SOAP Webservice XML response

.NET
1

Hey guys

I have a SOAP webservice. One method has a return type of XmlDocument.

I then sent this service to guys that need to consume it. And this is there response:

I see the web service returns and xml string. Why not just wrap the results in the web service response itself?

Any ideas what he means by that? I have asked, but I have received no reply from him yet.

Any ideas? That I can make it return proper XML and not XML formatted string?

Thanks

2

Might help to know what stack the other guys are wokring in–that can explain alot. And can you post the method signatures?

3

They are writing an iPhone/Android app that talks to the service.

[WebMethod]
public XmlDocument getAd();

It generates a valid xml string and loads the doc from that. Then I return the doc. If I invoke the method in the browser, it shows me XML.

Maybe they making a mistake. I will try and follow up with other android/iphone app dev guys and see how it goes.

4

Ok, I think they are asking you to make an object and pass that so the response to the service. Eg:


public class MyDto
{
    public string Name {get; set; }
    public string Id {get; set; }
}

//service signature
public MyDto GetData() { . . . }

The response gets encoded as an xml string, but the generated WSDL will help the iPhone guys tooling create an object for you rather than manually parsing the XML.

5

ah, ok thanks. I understand. I will do that.

Thanks for the help