WCF Client unable to serialize (object is always null)

Hello Techies,

Below is the code snippet of the WCF proxy that I created with "SvcUtil" with XmlSerializer. I call the "upload" method using the proxy class and the method returns "uploadResponse" object. Within this object the "informations" object is always null. I verfied with fiddler and I noticed my call had valid Request and Response SOAP XML.

[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.ServiceModel.MessageContractAttribute(WrapperName="uploadResponse", WrapperNamespace="http://services.ws.svgeda.bdf.fr/", IsWrapped=true)]
public partial class uploadResponse
{
[System.ServiceModel.MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Namespace = "http://services.ws.svgeda.bdf.fr/", Name = "informations")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement(Namespace = "http://services.ws.svgeda.bdf.fr/", ElementName= "informations")]
public ResponseUpload informations;
public uploadResponse()
{
}
public uploadResponse(ResponseUpload informations)
{
this.informations = informations;
}
}

I tried tweaking the proxy by adding "Name" element to the "MessageBodyMemberAttribute" And I set the value for the namespace which was empty. And I also added XmlElement to see if it changes something.

Below is the XML snippet that's returned by the WCF calls to the method "upload" of the WS.

xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF8'?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>
<soapenv:Body>
<rpcOp:uploadResponse xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance' xmlns:rpcOp='http://services.ws.svgeda.bdf.fr/'>
<informations xmlns:ns2='http://services.ws.svgeda.bdf.fr/'>
<idSource>?idSource>
<idGeda>{E08AEC690000CB1D96BEB5C2299E9E4E}idGeda>
informations>
rpcOp:uploadResponse>
soapenv:Body>
soapenv:Envelope>

Any idea why the informations object is empty? All the other methods in the Web service(delete, update) return a response object which also contains a property named "informations" but with different types.

Thanks & Regards,
Clement

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Jefferson S. Motta7y ago
Reading your POST:

"Any idea why the informations object is empty? All the other methods in the Web service(delete, update) return a response object which also contains a property named "informations" but with different types. "

May "informations" is defined in other namespace or may this word be restricted.

I would try to change the name "informations".

Good luck.