How to return my own XML?

[Christopher Ambler]

When I create a web service, and create a web method that returns a string,
the output is always framed within a tag that looks like:

<string xmlns="http://ewws.example.com/"> </string>

What I'd really like to do is eliminate this string and form my own XML to
send back.

Is this possible?

Christopher

 

[Kunal Das]

Dont know if this is a "best practice", but it works for me, Send it back
via another class. but make sure the secondary class is not the first one
within the namespace, VS.net doesn't like that, it'll say, "The Class
Service1 can be designed, but it is not the first class in the file", so
make sure its something like this:

public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService

{

public Service1()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

[WebMethod]

public URLstr ReturnMyURL()

{

URLstr ustring = new URLstr();

ustring.somestring = "ewws.example.com";

return ustring;

}

public class URLstr

{

public string somestring;

}

Output I got:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <URLstr xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<somestring>ewws.example.com</somestring>
</URLstr>
Hope this helps.

Kunal

 

[Rimsky]

Create your own public class with the properties that you
want to return and return that class instead of a
string. For example, lets say that your webmethod
returns customer information. Create the public
class "Customer" with properties Name, ID, ... all of
them can be string, int, etc. Then make your webmethod
return your class, not a string. The result will be
something like

<Customer>
<Name>Test Name</Name>
<ID>1</ID>
</Customer>

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
Dont know if this is a "best practice", but it works for me, Send it back
via another class. but make sure the secondary class is not the first one
within the namespace, VS.net doesn't like that, it'll say, "The Class
Service1 can be designed, but it is not the first class in the file", so
make sure its something like this:

public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService

{

public Service1()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

[WebMethod]

public URLstr ReturnMyURL()

{

URLstr ustring = new URLstr();

ustring.somestring = "ewws.example.com";

return ustring;

}

public class URLstr

{

public string somestring;

}

Output I got:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <URLstr xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<somestring>ewws.example.com</somestring>
</URLstr>
Hope this helps.

Kunal

When I create a web service, and create a web method

that returns a
string,

the output is always framed within a tag that looks like:

<string xmlns="http://ewws.example.com/"> </string>

What I'd really like to do is eliminate this string and form my own XML to
send back.

Is this possible?

Christopher

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