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    copied!<p>I am working on a REST API that I post to using POST and XML as the content. In my WebInvoke method, it seems to only be serializing a few of the properties. For example, I pass FirstName, LastName, Email, Phone, and Address, but it isn't setting the Email and Address properties. So when it adds the data to my database, those fields are blank.</p> <p>Why is this? Why is it setting some of the properties but not others? I've tried re-arranging the order and that didn't affect anything. That also brings me to one other question: Do ALL the properties have to be passed in the xml, or will only passing a few like I have here suffice? I hope the answer is it doesn't need all, because this may be a pretty dynamic system and new properties may be added frequently without the xml being changed.</p> <p>Here is some of the relevant code:</p> <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>public class Lead { #region Public Properties [DataMember(Name = "LeadId")] public int LeadId { get; set; } [DataMember(Name="FirstName")] public string FirstName { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "MiddleName")] public string MiddleName { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "LastName")] public string LastName { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Email")] public string Email { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Email2")] public string Email2 { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Phone")] public string Phone { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Phone2")] public string Phone2 { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Address")] public string Address { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Address2")] public string Address2 { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Address3")] public string Address3 { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "City")] public string City { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "State")] public string State { get; set; } [DataMember(Name = "Zip")] etc... </code></pre> <p>Here's the OperationContract</p> <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>[OperationContract] [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "leads", BodyStyle= WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)] string AddLead(Lead lead); </code></pre> <p>Here's the AddLead function in the Service:</p> <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>public string AddLead(Lead lead) { string result = lead.Submit(); if (result == "Success") { return "Success. " + lead.LeadId; } else { return result; } } </code></pre> <p>And here is the XML that I'm passing:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;Lead xmlns="http://www.myrenamednamespace.com/leads"&gt; &lt;FirstName&gt;John&lt;/FirstName&gt; &lt;LastName&gt;Doe&lt;/LastName&gt; &lt;Email&gt;JohnDoe@gmail.com&lt;/Email&gt; &lt;Phone&gt;8885551234&lt;/Phone&gt; &lt;Address&gt;123 Fake St&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;City&gt;Fake City&lt;/City&gt; &lt;/Lead&gt; </code></pre>
 

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