web api in xml format

Hi,

1)To get the output of webapi in xml, you only need to set the header while calling API method from client
Accept: 'application/xml'

If you want your webapi sohuld emit only xml then set the line in global.asax file

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.XmlFormatter.MediaTypeMappings.Add(new  QueryStringMapping("xml", "true", "application/xml"));
Hope this works.

2)To convert xml to a class, you need to use xmlSerializer class
var deserializer = new XmlSerializer(className.GetType());
var convertedXml = deserializer.Deserialize(textReader);
textReader.Close();

3)To connect to webapi from jquery client is simple directly call the api url in ajax call.
but to connect on serverside coding, then create a object of HttpClient

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost/");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/xml"));
HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync("api/User").Result;

if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var users = response.Content.ReadAsAsync&
>()).Result;
}


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