How to get xml response from a URL that serves xml?

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I have a mvc 4 rest service, now i have a c# desktop application, which i want to use via that service, and i have a 'test' function inside the service, now i want to call it from the application and get the response in xml document, how can i do this?

for example the url is: "http://localhost:3466/api/acp/test"
and the response is: image

any idea? i managed to the only the string "successfully executed", with a code that i deleted because its no help, i need to have the full response in xml object. tnx in advance.

Posted 25-Oct-15 8:48am

SrgjanX

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George Jonsson 25-Oct-15 15:19pm

So what is the response you want?

SrgjanX 25-Oct-15 15:54pm

xml object.

FranzBe 25-Oct-15 16:51pm

perhaps this
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh534080.aspx
might help.

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FranzBe · Answer 1 · 2015-10-25T11:13:00

Solution 1

just tried this:

C#

static void testGetXmlDocFromWebRequest()
{
  string response = string.Empty;
  string url = "your-url";
  WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
  try
  {
    using (StreamReader streamIn = new StreamReader((request.GetResponse()).GetResponseStream()))
    {
      response = streamIn.ReadToEnd();
      streamIn.Close();
    }
  }
  finally
  {
    request.Abort();

  }
  XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(response);
}

and it worked. Taken from: here

Posted 25-Oct-15 11:13am

FranzBe

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SrgjanX 25-Oct-15 17:23pm

yeah, and i tried this, and @FranzeBe's reply, and i still throws exception: "Root element is missing." i know this means wrong xml formatting, what do u think?

SrgjanX 25-Oct-15 17:23pm

i checked with online xml validator, it didnt found problem with the response, so whats the problem?