I'm trying to call an external RESTful API in my application and I've been using restsharp for it which has been great so far so but I think I've ran into a problem.
I'm calling an API which normally returns XML documents like this:
<res>
<resultCode>100</resultCode>
<resultText>OK</resultText>
<messageId>52788198</messageId>
<sessionId>TEST</sessionId>
<operatorCode>22802</operatorCode>
</res>
This is my code:
internal class SubmitMessageResponse
{
public ResultCode resultCode { get; set; }
public string resultText { get; set; }
public string messageId; { get; set; }
public string sessionId; { get; set; }
public string operatorCode; { get; set; }
}
public SubmitMessageResponse SendWelcomeSMS(string subscriptionId, string msisdn)
{
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddQueryParameter("command", "submitMessage")
.AddQueryParameter("username", _Config.User)
.AddQueryParameter("password", _Config.Password)
.AddQueryParameter("msisdn", "00" + _Club.CountryCode + msisdn)
.AddQueryParameter("businessNumber", _Club.SubscribeShortCode)
.AddQueryParameter("content", _Club.WelcomeMessage)
.AddQueryParameter("price", "0")
.AddQueryParameter("sessionId", subscriptionId)
.AddQueryParameter("label", "W")
.AddQueryParameter("keyword", _Club.SubscribeKeyword)
.AddQueryParameter("operatorCode", "test");
return SendGetRequest<SubmitMessageResponse>(request);
}
private T SendGetRequest<T>(RestRequest request) where T : new()
{
try
{
var client = new RestClient(this._BaseUrl);
client.Timeout = 10000;
_Logger.DebugFormat("{0} Request: {1}", "submitMessage", client.BuildUri(request));
var data = client.Execute<T>(request);
_Logger.DebugFormat("{0} Response: {1}", "submitMessage", Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data.Content));
return data.Data;
} catch(Exception e)
{
_Logger.Error(e);
}
return default(T);
}
Where ResultCode
is an enumeration including all known values that this API returns:
internal enum ResultCode
{
Ok = 100,
AuthorizationInProgress = 150,
PaymentAuthInProcess = 150,
InvalidOperatorCode = 201,
...
}
The problem is that normally this would work correctly but I'm unable to deserialize the enum from the XML:
var response = apiHelper.SendWelcomeSMS(client.ExternalData, client.Number);
Logger.Debug(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(response));
My log:
{"messageId":"52788292","sessionId":"TEST","operatorCode":"22802","**resultCode**":0,"resultText":"OK"}
But I also log the response and it works fine:
submitMessage Response: "<res>\r\n\t<**resultCode**>**100**</**resultCode**>\r\n\t<resultText>OK</resultText>\r\n\t<messageId>52788292</messageId>\r\n\t<sessionId>TEST</sessionId>\r\n\t<operatorCode>22802</operatorCode>\r\n</res>\r\n"
Any advice is appreciated.