when using C# null content from any array. WSDL trouble ?

[ctmidi]

i think that WSDL generation may be broken, or at least incompatible with C# implementation of it as when trying to consume SOAP 1.1 from C#, any array will have null value even if Ladon will actually send some XML data.

i have seen another bug reported here telling that WSDL Array are broken, BTW the provided patch do not help, i think this is still broken and may be inner elements should be contained inside specific node rather than in "item" ?

here is how to reproduce this from the AlbumService example provided :

1/ from any Visual Studio project, as Console Application, first create a Service Web reference like explained here : http://webservices20.blogspot.fr/2008/10/interoperability-gotcha-visual-studio.html for this example called 'albumsWR'

2/ code for the C# apps

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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using ConsoleApplication6.albumsWR; // PUT HERE THE NAME OF THE
// ... "Web eferences" you provide @ step 1

namespace ConsoleApplication6
{

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            AlbumService albumService = new AlbumService();
            var filteredAlbums = albumService.listAlbums("The");
            if (filteredAlbums.item == null)
            {
              Console.WriteLine("null contained, while it should not!");
            }
        }
    }
}

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when checking the result with SOAP UI, of course an XML result is provided, if we intercept the data sent with Fiddler to the C# program here is what is provided so one can check that is not a 'null' answer, BTW may be some inconsistencies occurs between the WSDL definition and/or namespace and the result provided, that prevent C# to understand how to unserialize the result ?

here is a cut n paste of this interception with Fiddler (that is the raw Ladon answer to the C# call)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns="urn:AlbumService" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      <ns:listAlbumsResponse>
     <result>
        <item>
           <band>
          <album-titles>
             <item>Album Of The Year</item>
             <item>KING FOR A DAY - FOOL FOR A LIFETIME</item>
          </album-titles>
          <name>Faith No More</name>
           </band>
           <title>Album Of The Year</title>
           <songs>
          <item>Ashes To Ashes.mp3</item>
          <item>Mouth To Mouth.mp3</item>
          <item>Last Cup Of Sorrow [Sharam Versus Fnm Club Mix] [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
          <item>Paths Of Glory.mp3</item>
          <item>Pristina.mp3</item>
          <item>Light Up And Let Go [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
          <item>Helpless.mp3</item>
          <item>The Big Kahuna [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
          <item>She Loves Me Not.mp3</item>
          <item>Stripsearch.mp3</item>
          <item>Last Cup Of Sorrow.mp3</item>
          <item>Collision.mp3</item>
          <item>Home Sick Home.mp3</item>
          <item>She Loves Me Not [Spinna Crazy Dub Mix] [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
          <item>Last Cup Of Sorrow [Rammstein Mix] [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
          <item>Naked In Front of The Computer.mp3</item>
          <item>Got That Feeling.mp3</item>
          <item>Ashes To Ashes [Hardknox Alternative Mix] [Bonus Track].mp3</item>
           </songs>
        </item>
        <item>
           <band>
          <album-titles>
             <item>Paint The Sky With Stars - The Best Of Enya</item>
          </album-titles>
          <name>Enya</name>
           </band>
           <title>Paint The Sky With Stars - The Best Of Enya</title>
           <songs>
          <item>Watermark.mp3</item>
          <item>Boadicea.mp3</item>
          <item>Storms In Africa.mp3</item>
          <item>Book Of Days.mp3</item>
          <item>Caribben Blue.mp3</item>
          <item>The Celts.mp3</item>
          <item>Anywhere Is.mp3</item>
          <item>Shepherd Moons.mp3</item>
          <item>China Roses.mp3</item>
          <item>Marble Halls.mp3</item>
          <item>On My Way Home.mp3</item>
          <item>Ebudae.mp3</item>
          <item>The Memory Of Trees.mp3</item>
          <item>Paint The Sky With Stars.mp3</item>
          <item>Only If....mp3</item>
          <item>Orinoco Flow.mp3</item>
           </songs>
        </item>
        <item>
           <band>
          <album-titles>
             <item>Zitilites</item>
             <item>No Balance Palace</item>
             <item>Home Dead</item>
             <item>Travelogue</item>
             <item>Cruzential</item>
             <item>The Good Life</item>
          </album-titles>
          <name>Kashmir</name>
           </band>
           <title>The Good Life</title>
           <songs>
          <item>Gorgeous.mp3</item>
          <item>New Year's Eve.mp3</item>
          <item>Lampshade.mp3</item>
          <item>It's OK Now.mp3</item>
          <item>Graceland.mp3</item>
          <item>Miss You.mp3</item>
          <item>Mudbath.mp3</item>
          <item>Mom In Love, Daddy In Space.mp3</item>
          <item>Kiss Me Goodbye.mp3</item>
          <item>Make It Grand.mp3</item>
           </songs>
        </item>
        <item>
           <band>
          <album-titles>
             <item>The Wall CD2</item>
             <item>The Wall Part I</item>
          </album-titles>
          <name>Pink Floyd</name>
           </band>
           <title>The Wall CD2</title>
           <songs>
          <item>Nobody Home.mp3</item>
          <item>Waiting For The Worms.mp3</item>
          <item>Bring The Boys Back Home.mp3</item>
          <item>The Trial.mp3</item>
          <item>Is There Anybody Out There?.mp3</item>
          <item>Comfortably Numb.mp3</item>
          <item>Run Like Hell.mp3</item>
          <item>The Show Must Go On.mp3</item>
          <item>Vera.mp3</item>
          <item>In The Flesh.mp3</item>
          <item>Outside The Wall.mp3</item>
          <item>Hey You.mp3</item>
          <item>Stop.mp3</item>
           </songs>
        </item>
        <item>
           <band>
          <album-titles>
             <item>The Wall CD2</item>
             <item>The Wall Part I</item>
          </album-titles>
          <name>Pink Floyd</name>
           </band>
           <title>The Wall Part I</title>
           <songs>
          <item>The Happiest Days Of Our Lives.mp3</item>
          <item>Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1).mp3</item>
          <item>Goodbye Cruel World.mp3</item>
          <item>One Of The Turns.mp3</item>
          <item>In The Flesh?.mp3</item>
          <item>Empty Spaces.mp3</item>
          <item>The Thin Ice.mp3</item>
          <item>Goodbye Blue Sky.mp3</item>
          <item>Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2).mp3</item>
          <item>Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3).mp3</item>
          <item>Young Lust.mp3</item>
          <item>Mother.mp3</item>
          <item>Don't Leave Now.mp3</item>
           </songs>
        </item>
     </result>
      </ns:listAlbumsResponse>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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[jsgaarde (jakob-simon-gaarde)]

Seems like you double bugged this one, I will mark this one as dublet