Consuming a REST XML web service

Question

I\'m trying to consume the following web service http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php this web service returns an xml response, the code below gets the XML response, but

Answer 1

My solution would be:

• run the xsd.exe utility on your result XML twice to convert it to a XSD (first step) and a C# class (second step) - this would give you a C# class Response

• next, you can easily deserialize the response into an instance of that class:

  HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://api.ipinfodb.com/v2/ip_query.php?key=--yourkey--&ip=74.125.45.100&timezone=true") as HttpWebRequest;
  
  XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Response));
  
  WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
  var result = ser.Deserialize(response.GetResponseStream());
  

  and now your result would contain an instance of Response, with all the elements as nice fields in your object.

Read more about xsd.exe on its MSDN doc page.