I receive from two different systems an xml which I have to deserialise with c#. Both xml should be the same but unfortunately they are slightly different and there is no way for me take influence on the systems how they create the xml.
xml1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<alarm>
<alarmDetails>
<dateTime>20180906-121451</dateTime>
</alarmDetails>
<deviceDetails>
<deviceType>abacaxi</deviceType>
</deviceDetails>
<position>
<altitude>1000</altitude>
</position>
</alarm>
xml2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<alarm xmlns="http://alarm.com/xsd">
<alarmDetails>
<dateTime>20180906-114818</dateTime>
</alarmDetails>
<deviceDetails>
<deviceType>tapioca</deviceType>
</deviceDetails>
<position>
<altitude>1000</altitude>
</position>
</alarm>
(xml 2 has an additional attribut on the alarm-tag)
I tried to deserialize this with the following:
code
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Alarm));
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader("C:\\Temp\\xml1.xml");
Alarm alarmmessage = (Alarm)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
}
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "alarmDetails")]
public class AlarmDetails
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "dateTime")]
public string DateTime { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "deviceDetails")]
public class DeviceDetails
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "deviceType")]
public string DeviceType { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "position")]
public class Position
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "altitude")]
public string Altitude { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "alarm")]
public class Alarm
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "alarmDetails")]
public AlarmDetails AlarmDetails { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName = "deviceDetails")]
public DeviceDetails DeviceDetails { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName = "position")]
public Position Position { get; set; }
}
}
This works perfect for xml1 but for xml2 I get this Error:
Error
System.InvalidOperationException
Message=There is an error in XML document (2,2).
Inner Exception 1:
InvalidOperationException: <alarm xmlns='http://alarm.com/xsd'> was not expected.
Possible solution
All this did not work..
XmlRootAttribute
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I ended up with this modification:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlRootAttribute xRoot = new XmlRootAttribute();
xRoot.ElementName = "alarm";
xRoot.IsNullable = true;
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Alarm), xRoot);
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader("C:\\Temp\\xml2.xml");
Alarm alarmmessage = (Alarm)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
}
Get the same Error as mentioned above.
IsNullable=true to XmlRoot
From: {" was not expected.} Deserializing Twitter XML
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "alarm", IsNullable = true)]
public class Alarm
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "alarmDetails")]
public AlarmDetails AlarmDetails { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName = "deviceDetails")]
public DeviceDetails DeviceDetails { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName = "position")]
public Position Position { get; set; }
}
Same Error as mentioned above.
XmlAttributeOverrides
From: Ignore a property during xml serialization but not during deserialization
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlAttributeOverrides overrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
XmlAttributes attribs = new XmlAttributes();
attribs.XmlIgnore = true;
attribs.XmlElements.Add(new XmlElementAttribute("alarm"));
overrides.Add(typeof(Alarm), "alarm", attribs);
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Alarm), overrides);
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader("C:\\Temp\\xml2.xml");
Alarm alarmmessage = (Alarm)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
}
Still same Error as mentioned above.
Suggestion?
What else could I try to make this work? Is there some working way to ignore the xmlns-Attribut?