How can we have dynamic xml element name in C# class file?-CodePudding

This is my current XML Response tag

<Response_Data_1234 diffgr:id="Response_Data_1234" msdata:rowOrder="0" diffgr:hasChanges="inserted">
<Status>File received.</Status>
<Time>2022-01-25T09:44:15.73 08:00</Time>
<Location>HKG</Location>
</Response_Data_1234>

the number 1234 in <Response_Data_1234> is a Response Data id, which will be dynamic depending on the request. Could someone please me create a C# class in this scenario so that I can map the response directly to the class. Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

Actually you should not have any unique identifier attached to XML element name. It should be added as attribute.

To answer your question: There is no direct class attribute to ignore class name while deserialisation of xml string to object.

Option1 (better): Create mapper extension method for XNode to class attribute mapping and reuse it.

Option2: If your xml string is small you can try to update name of root element and use it to deserialise.

sample code:


    var responseDataXDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
    responseDataXDoc.Root.Name = "ResponseData";

    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ResponseData));
    var responseData = serializer.Deserialize(new StringReader(responseDataXDoc.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting)));

CodePudding user response：

With Cinchoo ETL - an open source library, you can deserialize such xml easily as below

using (var r = ChoXmlReader<ResponseData>.LoadText(xml)
       .WithXPath("//")
       .WithXmlNamespace("diffgr", "")
       .WithXmlNamespace("msdata", "")
      )
{
    var rec = r.FirstOrDefault();
    rec.Print();
}

public class ResponseData
{
    public string Status { get; set; }
    public DateTime Time { get; set; }
    public string Location { get; set; }
}

Sample fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/HOOPOg