I am using WCF to return a plain old XML (POX) document to the caller. I am using the XML Serializer formatter to turn the objects into XML.
In the returned docum
Not sure if this will help, but we had a similar issue. Instead of decorating thousands of data elements with DataContract/DataMember attributes and using the (default) DataContractSerializer, we found that if our WCF service used the XmlSerializerFormat instead, we could easily deserialize our objects.
[System.ServiceModel.ServiceContract]
public interface IRestService
{
[System.ServiceModel.OperationContract]
// Added this attribute to use XmlSerializer instead of DataContractSerializer
[System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormat(
Style=System.ServiceModel.OperationFormatStyle.Document)]
[System.ServiceModel.Web.WebGet(
ResponseFormat = System.ServiceModel.Web.WebMessageFormat.Xml,
UriTemplate = "xml/objects/{myObjectIdentifier}")]
MyObject GetMyObject(int myObjectIdentifier);
}
This is how we're deserializing the objects:
public static T DeserializeTypedObjectFromXmlString(string input)
{
T result;
try
{
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xs = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
using (System.IO.TextReader textReader = new System.IO.StringReader(input))
{
result = (T)xs.Deserialize(textReader);
}
}
catch
{
throw;
}
return result;
}