I am having real trouble trying to deserialize some XML and was hoping someone can offer some assistance. I have read a lot of similar posts but I am unable to resolve this.
XML I am attempting to deserialize
<register-account success="false">
<user-name>xxxxx</user-name>
<password>fghgh</password>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<error>
<errorcode>120</errorcode>
<errormessage>The password is invalid</errormessage>
</error>
</register-account>
Class I am trying to deserialize to:
[Serializable, XmlRoot(ElementName = "register-account", Namespace = "MyNamespace")]
[XmlType("register-account")]
public class RegisterAccountResponse
{
[XmlAttribute("success")]
public bool Success { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the Tennant email address
/// </summary>
[XmlElement("email")]
public string Email { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the tennant password
/// </summary>
[XmlElement("password")]
public string Password { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the Tennant username
/// </summary>
[XmlElement("user-name")]
public string Username { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// A Tenant Portal error relating to the RegisterAccountRequest
/// </summary>
[XmlElement("error")]
public QubeError Error;
}
Deserialization Method
public static T Deserialize<T>(string data) where T : class
{
if (data == null)
{
return null;
}
if (data.Trim().Length == 0)
{
return null;
}
var ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
using (var sr = new StringReader(data))
{
return (T)ser.Deserialize(sr);
}
}
Deserialization Method Call
var data = Helper.Deserialize<RegisterAccountResponse>(xml);
Exception:
There is an error in XML document (1, 2). ---> System.InvalidOperationException: was not expected. at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderData.Read5_data()
Inner Exception as follows:
<register-account xmlns=''> was not expected.
Simply take off the Namespace =
:
[XmlRoot("register-account"), XmlType("register-account")]
public class RegisterAccountResponse {...}
since your xml doesn't seem to be in an xml-namespace. Also, [Serializable]
isn't used by XmlSerializer
.
If your xml was using a namespace it would have an xmlns
at the root.
Also, to help with callers you could add where T : class, new()
(the , new()
being the addition) to your Deserialize
method, since XmlSerializer
demands a public parameterless constructor.
Nothing worked here for me
What worked is to MAKE SURE that the C# Class (main class) you are trying to map/deserialize the xml string to HAS AN XmlRootAttribute that matches the root element of the response.
Check my full answer with an exmaple https://stackoverflow.com/a/61525536/1594274
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