asp.net MVC program that will consume a xml-based API using httpclient and deserializing it into object using XmlSerializer.
But got an error : There is an error in XML document (1, 2).
Inner exception: {"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Service.Models'> was not expected."}
My suspicion is somehow I messed up the model class, but I'm not sure. Thanks!

XML from API:

<ArrayDTO xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/RestService.Models">
  <LaborDTO>
    <CreateDate>2014-04-09T09:20:15.57</CreateDate>
    <CreateUser>test</CreateUser>
  </LaborDTO>
  <LaborDTO>
    <CreateDate>2014-04-09T09:20:15.57</CreateDate>
    <CreateUser>test</CreateUser>
  </LaborDTO>
</ArrayDTO>

Below is my C# code:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
....
HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(serviceString).Result;
....
XmlSerializer ds = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ArrayDTO));
var obj = ds.Deserialize(response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync().Result);
ArrayDTO data = (ArrayDTO) obj;
foreach (var item in ArrayDTO.collection) {
....
}

this my model class:

public class LaborDTO
{
    public Nullable<System.DateTime> CreateDate { get; set; }
    public string CreateUser { get; set; }
}

public class ArrayDTO
{
    [XmlAttribute("xmlns")]
    public string schema { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("LaborDTO")]
    public LaborDTO[] collection { get; set; }
}

L.B · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-04 19:27:59Z

3

All you need is using the Xml namespace

[XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/RestService.Models")]
public class ArrayDTO
{
    [XmlElement("LaborDTO")]
    public LaborDTO[] collection { get; set; }
}

answered Sep 4, 2014 at 19:27

L.B

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