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create xml from object without setting values in it c#

I want to convert a c# class to an xml file without declaring default values in it. If I declare values on every propery in the class I got it to work and the XML has all the properties in it. The primarydata is my class with properties in it.
var pD = new PrimaryData();
XmlSerializer serializerPrimaryData = new XmlSerializer(typeof(PrimaryData));
serializerPrimaryData.Serialize(File.Create(xmlLocation), pD,ns);
But I dont want to declare any values.
If i run this code I get just:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PrimaryData />
I don't get the properties in the class as you can see. So how can I get the properties in the class without declaring them to a default value?
Any suggestions?
I have followed this guide: https://codehandbook.org/c-object-xml/
But he is declaring default values to his class.
public class PrimaryData
{
public PrimaryData();
public string BatchId { get; set; }
public CurrentOperation CurrentOperation { get; set; }
public Heat Heat { get; set; }
public string MaterialId { get; set; }
public List<Operation> Operations { get; set; }
public OrderInfo OrderInfo { get; set; }
public Plate Plate { get; set; }
}

Just set default values.
public class Employee
{
public string FirstName { get; set; } = "";
public string LastName { get; set; } = "";
}
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var employee = new Employee();
var sw = new StringWriter();
var se = new XmlSerializer(employee.GetType());
var tw = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
se.Serialize(tw, employee);
Console.WriteLine(sw.ToString());
Console.Read();
}
Result
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Employee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<FirstName />
<LastName />
</Employee>
Second solution is to set XmlElement(IsNullable = true)
public class Employee
{
[XmlElement(IsNullable = true)]
public string FirstName { get; set; }
[XmlElement(IsNullable = true)]
public string LastName { get; set; }
}

I have no clue what you are trying to do ...
XML serialization just makes a mirror of the object in different structure (aka XML - object will be represented by structured text).
If your class has no properties, nothing will be serialized to XML but only the base empty object.
My suggestion is to make a class with Dictionary<string, object> as property. Then you will be able to write into the Dictionary and serialize it.
But, it has some drawbacks. XML Serialization (if I remember correctly) does not support Dictionaries, so I would go with DataContract instead.
That might work :)
[DataContract]
public class PrimaryData
{
[DataMember(Name = "Data", Order = 0, IsRequired = true)]
public Dictionary<string, object> Data { get; set; }
}

You should add this annotation to your properties:
[XmlElement(IsNullable = true)]
public string Prop { get; set; }
The result in your xml should be something like this:
<Prop xsi:nil="true" />

XML Deserialization results in empty object

I'm attempting to deserialize this XML file into an object
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rules version="3">
<emie>
<domain>msdn.microsoft.com</domain>
<domain exclude="false">
bing.com
<path exclude="true">images</path>
</domain>
<domain exclude="true">
news.msn.com
<path exclude="false">pop-culture</path>
</domain>
<domain>timecard</domain>
<domain>tar</domain>
</emie>
</rules>
I have my objects laid out like so
[XmlRoot("rules")]
public class Rules {
[XmlAttribute("version")]
public string Version { get; set; }
[XmlElement("emie")]
public EMIE EMIE { get; set; }
}
public class EMIE {
[XmlArrayItem("Domain")]
public List<Domain> Domains { get; set; }
}
public class Domain {
[XmlAttribute("exclude")]
public bool Exclude { get; set; }
[XmlText]
public string Value { get; set; }
[XmlArrayItem("Path")]
public List<Path> Paths { get; set; }
}
public class Path {
[XmlAttribute]
public bool Exclude { get; set; }
[XmlText]
public string Value { get; set; }
}
And am using this code to deserialize it
static void Main(string[] args) {
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Rules));
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream("EM.xml", FileMode.Open)) {
Rules xml = (Rules)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
foreach (Domain d in xml.EMIE.Domains) {
Console.WriteLine(d.Value);
foreach (EnterpriseModeModel.Path p in d.Paths) {
Console.WriteLine(p.Value);
}
}
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
However, my rules.EMIE.Domains object is always empty. When I debug I can see my stream object has a length so it's properly picking up the data in the file but it never fills up the object like I expect it to.

Change the declaration of EMIE as follows
public class EMIE
{
[XmlElement("domain")]
public List<Domain> Domains { get; set; }
}

XML parsing using attributes

I have XML-based config for application shortcuts bindings. i need to parse it.
<ShortcutBinding>
<ShortcutHandler Name ="Retail.Application.Documents.Outcome.Presentation.OutcomePresenter">
<Shortcut Name="EditHeader">
<Key>CTRL</Key>
<Key>F4</Key>
</Shortcut>
<Shortcut Name="EditItem">
<Key>F4</Key>
</Shortcut>
</ShortcutHandler>
</ShortcutBinding>
I know that .Net has attributes for deserializing XML into objects.
Can anyone write complete example for such deserialization, using attributes.

public class ShortcutBinding
{
public ShortcutHandler ShortcutHandler { get; set; }
}
public class ShortcutHandler
{
[XmlAttribute]
public string Name { get; set; }
[XmlElement("Shortcut")]
public List<Shortcut> Shortcuts { get; set; }
}
public class Shortcut
{
[XmlAttribute]
public string Name { get; set; }
[XmlElement("Key")]
public List<string> Keys { get; set; }
}
Deserializing:
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ShortcutBinding));
var binding = (ShortcutBinding)serializer.Deserialize(XmlReader.Create(path));

Deserialize XML with multiple namespaces to objects

I´m trying to deserialize this XML to objects in C# .NET 4.5:
<DIDL-Lite xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:upnp="urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/upnp/"
xmlns="urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/">
<item id="28" parentID="19" restricted="1">
<dc:creator>Alicia Keys</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2003-01-01</dc:date>
<dc:title>Gangsta Lovin&apos; (feat. Alicia Keys)</dc:title>
</item>
</DIDL-Lite>
Code:
I´m not getting any "item" Lists. The object isn't deserialized.
MemoryStream reader = new MemmoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(Result));
var ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(DIDLLite));
DIDLLite device = (DIDLLite)ser.Deserialize(reader);
Class DIDLLite:
[XmlRoot("DIDL-Lite", Namespace = "urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/")]
public class DIDLLite {
DIDLLite() {
this.serviceItem = new List<ContainerItem>();
}
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlArrayItem("item", typeof(ServiceListTypeService), IsNullable = false)]
List<ContainerItem> serviceItem = new List<ContainerItem>();
}
Class ContainerItem:
public class ContainerItem
{
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttribute("id")]
public string id { get; set; }
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttribute("parentID")]
public string parentID { get; set; }
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttribute("restricted")]
public string restricted { get; set; }
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttribute("searchable")]
public string searchable { get; set; }
public string title { get; set; }
}

You have several issues:
you define an XmlArrayItem attribute - but really, in your XML, you don't have any list of items. If you want to use an Xml array construct, you'd need to have something like this for your XML:
<DIDL-Lite .....>
<Items>
<item id="28" parentID="19" restricted="1">
......
</item>
<item id="29" parentID="19" restricted="1">
......
</item>
</Items>
</DIDL-Lite>
So you would need to have an <Items>...</Items> wrapper around your <item> elements.
You have this declaration:
[XmlArrayItem("item", typeof(ServiceListTypeService), IsNullable = false)]
but where is the ServiceListtypeService defined? I don't see any trace of it....
I simplified your code a bit - and this works just fine:
[XmlRoot("DIDL-Lite", Namespace = "urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/")]
public class DIDLLite
{
[XmlElement("item")]
public ContainerItem Item { get; set; }
}
public class ContainerItem
{
[XmlAttribute("id")]
public string id { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute("parentID")]
public string parentID { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute("restricted")]
public string restricted { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute("searchable")]
public string searchable { get; set; }
// you were missing these elements and their namespace
[XmlElement(Namespace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/")]
public string creator { get; set; }
[XmlElement(Namespace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/")]
public string date { get; set; }
[XmlElement(Namespace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/")]
public string title { get; set; }
}
And now, when I run your code to deserialize your XML, I do get the objects filled nicely.

Serialize Property as Xml Attribute in Element

I have the following class:
[Serializable]
public class SomeModel
{
[XmlElement("SomeStringElementName")]
public string SomeString { get; set; }
[XmlElement("SomeInfoElementName")]
public int SomeInfo { get; set; }
}
Which (when populated with some test data) and Serialized using XmlSerializer.Serialize() results in the following XML:
<SomeModel>
<SomeStringElementName>testData</SomeStringElementName>
<SomeInfoElementName>5</SomeInfoElementName>
</SomeModel>
What I need to have is:
<SomeModel>
<SomeStringElementName Value="testData" />
<SomeInfoElementName Value="5" />
</SomeModel>
Is there a way to specify this as attributes without writing my own custom serialization code?

You will need wrapper classes:
public class SomeIntInfo
{
[XmlAttribute]
public int Value { get; set; }
}
public class SomeStringInfo
{
[XmlAttribute]
public string Value { get; set; }
}
public class SomeModel
{
[XmlElement("SomeStringElementName")]
public SomeStringInfo SomeString { get; set; }
[XmlElement("SomeInfoElementName")]
public SomeIntInfo SomeInfo { get; set; }
}
or a more generic approach if you prefer:
public class SomeInfo<T>
{
[XmlAttribute]
public T Value { get; set; }
}
public class SomeModel
{
[XmlElement("SomeStringElementName")]
public SomeInfo<string> SomeString { get; set; }
[XmlElement("SomeInfoElementName")]
public SomeInfo<int> SomeInfo { get; set; }
}
And then:
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
var model = new SomeModel
{
SomeString = new SomeInfo<string> { Value = "testData" },
SomeInfo = new SomeInfo<int> { Value = 5 }
};
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(model.GetType());
serializer.Serialize(Console.Out, model);
}
}
will produce:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ibm850"?>
<SomeModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SomeStringElementName Value="testData" />
<SomeInfoElementName Value="5" />
</SomeModel>

Kind of, use the XmlAttribute instead of XmlElement, but it won't look like what you want. It will look like the following:
<SomeModel SomeStringElementName="testData">
</SomeModel>
The only way I can think of to achieve what you want (natively) would be to have properties pointing to objects named SomeStringElementName and SomeInfoElementName where the class contained a single getter named "value". You could take this one step further and use DataContractSerializer so that the wrapper classes can be private. XmlSerializer won't read private properties.
// TODO: make the class generic so that an int or string can be used.
[Serializable]
public class SerializationClass
{
public SerializationClass(string value)
{
this.Value = value;
}
[XmlAttribute("value")]
public string Value { get; }
}
[Serializable]
public class SomeModel
{
[XmlIgnore]
public string SomeString { get; set; }
[XmlIgnore]
public int SomeInfo { get; set; }
[XmlElement]
public SerializationClass SomeStringElementName
{
get { return new SerializationClass(this.SomeString); }
}
}