Exception when trying to serialize an object

Question

I have a problem serializing this object, I isolated the property that is causing the problem.

I'm trying to serialize this RetrieveDataResp class. it looks like the following

  [Serializable]
    [XmlRoot("retrieveDataResp")]
    public class RetrieveDataResp
    {
        //Other stuff

        [XmlElement("response")]
        public Response.Response XmlResponse { get; set; }
        
    }

Response class looks like the following

public class Response
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// This is a bool that will be set if something when wrong
        /// with the request
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("withError")]
        public bool WithError { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is a string that will save the exception message
        /// so the UI will be able to display the ex. message.
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("exceptionString")]
        public string ExceptionString { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is the response type
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("responseType")]
        public string ResponseType { get; set; }
    }

I would like the xml to look like this

<retrieveDataResp>

    <response>

        <withError>false</withError>

        <exceptionString />

        <responseType>Retrieve Data</responseType>

    </response>

</retrieveDataResp>

Thanks a lot guys

Answer 1

I also tried to add "[XmlRoot("response")] on top of the Response class (I don't think I need though, in fact i think that's even wrong), but that did not work either. I can't think of anything that it throwing the exception while serializing,

The exception is "There was an error reflecting type "...

Answer 2

I figured it out. The Response class needs to have an empty constructor!

Thanks anyways

Answer 3

Hi Raac130,

Glad to know your problem is solved. Thank you for sharing.

Have a nice day.

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