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convert from xml to list c# in .net core

C#:
XElement Xml = null;
var apiResponse = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
Xml = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<XElement>(apiResponse);
XML response from above code:
I'm having errors with Images xml part, while converting it to List,
I tried so many options, Please provide suggestion from below
<root>
<Column1>
<ID>2702</ID>
<Desc>Failed</Desc>
<Address>Florida</Address>
<Date>2019-04-30T23:10:36.79</Date>
<**Images**>
<Image>
<File>1-RRamos.PNG</File>
</Image>
<Image>
<File>RRamos.PNG</File>
</Image>
<Image>
<File>3-RRamos.PNG</File>
</Image>
</**Images**>
</Column1>
</root>
Trying to convert from xml to List from below
public class objClass
{
public string ID{ get; set; }
public string Desc{ get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public DateTime? Date{ get; set; }
//public string[] ImageFileNames { get; set; }
public List<Images> FileName { get; set; }
}
public class FileName
{
public string File{ get; set; }
}
List<objClass> list = Xml.Elements("ID").Select(sv => new objClass()
{
ID= (string)sv.Element("ID"),
Desc= (string)sv.Element("Desc"),
Address = (string)sv.Element("Address"),
Date= (DateTime?)sv.Element("Date"),
//**,Images = (List)sv.Element("Images")**
}).ToList();
From XML response, trying to convert it to List.

You can't use the Newtonsoft.Json library to deserialize from an XML.
Solution 1: Convert XML to list via XPath
Parse XML string to XDocument.
With XPath: "//root/Column1", select the <Column1> element.
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml.XPath;
var apiResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
XDocument #Xml = XDocument.Parse(apiResponse);
List<ObjClass> list = #Xml.XPathSelectElements("//root/Column1")
.Select(sv => new ObjClass()
{
ID = (string)sv.Element("ID"),
Desc = (string)sv.Element("Desc"),
Address = (string)sv.Element("Address"),
Date = (DateTime?)sv.Element("Date"),
Images = sv.Element("Images")
.Elements("Image")
.Select(x => new Image
{
File = (string)x.Element("File")
})
.ToList()
})
.ToList();
Solution 2: Deserialize XML
This answer will be a bit complex but work the same as Solution 1.
Write the apiResponse value into MemoryStream.
Deserialize the MemoryStream via XmlSerializer as Root.
Extract root.Column and add into list.
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "root")]
public class Root
{
[XmlElement("Column 1")]
public ObjClass Column { get; set; }
}
public class ObjClass
{
public string ID { get; set; }
public string Desc { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public DateTime? Date { get; set; }
[XmlArray]
[XmlArrayItem(typeof(Image), ElementName = "Image")]
public List<Image> Images { get; set; }
}
public class Image
{
public string File { get; set; }
}
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
var apiResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
using var stream = new MemoryStream();
using var writer = new StreamWriter(stream);
writer.Write(apiResponse);
writer.Flush();
stream.Position = 0;
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Root));
Root root = (Root)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(stream);
List<ObjClass> list = new List<ObjClass>();
list.Add(root.Column);
Concern:
Use await instead of Task<T>.Result as Task<T>.Result will block the calling thread until it (the task) is completed. With await, the task is waited to be completed asynchronously. Reference: What is the difference between await Task and Task.Result?

public class objClass
{
public string ID { get; set; }
public string Desc { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public DateTime? Date { get; set; }
public string[] ImageFileNames { get; set; }
}
var list = Xml.Elements("root").Elements("Column1")
.Select(sv => new objClass()
{
ID = (string)sv.Element("ID"),
Desc = (string)sv.Element("Desc"),
Address = (string)sv.Element("Address"),
Date = (DateTime?)sv.Element("Date"),
ImageFileNames = sv.Element("Images")
.Elements("Image")
.Select(i => (string)i.Element("File"))
.ToArray(),
})
.ToList();

C# Code that Parses the Response from Restful Webservice

I have a webservice that reads the response. It can't parse the response data, because the emsg is null.
Below is the restful webservice, connected to it, and the data returned.
if (response.Body != null && response.Body != "null")
{
var xDocument = XDocument.Parse(response.Body);
var emsg = xDocument.Element("T_OUTPUT").LastNode;
if (emsg != null)
{
var parsedData =
(
from e in xDocument.Element("items").Descendants()
select new ProductPipelineTankInventoryEntity
{
BUKRS = (long)e.Element("BUKRS"),
WERKS = (long)e.Element("WERKS"),
NAME1 = e.Element("NAME1").ToString(),
REGIO = e.Element("REGIO").ToString(),
MATKL = e.Element("MATKL").ToString(),
MATNR = (long)e.Element("MATNR"),
LGORT = e.Element("LGORT").ToString(),
GRDIP = (double)e.Element("GRDIP"),
TRNDATE = DateTime.Parse(e.Element("TRNDATE").ToString()),
VOL_NATURAL = (double)e.Element("VOL_NATURAL"),
GRDIP_RUN = (double)e.Element("GRDIP_RUN"),
VOL_RUNNING = (double)e.Element("VOL_RUNNING")
}
).ToList();
ret.AddRange(parsedData);
}
}
<ns0:YV_PIPELINE_PLANT_DIP_DETAILS.Response xmlns:ns0="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions">
<E_MSG/>
<T_OUTPUT>
<item>
<BUKRS>2200</BUKRS>
<WERKS>2222</WERKS>
<NAME1>IOCL,JHARSUGUDA TERMINAL</NAME1>
<REGIO>OR</REGIO>
<MATKL>BULK-MS</MATKL>
<MATNR>16400</MATNR>
<LGORT>T005</LGORT>
<GRDIP>1005.5</GRDIP>
<TRNDATE>2019-08-05</TRNDATE>
<VOL_NATURAL>2048.080</VOL_NATURAL>
<GRDIP_RUN>0825.5</GRDIP_RUN>
<VOL_RUNNING>1686.155</VOL_RUNNING>
</item>
<item>
<BUKRS>2200</BUKRS>
<WERKS>2222</WERKS>
<NAME1>IOCL,JHARSUGUDA TERMINAL</NAME1>
<REGIO>OR</REGIO>
<MATKL>BULK-MS</MATKL>
<MATNR>16400</MATNR>
<LGORT>T006</LGORT>
<GRDIP>173.9</GRDIP>
<TRNDATE>2019-08-05</TRNDATE>
<VOL_NATURAL>776.741</VOL_NATURAL>
<GRDIP_RUN>0915.9</GRDIP_RUN>
<VOL_RUNNING>4130.508</VOL_RUNNING>
</item>
</T_OUTPUT>
</ns0:YV_PIPELINE_PLANT_DIP_DETAILS.Response>
The above code I tried. Below part is of the response output.

You need to have namespaces and change from "items" to "item". For test I read xml from a file instead of a response.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Globalization;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
const string FILENAME = #"c:\temp\test.xml";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string xmlResponse = File.ReadAllText(FILENAME);
XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Parse(xmlResponse);
XElement emsg = xDocument.Descendants().Where(x => x.Name.LocalName == "T_OUTPUT").FirstOrDefault();
XNamespace ns = emsg.GetDefaultNamespace();
if (emsg != null)
{
var parsedData =
(
from e in xDocument.Descendants(ns + "item")
select new ProductPipelineTankInventoryEntity
{
BUKRS = (long)e.Element(ns + "BUKRS"),
WERKS = (long)e.Element(ns + "WERKS"),
NAME1 = (string)e.Element(ns + "NAME1"),
REGIO = (string)e.Element(ns + "REGIO"),
MATKL = (string)e.Element(ns + "MATKL"),
MATNR = (long)e.Element(ns + "MATNR"),
LGORT = (string)e.Element(ns + "LGORT"),
GRDIP = (double)e.Element(ns + "GRDIP"),
TRNDATE = (DateTime)e.Element(ns + "TRNDATE"),
VOL_NATURAL = (double)e.Element(ns + "VOL_NATURAL"),
GRDIP_RUN = (double)e.Element(ns + "GRDIP_RUN"),
VOL_RUNNING = (double)e.Element(ns + "VOL_RUNNING")
}
).ToList();
}
}
}
public class ProductPipelineTankInventoryEntity
{
public long BUKRS { get; set; }
public long WERKS { get; set; }
public string NAME1 { get; set; }
public string REGIO { get; set; }
public string MATKL { get; set; }
public long MATNR { get; set; }
public string LGORT { get; set; }
public double GRDIP { get; set; }
public DateTime TRNDATE { get; set; }
public double VOL_NATURAL { get; set; }
public double GRDIP_RUN { get; set; }
public double VOL_RUNNING { get; set; }
}
}

Selecting XmlNode's Child Nodes based on Tag

I'm trying to parse this XML Document:
<MPD>
<Period duration="PT0H3M1.63S" start="PT0S">
<AdaptationSet>
<ContentComponent contentType="video" id="1" />
<Representation bandwidth="4190760" codecs="avc1.640028" height="1080" id="1" mimeType="video/mp4" width="1920">
<BaseURL>car-20120827-89.mp4</BaseURL>
</Representation>
<Representation bandwidth="2073921" codecs="avc1.4d401f" height="720" id="2" mimeType="video/mp4" width="1280">
<BaseURL>car-20120827-88.mp4</BaseURL>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
<AdaptationSet>
<ContentComponent contentType="audio" id="2" />
<Representation bandwidth="127236" codecs="mp4a.40.2" id="6" mimeType="audio/mp4" numChannels="2" sampleRate="44100">
<BaseURL>car-20120827-8c.mp4</BaseURL>
</Representation>
<Representation bandwidth="255236" codecs="mp4a.40.2" id="7" mimeType="audio/mp4" numChannels="2" sampleRate="44100">
<BaseURL>car-20120827-8d.mp4</BaseURL>
</Representation>
</AdaptationSet>
</Period>
</MPD>
using this C# code:
var rootDoc = new XmlDocument();
rootDoc.LoadXml(xmlString); // the one from above
var adaptationSets = rootDoc.GetElementsByTagName("AdaptationSet");
if (adaptationSets.Count > 0)
foreach (XmlNode adaptionSet in adaptationSets) // Loop through AdaptionSets
{
// Get the one Node in this AdaptionSet with the ContentComponent-Tag
var contentComponent = adaptionSet.SelectSingleNode("ContentComponent");
if (contentComponent != null)
{
// parse attributes
}
// Get All Nodes in this AdaptionSet with the Representation-Tag
var representations = adaptionSet.SelectNodes("Representation");
if(representations?.Count > 0)
foreach (XmlNode representation in representations)
{
// parse attributes of XmlNode
}
}
It all works except for the XPath queries. I tried a lot of variations with leading "/", "//", "./" and without any leading characters, but it just won't work. What am I doing wrong? I'm not using XPath on a regular basis and I couldn't find anything more than the leading characters I mentioned. Because I've seen it on a lot of other answers on this website I feel like I should mention that I'm explicitly looking for the XPath that will help me solve this, not some Linq variation or an entirely different approach.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I think this solves your problem:
var rootDoc = new XmlDocument();
rootDoc.LoadXml(xmlString); // the one from above
var adaptationSets = rootDoc.SelectNodes("//AdaptationSet");
if (adaptationSets.Count > 0)
foreach (XmlNode adaptionSet in adaptationSets) // Loop through AdaptionSets
{
// Get the one Node in this AdaptionSet with the ContentComponent-Tag
var contentComponent = adaptionSet.SelectSingleNode("./ContentComponent");
if (contentComponent != null)
{
// parse attributes
}
// Get All Nodes in this AdaptionSet with the Representation-Tag
var representations = adaptionSet.SelectNodes("./Representation");
if (representations?.Count > 0)
foreach (XmlNode representation in representations)
{
// parse attributes of XmlNode
}
}

Try using xml linq :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
const string FILENAME = #"c:\temp\test.xml";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(FILENAME);
XElement period = doc.Descendants("Period").FirstOrDefault();
MPD mpd = new MPD();
mpd.duration = (string)period.Attribute("duration");
mpd.start = (string)period.Attribute("start");
mpd.adaptions = period.Elements("AdaptationSet").Select(x => new Adaption() {
contentType = (string)x.Element("ContentComponent").Attribute("contentType"),
id = (int)x.Element("ContentComponent").Attribute("id"),
representations = x.Elements("Representation").Select(y => new Representation() {
bandwidth = (int)y.Attribute("bandwidth"),
codecs = (string)y.Attribute("codecs"),
height = (int?)y.Attribute("height"),
id = (int)y.Attribute("id"),
mimeType = (string)y.Attribute("mimeType"),
width = (int?)y.Attribute("width"),
baseURL = (string)y.Descendants("BaseURL").FirstOrDefault()
}).ToList()
}).ToList();
}
}
public class MPD
{
public string duration { get; set; }
public string start { get; set; }
public List<Adaption> adaptions { get; set; }
}
public class Adaption
{
public string contentType { get; set; }
public int id { get; set; }
public List<Representation> representations { get; set; }
}
public class Representation
{
public int bandwidth { get; set; }
public string codecs { get; set; }
public int? height { get; set; }
public int id { get; set; }
public string mimeType { get; set; }
public int? width { get; set; }
public string baseURL { get; set; }
}
}

C# Object Serialization to XML namespace and prefix in child element only

How to get a namespace set at a child level element when serializing an object to XML with C#?
The XML I want to end up with this as the XML output:
<clsPerson>
<FirstName>Jeff</FirstName>
<MI>J</MI>
<LastName>Jefferson</LastName>
<ns1:Addresses xmlns="www.whatever.co.uk">
<Home>Here</Home>
<Work>There</Work>
</Addresses>
</clsPerson>
The code I'm using is mostly taken from other questions, and is as follows:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
public class clsPerson
{
public string FirstName;
public string MI;
public string LastName;
[XmlElement(Namespace = "www.whatever.co.uk")]
public clsPlaces Addresses;
public clsPerson()
{
clsPlaces clsPlaces = new clsPlaces();
}
}
[XmlRoot(Namespace = "")]
public class clsPlaces
{
public string Home { get; set; }
public string Work { get; set; }
}
class class1
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
clsPerson p = new clsPerson();
var xml = "";
p.FirstName = "Jeff";
p.MI = "J";
p.LastName = "Jefefrson";
p.Addresses = new clsPlaces();
p.Addresses.Home = "Here";
p.Addresses.Work = "There";
var emptyNamepsaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { XmlQualifiedName.Empty });
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(p.GetType());
var settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
emptyNamepsaces.Add("ns", "www.whatever.co.uk");
using (var stream = new StringWriter())
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings))
{
serializer.Serialize(writer, p, emptyNamepsaces);
xml = stream.ToString();
}
Console.WriteLine(xml)
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
The above gives:
<clsPerson xmlns:ns="www.whatever.co.uk">
<FirstName>Jeff</FirstName>
<MI>J</MI>
<LastName>Jefefrson</LastName>
<ns:Addresses>
<Home>Here</Home>
<Work>There</Work>
</ns:Addresses>
How would I get the xmlns on the element only? I have tried everything I can see search stackoverflow, and not been able to find/understand the answer.
Thanks

Remove this - adding the namespace will ensure the prefix gets added to the root:
emptyNamepsaces.Add("ns", "www.whatever.co.uk");
The declaration for addresses will get added automatically. You also need to remove the empty namespace from clsPlaces, else the namspaces for Home and Work will be incorrect:
public class clsPlaces
{
public string Home { get; set; }
public string Work { get; set; }
}
The output will then look like this:
<clsPerson>
<FirstName>Jeff</FirstName>
<MI>J</MI>
<LastName>Jefefrson</LastName>
<Addresses xmlns="www.whatever.co.uk">
<Home>Here</Home>
<Work>There</Work>
</Addresses>
</clsPerson>
See this fiddle for a demo.

XPath matches for a XML serialized DataContract class

I have a DataContract class MyDataContract. I am serializing it to a XML file. Later, at a totally different "place" in my application I am loading this file. There I want to verify to load only, if the content of the file matches special conditions. Let's say I store a person and the association to the person's vehicle assuming a person can own just one vehicle. :-)
Here the DataContract classes:
namespace Test.DataContracts
{
[DataContract]
public class MyDataContract
{
[DataMember]
public string Identifier { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public Common.Person Person { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public Common.Vehicle Vehicle { get; set; }
}
}
namespace Test.DataContracts.Common
{
[DataContract]
public class Person
{
[DataMember]
public Global.Gender Gender { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Info { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
public class Vehicle
{
[DataMember]
public string Info { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Vendor { get; set; }
}
}
namespace Test.DataContracts.Global
{
[DataContract]
public class Gender
{
[DataMember]
public int Type { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
}
Results in the following serialized XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MyDataContract xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Identifier>123456789</Identifier>
<Person xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Common">
<a:Gender xmlns:b="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Global">
<b:Name>Female</b:Name>
<b:Type>0</b:Type>
</a:Gender>
<a:Info>She is a beautiful lady.</a:Info>
<a:Name>Jane Doe</a:Name>
</Person>
<Vehicle xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Common">
<a:Info>A super great car.</a:Info>
<a:Name>Mustang 1983 Turbo GT</a:Name>
<a:Vendor>Ford</a:Vendor>
</Vehicle>
</MyDataContract>
Now I want to filter out only Female (Type = 0) persons that own any Ford (Vendor = Ford) vehicle. I tried the following, but it always results in false for the matches.
string path = #"c:\janedoe.xml";
var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(path);
XmlNodeList xNodes = xmlDoc.SelectNodes(#"//namespace::*[not(. = ../../namespace::*)]");
var xNamespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
foreach (XmlNode node in xNodes)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(xNamespaceManager.LookupNamespace(node.LocalName))) continue;
xNamespaceManager.AddNamespace(node.LocalName, node.Value);
}
using (var fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
var xDocument = new XPathDocument(fs);
var xNavigator = xDocument.CreateNavigator();
XPathExpression exp1 = xNavigator.Compile(string.Format("MyDataContract/Person/Gender/Type/descendant::*[contains(text(), '{0}')]", "0"));
exp1.SetContext(xNamespaceManager);
XPathExpression exp2 = xNavigator.Compile(string.Format("MyDataContract/Vehicle/Vendor/descendant::*[contains(text(), '{0}')]", "Ford"));
exp2.SetContext(xNamespaceManager);
if (xNavigator.Matches(exp1) && xNavigator.Matches(exp2))
{
Console.WriteLine("File '{0}' indicates a female person that owns a vehicle of Ford.", path);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("File '{0}' has no matches (female and Ford).", path);
}
}
Can anyone help?
UPDATE 1 - I have changed the code using XmlNamespaceManager. But still results in false when executing xNavigator.Matches(exp1).

If you have XDocument it is easier to use LINQ-to-XML:
var xdoc = XDocument.Load(memorystream);
// Making it simple, grab the first
var type = xdoc.Descendants(XName.Get("Type","http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Global")).FirstOrDefault();
var vendor = xdoc.Descendants(XName.Get("Vendor", "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Common")).FirstOrDefault();
string path = "blah";
if (type != null && type.Value == "0" && vendor != null && vendor.Value == "Ford")
{
Console.WriteLine("File '{0}' indicates a female person that owns a vehicle of Ford.", path);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("File '{0}' has no matches (female and Ford).", path);
}
If you are sure that XPath is the only solution you need:
using System.Xml.XPath;
var document = XDocument.Load(fileName);
var namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("a", "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Test.DataContracts.Global");
var name = document.XPathSelectElement("path", namespaceManager).Value;