InvalidOperationException: <Error xmlns=''> was not expected.

Question

Hi, Everybody!

I need to deserialize the following XML...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Error>
	<Message> There is an error in....</Message>
</Error>

I defined the following class...

[XmlRoot(ElementName="Error")]
public class Error { 

	[XmlElement(ElementName="Message")] 
	public string Message { get; set; } 
}

When I attempt to deserialize...

        private TResponse XmlStringToObject<TResponse>(string xmlString)
        {
            using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xmlString)))
            {
                var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TResponse));

                return (TResponse)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(memoryStream);
            }
        }

I get the following error message...

System.InvalidOperationException HResult=0x80131509 Message=There is an error in XML document (1, 40). Source=<Cannot evaluate the exception source> Inner Exception 1: InvalidOperationException: <Error xmlns=''> was not expected.

What am I doingwrong?

Answer 1

I think that TResponse was not Error in your call of XmlStringToObject<TResponse>.

Or maybe the real details were different.