Serializing RTF during a web method call

[Keith Patrick]

I've seen this topic several times in archives, but I have not come across a
workable solution. I'm stuck in 1.1 for a project (although I can tack on
any WSE that still targets it), and I've got a class that stores some RTF in
some of its fields. RTF has an issue in that by definition, it includes a
null (/0) character, which does not encode well to UTF-8. Throughout my UI,
I can deserialize/serialize just fine because I use the
XmlTextReader/Writer, which does its magic to make sure that isn't a
problem. However, when I call my web method, the encoding is stuck at
UTF-8. I can set the service proxy's RequestEncoding to whatever I want, but
because the web service itself is using UTF8 (and as best I can tell, I
cannot change that), I cannot consume the web service.

It's been a while (and several releases) since 1.1's been out, so I was
wondering if in that time, someone's come up with a decent solution to this
within the confines of 1.1 (and the WSE family)

[John Saunders]

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I've seen this topic several times in archives, but I have not come across
a workable solution. I'm stuck in 1.1 for a project (although I can tack
on any WSE that still targets it), and I've got a class that stores some
RTF in some of its fields. RTF has an issue in that by definition, it
includes a null (/0) character, which does not encode well to UTF-8.
Throughout my UI, I can deserialize/serialize just fine because I use the
XmlTextReader/Writer, which does its magic to make sure that isn't a
problem. However, when I call my web method, the encoding is stuck at
UTF-8. I can set the service proxy's RequestEncoding to whatever I want,
but because the web service itself is using UTF8 (and as best I can tell,
I cannot change that), I cannot consume the web service.

It's been a while (and several releases) since 1.1's been out, so I was
wondering if in that time, someone's come up with a decent solution to
this within the confines of 1.1 (and the WSE family)

If it's your web method, try sending the RTF as an array of bytes.

John

[Keith Patrick]

That would be a bit difficult. The structure I am sending is hierarchical
with 4 child objects, 2 of which have 3 RTF fields, and the other 2 with 2
RTFs plus a child with 3 RTFs. Is there some way to tell the serializer to
serialize just those fields as binary, or does it have to be done at the web
service level?

[Keith Patrick]

Here's a working solution I came up with. It's not as good as specifying an
encoder in the service, but it does a similar thing. Basically, I tagged my
class (Note)'s .Value property with XmlIgnore (used to be XmlText), and then
tweaked it until it looked like this:
[XmlIgnore]
public String Value
{
get
{
String value = this.Utf8Value;
return value == null ? null :
Encoding.UTF7.GetString(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(val ue));
}
set
{
this.Utf8Value = value == null ? null :
Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.UTF7.GetBytes(val ue));
}
}

/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
[XmlText]
public String Utf8Value
{
get
{
return this._Value;
}
set
{
this._Value = value;
}
}
So basically, I'm telling the serializer to use an internal, UTF8-safe
property, while my RTFs interact with an an encoding/decoding facade
property.