How To Pass Soap Header When WSDL Doesn't Define It?

Question

I have a web service that I am calling and their published WSDL doesn\'t actually define much of the service, 3/4 of it you have to manually build afterwards.

The pr

Answer 1

If you need fine grain control over how the soap header xml gets rendered (happens when interfacing with a webservice written with java), you can always override all rendering by implementing IXmlSerializable

[XmlRoot("customHeader", Namespace = "http://somecompany.com/webservices/security/2012/topSecret")]
public class customHeader: SoapHeader, IXmlSerializable
{
    public customHeader()
    {
        Actor = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next";
        MustUnderstand = false;
    }

    public System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema GetSchema()
    {
        return null;
        //throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void ReadXml(XmlReader reader)
    {
        //throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void WriteXml(XmlWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteAttributeString("soap:actor", Actor);
        writer.WriteAttributeString("soap:mustUnderstand", MustUnderstand ? "1" : "0");
        writer.WriteRaw("some encrypted data");
        //get it exactly the way you want it in here without mucking with Xml* property attributes for hours on end
        //writer.WriteElement(...);
    }
}