web service return dataset

[jamesd]

In the past I have taken the easy way out and programmed my web
services to return a dataset. This was fine because my consumers were
guaranteed to be .net consumers, so they could easily process the .net
dataset.

Now I must build a web service that returns data to the consumer in a
more generic way, that all consumers (c++, java) can consume.

Is there a helper function anywhere to take care of this easily?

I imagine I just need helper function that will convert the datatable
to xml...

please advise.

 

[Martin Kulov [MVP]]

In the past I have taken the easy way out and programmed my web
services to return a dataset. This was fine because my consumers were
guaranteed to be .net consumers, so they could easily process the .net
dataset.

Now I must build a web service that returns data to the consumer in a
more generic way, that all consumers (c++, java) can consume.

Is there a helper function anywhere to take care of this easily?

I imagine I just need helper function that will convert the datatable
to xml...

Hi James,

as you know Datasets are transferred over the wire in XML format so you can
look for or implement a parser that handles the xml. Dataset class has
GetXml() method that returns the raw XML.
Also you may choose to use custom objects and serialize them by applying
XmlElementAttribute and etc.

Regards,