SoapInclude and XmlInclude attributes are ignored

[lucamorelli]

I'm converting an app to asp.net core, and the classes are full of ArrayList, so I have to serialize them
If I write a method like this

        [XmlInclude(typeof(DocsPaVO.ProfilazioneDinamica.Templates))]
        [SoapInclude(typeof(DocsPaVO.ProfilazioneDinamica.Templates))]
        public ArrayList getTemplates(string idAmministrazione)
        {
            try
            {
                var result = BusinessLogic.ProfilazioneDinamica.ProfilazioneDocumenti.getTemplates(idAmministrazione);
				//return result.OfType<DocsPaVO.ProfilazioneDinamica.Templates>().ToList();
                return result;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                logger.Debug("Errore in DocsPaWS.asmx  - metodo: getTemplates", e);
                return null;
            }
        }

When executed gives me this error

System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document.
---> System.InvalidOperationException: The type DocsPaVO.ProfilazioneDinamica.Templates was not expected. Use the XmlInclude or SoapInclude attribute to specify types that are not known statically.

why is soapcore ignoring the attribute?

[andersjonsson]

Unfortunately support for XmlInclude and SoapInclude has not been implemented. You are more than welcome to give it a shot if you feel up to the task.

Otherwise I'd recommend using the more specific type as return type and experimenting to see if you can coax legacy clients to accept that

[lucamorelli]

could be nice, but I don't know how to do. Where can I find info?

[andersjonsson]

Unfortunately I don't know the details of those attributes but I imagine that you would need to add info in the wsdl (MetaBodyWriter and MetaWCFBodyWriter) and also some modifications in ServiceBodyWriter since the type of the responseObject will differ from the expected type.

I suspect that the error message you got came from ServiceBodyWriter

[lucamorelli]

I'm doing some tests and even removing the arraylist properties I have serialization problems. Do you have any suggestion on how troubleshoot serialization/deserialization problems?

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