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techspider
techspider

Reputation: 3408

Date Format Issue with Web service

I have a web service with input parameters. The relevant XSD in the WSDL is below

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When I added this WSDL as Service Reference in Visual Studio, it generated a class with the corresponding fields asSystem.DateTime. Below is an example of the field in Reference class added for WSDL

private System.Nullable<System.DateTime> startDateField;

My binding to the service to create client is CustomBinding below

 protected CustomBinding GetCustomBinding()
    {
        var customBinding = new CustomBinding() { Name = "CustomBinding" };

        customBinding.Elements.Add(new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement() { MessageVersion = MessageVersion.Soap11 });
        var securityBindingElement = SecurityBindingElement.CreateUserNameOverTransportBindingElement();
        securityBindingElement.AllowInsecureTransport = true;
        securityBindingElement.EnableUnsecuredResponse = true;
        securityBindingElement.IncludeTimestamp = false;
        customBinding.Elements.Add(securityBindingElement);
        customBinding.Elements.Add(new HttpTransportBindingElement());

        return customBinding;
    }

My c# code to assign input

myobject.input.endDate = Convert.ToDateTime(endDate);

After assigning input values, I called a web method to see in Fiddler that all date parameters are missing in Request.

I tried to test in SoapUI. It looks like the service expects date in the format yyyy-MM-dd though the type is of date. The webservice returns data only when I supply date in the format yyyy-MM-dd.

I'm not sure if it is something to do with the expected date format by web service. Obviously, I can't send in format yyyy-MM-dd as .Net generated reference class has DateTime but not string data type.

I tried to forcibly set Specified to true 

myobject.input.endDate = Convert.ToDateTime(endDate).Date;
myobject.input.endDateSpecified = true;

I got the below error: 

A value was being set that exceeded the maximum allowable field length.

Now, I suspect that the web service expects Date but .Net is trying to send DateTime which might be extending its length

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2209

Answers (1)

techspider
techspider

Reputation: 3408

It looks like my last code worked but the error was due to another field.

myobject.input.endDate = Convert.ToDateTime(endDate).Date;
myobject.input.endDateSpecified = true;

Upvotes: 3

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