Complex XML document via SOAP?

[-P-]

Can someone point me to an example of passing a complex, highly nested XML document to a WebService via SOAP?

Nearly all the examples I've seen pass a handful of discrete arguments - foo.bar( int a, date b, string c) - which the
SOAP abstraction layer marshalls into an XML structure. I'm interested in seeing what happens when the argument itself
is an XML document, such as an Order/Line/Item structure.

Or would that just be a single String argument? Am I making that too difficult?

-P-

 

[Mujtaba Syed]

How about this:

[SoapDocumentMethod(ParameterStyle=SoapParamterStyle.Bare,
Use=SoapBindingUse.Literal)]
public void MyWebMethod([XmlElement] XmlElement req) { //... }

Mujtaba.

Can someone point me to an example of passing a complex, highly nested XML

document to a WebService via SOAP?

Nearly all the examples I've seen pass a handful of discrete arguments -

foo.bar( int a, date b, string c) - which the

SOAP abstraction layer marshalls into an XML structure. I'm interested in

seeing what happens when the argument itself

 

[Dan Rogers]

Hi,

Sure, this is simple. I am assuming you mean the method signature is what
you are interested in.

Here's a simple purchase order example. Assume the purchase order class is
highly nested, has repeating detail lines, etc.

The method signature for a SavePO method might look like this:

[WebMethod]
PurchaseOrder SavePo (PurchaseOrder data)
{
if (data != null)
return PersistPOClass(data);
}

make sure that the service class is marked as being document literal as
well - this is the default however in ASP.net 1.1.

I hope this helps

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation

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Can someone point me to an example of passing a complex, highly nested XML

document to a WebService via SOAP?

Nearly all the examples I've seen pass a handful of discrete arguments -

foo.bar( int a, date b, string c) - which the

SOAP abstraction layer marshalls into an XML structure. I'm interested in

seeing what happens when the argument itself

 

[Dilip Krishnan]

Hello -P-,
This should help
http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2004/11/18/3554.aspx

HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

 

[erymuzuan]

Why not start from XML schema for both Request and response objects,
eventhough web services can be used for RPC, or distributed object it's
best used as messaging infrastructure. Then use xsd.exe to generate the
code for the objects, or better still you can hand crafyed the WSDL

[WebMethod]
public MakeOrderResponse MakeOrder(MakeOrderRequest MakeOrderRequest)
{
}

Regards
Erymuzuan Mustapa