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sinsedrix
sinsedrix

Reputation: 4795

How to specify 'date' DataType for autogenerated WSDL?

I need a date (not a dateTime) to be passed to a web service,

I tried like that :

[WebMethod]
public void myMethod([XmlElementAttribute(DataType = "date")] DateTime someDate)
{
  // ...
}

But it still produce :

<tns:myMethod xsi:type="tns:myMethod">
    <someDate xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">dateTime</someDate>
</tns:myMethod>

Any idea ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1121

Answers (1)

David
David

Reputation: 73594

In .NET, even the System.DateTime.Date is a DateTime data type (documentaiton). There is no such thing as a "Date" datatype without the time in .NET.

The date portion of a DateTime will evaluate to midnight of that date, d

DateTime DateOnly = DateTime.Now.Date;
Console.Out.WriteLine(DateOnly.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");

will write out

2012-09-10 00:00:00

Within your code you can access just the date using the code above, but regardless, it's going to be a DateTime value.

Of course, SOAP Encoding does have a Date datatype, but .NET has nothing to match it to, other than the DateTime Data Type.

Unless you write your own data type, which would probably be a colossal waste of time.

Upvotes: 1

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