Hi All,

I am working on developing a web service that returns an array list. Apart from SOAP, I had to enable HTTP POST and GET also.
Initially the web service was returning the ArrayList as ArrayOfAnyType and the individual items as <anyType />. I was able to solve this problem using
the [return :XmlElement(typeof(Data))] attribute

But this method doesn't work for HTTP POST / GET. I searched through the entire web for a solution to this, but it was in vain.

A lot of people have posted this question, but no answers. It would be of great help not only to me, but a bunch of other people, if
somebody could answer this question. The following is the response I get if I am invoking the web service through POST.

With SOAP response I don't have any problem as I said before.

Following is the way in which I get the reponse for POST/GET

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfAnyType xmlns="GetData.asmx">
  <anyType />
  <anyType />
</ArrayOfAnyType>

That is, the reposne i am getting is like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfAnyType xmlns="GetData.asmx">
  <anyType xsi:type="Data">
       <a>...</a>
       <b>...</b>
  </anyType>
  <anyType xsi:type="Data">
       <a>...</a>
       <b>...</b>
  </anyType>
  <anyType xsi:type="Data">
       <a>...</a>
       <b>...</b>
  </anyType>
</ArrayOfAnyType>

How do i make it similar to a SOAP response like

<Data>

  <a>...</a>

  <b>....</b>

</Data>

....

This is the class I am trying to return

class Data
{
	public string a;
	public string b;
}

Are you stuck using .NET 1.1? If not, then you should not use ArrayList. Instead, use List<Data>.

Thanks for replying John. No I am not using .Net 1.1, its 3.5. I don't have problems with SOAP methods as I use XmlInclude to solve the problem on the SOAP front. But for HTTP POST/GET calls, the inclusion of XmlInclude does not work out. So as of now, I am using .aspx pages that sets the response type to XML, apart from having the .asmx pages.

Great. My point was that ArrayList is deprecated, and you should not be using it.