Deserialization using restsharp - I tried the documentation but it did not work

Question

I am trying to deserialize this to an c# object using restsharp

Before marking as a duplicate question note that I have looked at the following stack overflow questions and it has not worked

• How to XmlDeserialize using RestSharp?
• RestSharp XML Deserialization into List

The response:

<response>
    <TAG>
         <tagid>1</tagid>
         <mac>00:12:8E:12:2F:34</mac>
    </TAG>
    <TAG>
         <tagid>2</tagid>
         <mac>00:11:8E:12:3F:11</mac>
    </TAG>
</response>

My Class that I hoped to use but is only it states count =0...

public class Response
{
    public Response()
    {
        this.Tag = new List<Tag>();
    }
    [XmlElement()]
    public List<Tag> Tag { get; set; } 
}

public class Tag
{
    public string Tagid { get; set; }
    public string Mac { get; set; }
}

The code that tries to deserialize

var request = new RestRequest
              {
                  Resource = "api/notimportant",
                  RequestFormat = DataFormat.Xml,
                  Method = Method.GET,
              };
request.AddParameter("fields", "all");

var client = new RestClient
             {
                 BaseUrl = new Uri(_url),
             }; 
client.AddHandler("application/xml", new DotNetXmlDeserializer());

var response = client.Execute<Response>(request);

My many test

If I used response I get nothing but when I used tag I get only the first element instead of list which I what I want...

Answer 1

It seems to be partially case sensitive. The <TAG> element being all caps is throwing it off. I finally got it to work when I changed the classes to this:

public class Response
{
    public Response()
    {
        this.Tags = new List<TAG>();
    }
    public List<TAG> Tags { get; set; }
}

public class TAG
{
    public string Tagid { get; set; }
    public string Mac { get; set; }
}

Without the actual rest API to call, here's what I did to test it:

var d = new XmlDeserializer();
var response = new RestSharp.RestResponse();
response.Content = @"<response>
<TAG>
     <tagid>1</tagid>
     <mac>00:12:8E:12:2F:34</mac>
</TAG>
<TAG>
     <tagid>2</tagid>
     <mac>00:11:8E:12:3F:11</mac>
</TAG>
</response>";
var result = d.Deserialize<Response>(response);