Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I am sending requests and getting responses from a server using XML serialization. I have to make an XML request that looks like this.....
<EntityRequest>
<Entity>
<EntityName>My Name</EntityName>
<Address>
<Street>My Street</Street>
<City>My City</City>
<State>My State</State>
<PostalCode>12345</PostalCode>
</Address>
<ContactList>
<Contacts>
<Description>FAX</Description>
<Telephone>
<Number>123-456-7890</Number>
</Telephone>
</Contacts>
<Contacts>
<Description>HOME</Description>
<Telephone>
<Number>321-654-9870</Number>
</Telephone>
</Contacts>
<Contacts>
<Description>CELL</Description>
<Telephone>
<Number>500-894-4569</Number>
</Telephone>
</Contacts>
</ContactList>
</Entity>
</EntityRequest>
I need to populate this request with information to send to the server. Now, I already have the seialization and deserialization already programmed and working. My issue is that the <Contacts> tags need to be put in some kind of array. This wouldn't be that bad but some of the tags are nested deeper like the <Number> tags. I have the Contacts part in a class and the Telephone part as another class instantiated inside the Contacts class. Bottom line is I think I need to insert the group of Contact tags into an array to have a multiple group of Contact tags as needed for more than 1 contact.
My c# code looks like.......
EntityRequest request =
new EntityRequest();
request.entityRequest.entity.entityName = "My Name";
request.entityRequest.entity.address.streetLineOne = "My Street";
request.entityRequest.entity.address.city = "My City";
request.entityRequest.entity.address.state = "My State";
request.entityRequest.entity.address.postalCode = "12345";
//The above code works fine, but when I try to use the array..
request.entityRequest.entity.contactList.contacts[0].description = "FAX";
request.entityRequest.entity.contactList.contacts[0].telephone.number = "123-456-7890";
I get the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" pointed at the array.
Could anyone help me put this in a proper array? I will provide more code and explainations if needed. Thanks to everyone in advance.
Regards,
Jay