Reading an XML file using DataContracts

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Hi, I am trying to DeSerialize this XML file with DataContracts. string xmlData = @" '1.0' encoding= 'utf-8' standalone= 'yes' ?> '0' > object > CF7E7B22-1D3A-4CFE-91F9-F8C5C2DB4069 ED98C97F-A202-48ED-AEEA-34362508A30B NorthernLights file 1614924419 68934805-fa78-4d84-aac1-fbcde4a7a8f2.png image/png object > "; I have created this structure with classes: Objects -- Object -- Permission Content --- File I have no errors when I DeSerialize the XML data but no objects will be created. My code is as follow; Objects objects = new Objects(); objects = dataCSUtility.DeSerializer (xmlData); Nothing will be assigned to objects! Can anybody solve this?

Hakan Axheim · Answer

I have created those two classes. Can anyone see something wrong? namespace Test.Model { using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Runtime.Serialization; [KnownType( typeof (IList ))] [DataContract(Name= "objects" ,Namespace = "" )] public class Objects { [DataMember(Name = "Images" , EmitDefaultValue = false )] public IList Images { get ; set ; } } } namespace Test.Model { using System; using System.Runtime.Serialization; [DataContract(Name= "object" ,Namespace = "" )] public class Object : Objects { [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false )] public Guid Id { get ; set ; } [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false )] public Guid ParentId { get ; set ; } [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false )] public string Name { get ; set ; } [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false )] public string Type { get ; set ; } [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false )] public int DateAdded { get ; set ; } } }

Hakan Axheim · Answer

Hi Kiran, I have tried that and it works for me but it was not really what I was looking for. I wan't to use classes with DataContracts and DataElement to Deserialize a XML into objects. As you see in my question the XML file is a structure of classes and I want to deserialize into classes. I have succeded to dot that at the top level (root level=objects) but not at the object level, the level under the root level.

Kiran Mohanty · Answer

Hi, Try using below code. XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlData); //or XDocument.Load(path) string jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeXNode(doc); dynamic dyn = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject (jsonText); Convert XML input to string and then parse the string to json object of datatype "dynamic".

Reading an XML file using DataContracts

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