Override custom object return type name in results

Question

Hopefully I can explain this well. I have a webservice that is accepting a complex data object (i.e. a class defined in C#) and is returning the same type of object. It returns just fine, but the name of the object type is overriden to be methodname Result. Is there a way to override this tag to be the name of the actual object type? Code and WSDL info follows. Thanks!

Object Code

public class Test_Object : ISerializable
    {
        private string myname;
        private int myid;

        public string My_Name
        {
            get { return myname; }
            set { myname = value; }
        }
        public int My_ID
        {
            get { return myid; }
            set { myid = value; }
        }

        public override int GetHashCode()
        {
            return myid.GetHashCode();
        }

        public Test_Object()
        {
            myname = "Dude";
            myid = 42;
        }
        public Test_Object(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctxt)
        {
        }
        
        //Serialization function.
        public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctxt)
        {
        }
    }

Web Method

[WebMethod]
        [TraceExtension]
        public Test_Object SetTestObject(Test_Object t)
        {
            if (t == null)
            {
                SoapException se = new SoapException("Messed up data", SoapException.ClientFaultCode, Context.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri);
                throw se;
            }
            else
                return t;
        }

WSDL

     <s:element name="SetTestObject">
        <s:complexType>
          <s:sequence>
            <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="t" type="tns:Test_Object" />
          </s:sequence>
        </s:complexType>
      </s:element>
      <s:complexType name="Test_Object">
        <s:sequence>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="My_Name" type="s:string" />

          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="My_ID" type="s:int" />
        </s:sequence>
      </s:complexType>
      <s:element name="SetTestObjectResponse">
        <s:complexType>
          <s:sequence>
            <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="SetTestObjectResult" type="tns:Test_Object" />
          </s:sequence>
        </s:complexType>
      </s:element>

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Answer 1

Please say what you're trying to accomplish. Why do you care what name is in the XML?

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Answer 2

Thanks for posting back John,
I'm just being picky about wanting to have the root element of the response have the name of the object instead of the name of the method with Result appended.

I.e. I'm getting this:

<SetTestObjectResponse xmlns="http://beta.com/api/">
   <SetTestObjectResult>
     <My_Name>string</My_Name>
     <My_ID>int</My_ID>
   </SetTestObjectResult>
</SetTestObjectResponse>

When I really want this:

<SetTestObjectResponse xmlns="http://beta.com/api/">
   <Test_Object>
     <My_Name>string</My_Name>
     <My_ID>int</My_ID>
   </Test_Object>
</SetTestObjectResponse>

Answer 3

try:
[WebMethod]
[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("SetTestObject",
Use = System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal,
ParameterStyle = System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]
[return: XmlElement(ElementName="Test_Object")]
public Test_Object SetTestObject(Test_Object t)
{...}