Web service return types

[ColinGregory]

Hello

Just teaching myself webservices . . .

Can somebody please help me out and answer the following. I'm trying to access a free webservice which publishes movie times for your area. I've created the proxy ok in VWD Express 2008. The following code appears in my reference.cs file.

What I don't understand is what is the object/variable/data type that is being returned and how do I get at the result of the function?

[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing/GetUpcomingMovies",[/URL] RequestNamespace="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing",[/URL] ResponseNamespace="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing",[/URL] Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]
        public UpcomingMovie[] GetUpcomingMovies(int month, int year) {
            object[] results = this.Invoke("GetUpcomingMovies", new object[] {
                        month,
                        year});
            return ((UpcomingMovie[])(results[0]));
        }

Heres my creation of the proxy class (where movieTimes is the name of my web reference)

movieTimes.MovieInformation mtProxy = new movieTimes.MovieInformation();

Many thanks for your time

 

[jmeckley]

I don't see how [tt]return ((UpcomingMovie[])(results[0]));[/tt] will work. the result of a webservice is either xml or json. in either case you cannot simply cast from a string (xml/json) to a typed object. you need to parse the result to the type you want.

in this case you need to parse a string to an array of UpcommingMovie objects.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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