classes to serialization

[jrenae]

I'm trying to construct some classes such that I will get the desired result when serializing:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<LDPDetails xmlns:xsi="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/URL] xmlns:xsd="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">[/URL]
  <DistributionType>SMTP</DistributionType>
  <DistributeTo>
    <EmailList>
     <EmailAddressTo>jean.stiles@reply.com</EmailAddressTo>
     <EmailAddressTo>jeanstiles@comcast.net</EmailAddressTo>
     <EmailAddressFrom>leads@chron.com</EmailAddressFrom>
    </EmailList>
  </DistributeTo>
</LDPDetails>

However this is my output based on the classes below. Notice that I want to suppress the parent <EmailAddressTo> element tag and only include the child <EmailAddressTo> nodes that have the values. Any suggestions on how to construct the EmailList class? Thanks.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<LDPDetails xmlns:xsi="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/URL] xmlns:xsd="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">[/URL]
  <DistributionType>SMTP</DistributionType>
  <DistributeTo>
    <EmailList>
     <EmailAddressTo> --want to suppress
           <EmailAddressTo>jean.stiles@reply.com</EmailAddressTo>
           <EmailAddressTo>jeanstiles@comcast.net</EmailAddressTo>
      </EmailAddressTo>--want to suppress
      <EmailAddressFrom>leads@chron.com</EmailAddressFrom>
    </EmailList>
  </DistributeTo>
</LDPDetails>

classes:

    public class LDPDetails
    {
        private String _distributionType;
        private DistributeTo _distributeTo;
        
        
        public String DistributionType
        {
            get {return this._distributionType;}
            set {this._distributionType = value;}
        }
        public DistributeTo DistributeTo
        {
            get {return this._distributeTo;}
            set {this._distributeTo = value;}
        }
    }
    
    public class DistributeTo
    {
        private EmailList _emailList;
        private String _soapAction;
        private String _contentType;
        private String _url;
        
        public EmailList EmailList
        {
            get {return this._emailList;}
            set {this._emailList = value;}
        }
        public String SoapAction
        {
            get {return this._soapAction;}
            set {this._soapAction = value;}
        }
        public String ContentType
        {
            get {return this._contentType;}
            set {this._contentType = value;}
        }
        public String URL
        {
            get {return this._url;}
            set {this._url = value;}
        }
        
    }
    
    public class EmailList
    {
        private String[] _emailAddressTo;
        private String _emailAddressFrom;

       [XmlArray(ElementName=null)]
       [XmlArrayItem(Type = typeof(string), ElementName = "EmailAddressTo")]
        public String[] EmailAddressTo
        {
            get
            {
                return this._emailAddressTo;
            }
            set
            {
                this._emailAddressTo = value;
            }
        }
        

        public String EmailAddressFrom
        {
            get {return this._emailAddressFrom;}
            set {this._emailAddressFrom = value;}
        }
        
    }

 

[Kalisto]

Have you tried using xsd to generate the classes based on the schema / xml document that you require ?

or use your current class, and add the IXmlSerializable Interface.

Then you can override the WriteXml serlaliser method.

hth

 

[jrenae]

I did use the xsd.exe utility to get my class and it worked great.

Please see the other thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=678

Thanks