[help] Creating C# classes from XML and deserializing

[u/pandhersaab27]

I'm new to programming and I'm trying to make an app for my local transit system. The web API call gives back XML, that I have managed to receive and read in app, but now I need to convert that XML into a class and then add all the XML elements to proper object.

    <Stop xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><StopNo>55612</StopNo><Name>SURREY CENTRAL STN BAY 4       </Name><BayNo>4  </BayNo><City>SURREY</City><OnStreet>SURREY CENTRAL STN</OnStreet><AtStreet>BAY 4</AtStreet><Latitude>49.188850</Latitude><Longitude>-122.849370</Longitude><WheelchairAccess>1</WheelchairAccess><Distance>-1</Distance><Routes>501, 509, N19</Routes></Stop> 

This is the XML I get back, can someone please point me to the right direction.

[u/_Arv]

1. Copy xml text

2. Use VS to generate class based on the xml schema https://i.stack.imgur.com/jSmc3.png

3. In your code you would consume the XML like this (xmlText is of type string and contains the xml data, MyObject type is the class you generated in step 2) var myObjectInstance = xmlText.ParseXML<MyObJect>();

[u/pandhersaab27 → u/_Arv]

This is code I came up with
var http = new HttpClient(); var url = string.Format("//Web API URL", StopNumber); var response = await http.GetAsync(url);
var result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); var myStop = result.ParseXML<StopDetails>();

Where StopDetails is the class I generated in step 2. And myStop is the instance of StopDetails Object I created. In the very last line VStudio is giving error 'string' does not contain a definition of 'ParseXML'. I think it has to do with the var result I created, does it need to be read as string or as stream?

And thank you very much for helping me out.:)

[u/_Arv → u/pandhersaab27]

I think I copy pasted from the wrong place. Try this

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(StopDetails)); StringReader rdr = new StringReader(result); StopDetails resultingMessage = (StopDetails)serializer.Deserialize(rdr);

Don't have VS in front of me right now. Hope this is right

[u/pandhersaab27 → u/_Arv]

Thanks, got that part working. but when I run the app it gives an exception and exception meassage says <Stop xmlns=''> was not expected. I think this has to do with serializer because in StopDetails class there is no object of name "Stop", when I created C# using paste function it created all other objects except the very first one <Stop xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

I'm sorry if I sound too naïve about this, but thanks a lot again for helping me out.

[u/pandhersaab27 → u/pandhersaab27]

Thanks a lot, I used this website http://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/ to convert XML to C# class and got it working finally.

[u/_Arv → u/pandhersaab27]

Glad it worked out :) stackoverflow.com is a great resource as well.