SOAP Headers with C#: how to support different XML fields in Request and Reply

[Ken Newman]

I have a SOAP Header that has different XML fields in the request and response.

I instantiate one Header class for the Request and Response SOAP Header and using XmlIgnoreAttribute and bool fields to activate/de-activate the XML tags that are included or absent in each Instance.

My problem is how to declare the SOAP Header in the Web Reference file to support unique classes for the inbound and outbound SOAP Headers. When the wsdl was consumed by Visual Studio, it just setup one Header that is declared:

[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeaderAttribute( "Header", Direction=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeader Direction.InOut)]

This does not seem to work with a Header that has unique Header for the Request and Response, the Response comes back with the Header unchanged.

Thanks
Ken Newman

[dorinbogdan]

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[Ken Newman]

Hi,

Did you find the answer to your question?
If not, please let me know.
If yes, feel free to share it.

Thanks,
Dorin.

I think I have a better understanding of the issue and new question to pose:

I need to serialize my SOAP Header with a specific namepsace prefix. the server I am talking to sends back the SOAP Header in the response with this namespace prefix and I belive that the de-serializer wont work if I have not specified my SOAP Header with the namespace and the prefix.

Its odd that the server accepts my request as long as the namespace url is correct but will send back the soap header with the namespace and prefix. My program does not report an error for an unknown namespace prefix unless its a soap fault that returns, then I get an error that the namespace prefix is not recognized.

Any ideas as to how to have my outbound and inbound soiap header to have a unqique namespace prefix ?

thanks
Ken Newman