XmlElement is not honored

XmlElementAttribute is not working on array parameters

Code:

[ServiceContract(Namespace ="urn:test:1")]
public interface ITestService
{
    [OperationContract]
    TestResult ExecuteFunction([XmlElement("parameterArray")]string[] parameterArray);
}

This will parse an empty array.

[MCFHTAGENTS]

Hi, I see a new release has just been done (0.0.9.9.6) - that doesn’t seem to address this. Anyway we can get this through?

[cubidobusinesssolutions]

TL;DR Instead of applying XmlElementAttribute directly to parameters, wrap parameters in request model class:

public interface IService
{
  response action(actionRequest request);
}
[MessageContract]
public class actionRequest
{
  [MessageBodyMember]
  [XmlElement]
  public string param1;
}

Finally, I upgraded to the latest version with only minor issues (see #591). After some digging, I stumbled accross the following comment in Connected Service generated code (namespaces omitted for brevity)

[GeneratedCodeAttribute("Microsoft.Tools.ServiceModel.Svcutil", "2.0.2")]
public interface MyService
{
  // CODEGEN: Parameter 'param1' requires additional schema information that cannot be captured using the parameter mode. The specific attribute is 'Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute'.
  [OperationContractAttribute(Action="", ReplyAction="*")]
  method1Response method1(method1 request);
}
[DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[GeneratedCodeAttribute("Microsoft.Tools.ServiceModel.Svcutil", "2.0.2")]
[EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[MessageContractAttribute(WrapperName="method1", IsWrapped=true)]
public partial class method1
{
  [MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Order=0)]
  [XmlElementAttribute(Form=System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
  public string param1;
}

XmlElementAttribute was never designed to do what I asked for^^