I am evaluating j8583 as a library to parse ISO8583 messages. It works as expected for almost all fields but I am having trouble getting the correct value for Field 33.
I have created the following unit test:
#Test
public void testDecode() throws IOException, ParseException {
MessageFactory<IsoMessage> messageFactory = ConfigParser.createFromClasspathConfig("j8583.xml");
messageFactory.setUseBinaryMessages(true);
String testData = "0100000000018000000006560103095900000360";
IsoMessage isoMessage = messageFactory.parseMessage(HexCodec.hexDecode(testData), 0);
assertEquals("560103", isoMessage.getField(32).toString());
assertEquals("590000036", isoMessage.getField(33).toString());
}
And here is my config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE j8583-config PUBLIC "-//J8583//DTD CONFIG 1.0//EN" "http://j8583.sourceforge.net/j8583.dtd">
<j8583-config>
<parse type="0100">
<field num="32" type="LLBCDBIN" length="11"/>
<field num="33" type="LLBCDBIN" length="11"/>
</parse>
</j8583-config>
When running the unit test Field 32 is parsed correctly, but 33 fails. The value I get for Field 33 is 900000360
Since they are both configured the same and the data seems to be the same (06560103095900000360), I don't understand why this does not parse correctly
For odd lengths, the values are left-padded, not right-padded. So the first nibble is ignored, not the last one.
I'm sorry it's not clear in the documentation. I'll amend it to specify this.
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I am sending JSON object through TcpSocket. I deserialize it after destination receives. Usually first a few objects are sent and deserialized without issue! And then suddenly one comes with an extra curly braket only at the end then run time exception.
Seriosuly, what the hell is this ?
System.Text.Json.JsonException: ''}' is invalid after a single JSON value. Expected end of data. Path: $ | LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 32.'
{"Value":3,"Name":"Blood Sugar"}}
while(true)
{
seperateSocketForEachRequest.Receive(byteMessage);
seperateSocketForEachRequest.Send(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("FF"));
string stringMessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byteMessage);
stringMessage = stringMessage.Substring(0, stringMessage.IndexOf('\0'));
Object message = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Object>(stringMessage);
}
////////////////////////////////////////
while (Form.isGenerate)
{
Data newData = dataType.generate(person.generatingParameters);
Thread.Sleep(500);
clientSocket.Send(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(JsonSerializer.Serialize<Data>(newData)));
byte[] messageReceivedByte = new Byte[1024];
clientSocket.Receive(messageReceivedByte);
}
I found the issue. It is caused of data transmission. Apparently same buffer is used for writing data received from socket and new data is written over old data. Therefore, when value of data is 2 digit number, no issue, when a data comes with 1 digit, boom.
{"Value":76,"Name":"Blood Sugar"}
{"Value":99,"Name":"Blood Sugar"}
{"Value":76,"Name":"Blood Sugar"}
{"Value":1,"Name":"Blood Sugar"}}
So, for the Intuit IPP Rest API,
Say if i want to query a customer who's name is ABC, i can use a http get request like this
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/198445012/query?query=select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName%3D'ABC'
&3D is a url escape of '=', this works without any problem.
Now if the customer's name is A&B, I tried the query string like this
select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName='A&B'
After the url encoding, it looks like this
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/198445012/query?query=select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName%3D'A%26B'
It will fail.
Any Idea?
Update
The above urls i copied from the IPP's API explorer.
Here is the code, I am using DevDefined.OAuth
IConsumerRequest conReq = _oSession.Request();
conReq = conReq.Get();
conReq.AcceptsType = "application/xml";
//conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(#"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, #"select * from Customer where DisplayName='ABC'")); if use this line, it works fine
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(#"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, #"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'"));
try
{
string str = conReq.ReadBody();
catch (Exception ex)
{
//ex.Message
}
the returned xml data like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<IntuitResponse xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" time="2014-03-20T06:24:12.408-07:00">
<Fault type="ValidationFault">
<Error code="4000">
<Message>Error parsing query</Message>
<Detail>QueryParserError: Invalid content. Lexical error at line 1, column 44. Encountered: <EOF> after : "\'A"</Detail>
</Error>
</Fault>
</IntuitResponse>
I am not 100% sure, yesterday when i test, it actually return something says the oauth failed. But this is what I got this morning.
Actually, you can try it within IPP's API explorer, it gives the same result.
The devdefined's code for ForUrl
public static IConsumerRequest ForUrl(this IConsumerRequest request, string url)
{
request.Context.RawUri = new Uri(url);
return request;
}
That will encode the url as
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/1122502005/query?query=select%20*%20from%20Customer%20where%20DisplayName='A&B'
Ok, finally, found the issue:
The real issue is Uri(url) won't escape the & in 'A&B' because it doesn't know if it is a url & or part of the data, So i changed the following line
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(#"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, #"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'"));
as
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(#"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, Uri.EscapeDataString(#"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'")));
use Uri.EscapeDataString to escape the data query string first.
If you create a customer with name 'A&B', then V3 service returns that customer object like below -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<IntuitResponse xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" time="2014-03-20T01:54:46.834-07:00">
<Customer domain="QBO" sparse="false">
<Id>10</Id>
<SyncToken>0</SyncToken>
<MetaData>
<CreateTime>2014-03-20T01:54:46-07:00</CreateTime>
<LastUpdatedTime>2014-03-20T01:54:47-07:00</LastUpdatedTime>
</MetaData>
<FullyQualifiedName>A&B</FullyQualifiedName>
<DisplayName>A&B</DisplayName>
<PrintOnCheckName>A&B</PrintOnCheckName>
<Active>true</Active>
<Taxable>true</Taxable>
<Job>false</Job>
<BillWithParent>false</BillWithParent>
<Balance>100.00</Balance>
<BalanceWithJobs>100.00</BalanceWithJobs>
<PreferredDeliveryMethod>Email</PreferredDeliveryMethod>
</Customer>
</IntuitResponse>
To retrieve this object by name, you need to use the following query
SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE DisplayName = 'A&B'
But it needs to be url encoded like following
SELECT+*+FROM+Customer+WHERE+DisplayName+%3D+%27A%26B%27
Java code to achieve this -
Customer customer = GenerateQuery.createQueryEntity(Customer.class);
String query = select($(customer)).where($(customer.getDisplayName()).eq("A&B")).generate();
// Query output - SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE DisplayName = 'A&B'
String encodedUrl = URLEncoder.encode(query, "UTF-8");
It works perfectly. (Devkit handles all these pretty well )
Hope this answers your qts.
Thanks
Please see an example here to escape special chars-
using Intuit.Ipp.Core;
using Intuit.Ipp.Data;
using Intuit.Ipp.LinqExtender;
using Intuit.Ipp.QueryFilter;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
static class SampleCalls
{
public static Customer QueryCustomerByDisplayName(ServiceContext context, string displayName) {
displayName = displayName.Replace("'", "\\'"); //Escape special characters
QueryService<Customer> customerQueryService = new QueryService<Customer>(context);
return customerQueryService.Where(m => m.DisplayName == displayName).FirstOrDefault();
}
}
I receive an XML via a web service and I am using legacy code (which uses dom4j) to perform some xml transformation. Loading/parsing the original XML into VTD-XML (VTDGen) works fine, no exceptions thrown. However, after loading the xml into dom4j, I noticed some of the element namespace declarations and attributes are re-arranged. Apparently, this re-arrangement causes VTD-XML to throw the following exception:
Exception:
Name space qualification Exception: prefixed attribute not qualified
Line Number: 101 Offset: 1827
Here is the element at this line number in the original XML:
<RR_PerformanceSite:PerformanceSite_1_4 RR_PerformanceSite:FormVersion="1.4" xmlns:NSF_ApplicationChecklist="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_ApplicationChecklist-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_CoverPage="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_CoverPage-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_DeviationAuthorization="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_DeviationAuthorization-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_Registration="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_Registration-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_SuggestedReviewers="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_SuggestedReviewers-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_CareerDevelopmentAwardSup="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_CareerDevelopmentAwardSup_1_1-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_Checklist="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_Checklist_1_3-V1.3" xmlns:PHS398_CoverPageSupplement="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_CoverPageSupplement_1_4-V1.4" xmlns:PHS398_ModularBudget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_ModularBudget-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_ResearchPlan="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_ResearchPlan_1_3-V1.3" xmlns:PHS_CoverLetter="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS_CoverLetter_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_Budget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_Budget-V1.1" xmlns:RR_KeyPersonExpanded="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_OtherProjectInfo="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_PerformanceSite="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PerformanceSite_1_4-V1.4" xmlns:RR_PersonalData="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_PersonalData-V1.1" xmlns:RR_SF424="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_SF424_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_SubawardBudget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_SubawardBudget-V1.2" xmlns:SF424C="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/SF424C-V1.0" xmlns:att="http://apply.grants.gov/system/Attachments-V1.0" xmlns:codes="http://apply.grants.gov/system/UniversalCodes-V2.0" xmlns:globlib="http://apply.grants.gov/system/GlobalLibrary-V2.0">
Here is the same element after loaded into dom4j:
<RR_PerformanceSite:PerformanceSite_1_4 xmlns:RR_PerformanceSite="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PerformanceSite_1_4-V1.4" xmlns:NSF_ApplicationChecklist="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_ApplicationChecklist-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_CoverPage="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_CoverPage-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_DeviationAuthorization="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_DeviationAuthorization-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_Registration="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_Registration-V1.1" xmlns:NSF_SuggestedReviewers="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/NSF_SuggestedReviewers-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_CareerDevelopmentAwardSup="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_CareerDevelopmentAwardSup_1_1-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_Checklist="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_Checklist_1_3-V1.3" xmlns:PHS398_CoverPageSupplement="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_CoverPageSupplement_1_4-V1.4" xmlns:PHS398_ModularBudget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_ModularBudget-V1.1" xmlns:PHS398_ResearchPlan="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS398_ResearchPlan_1_3-V1.3" xmlns:PHS_CoverLetter="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/PHS_CoverLetter_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_Budget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_Budget-V1.1" xmlns:RR_KeyPersonExpanded="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_OtherProjectInfo="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_PersonalData="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_PersonalData-V1.1" xmlns:RR_SF424="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_SF424_1_2-V1.2" xmlns:RR_SubawardBudget="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_SubawardBudget-V1.2" xmlns:SF424C="http://apply.grants.gov/forms/SF424C-V1.0" xmlns:att="http://apply.grants.gov/system/Attachments-V1.0" xmlns:codes="http://apply.grants.gov/system/UniversalCodes-V2.0" xmlns:globlib="http://apply.grants.gov/system/GlobalLibrary-V2.0" RR_PerformanceSite:FormVersion="1.4">
The problem is regarding the attribute (at offset 1827, at the end of the element) in the new XML element: RR_PerformanceSite:FormVersion="1.4"
Here is what removes the exception:
1. Adding the RR_PerformanceSite xmlns declaration for this element to the root element of the XML doc.
2. Replacing new element with original element. This SEEMS to lead me to believe that the order of the attributes/ns declarations affects VTD when parsing.
NOTE: I parse the xml doc setting ns aware to 'true' with both xml docs (original and post-dom4j xml). Also, new VTD objects are created for each xml, original and post-dom4j.
I tried to put 'RR_PerformanceSite:FormVersion="1.4"' at the beginning of the element like the original but that does not remove the exception. The offset in the error message is different due to the change of location of the attribute. Does the order of the xmlns declarations affect VTD?
I have looked at the VTDGen source code and cannot figure out why this exception is being thrown.
Why would dom4j parse the new doc and vtd is unable to? Can anyone can shed some light on this?
It appears to be a bug on VTD-XML, related with namespace declaration order.
Always reproducible using the following Java code
public class SchemaTester {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String bad = "C:/Temp/VTD_bad.xml"; // XML files to test
String good = "C:/Temp/VTD_good.xml";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
char[] buf = new char[4*1024];
FileReader fr = new FileReader(bad);
int readed = 0;
while ((readed = fr.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) != -1) {
sb.append(buf, 0, readed);
}
fr.close();
String x = sb.toString();
//instantiate VTDGen
//and call parse
VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
vg.setDoc(x.getBytes("UTF-8"));
vg.parse(true); // set namespace awareness to true
VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
AutoPilot ap = new AutoPilot (vn);
ap.selectXPath("//*/#*");
int i= -1;
while((i=ap.evalXPath()) != -1) {
// i will be attr name, i+1 will be attribute value
System.out.println("\t\tAttribute ==> " + vn.toNormalizedString(i));
System.out.println("\t\tValue ==> " + vn.toNormalizedString(i+1));
}
}
}
The OP has uploaded the XML to https://gist.github.com/2696220
I saw this question already, but I didnt see an answer..
So I get this error:
The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A, cannot be included in a name.
On this code:
XDocument XMLFeed = XDocument.Load("http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/most-popular?format=xml");
XNamespace content = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";
var feeds = from feed in XMLFeed.Descendants("item")
select new
{
Title = feed.Element("title").Value,
Link = feed.Element("link").Value,
pubDate = feed.Element("pubDate").Value,
Description = feed.Element("description").Value,
MediaContent = feed.Element(content + "encoded")
};
foreach (var f in feeds.Reverse())
{
....
}
An item looks like that:
<rss>
<channel>
....items....
<item>
<title>Pentagon confirms plan to create new spy agency</title>
<link>http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/most-popular/~3/lVUZwCdjVsc/</link>
<category>politics</category>
<dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" />
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:44:51 PDT</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/24/pentagon-confirms-plan-to-create-new-spy-agency/</guid>
<content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[|http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Politics/panetta_hearing_030712.jpg<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/most-popular/~4/lVUZwCdjVsc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
<description>The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it is carving out a brand new spy agency expected to include several hundred officers focused on intelligence gathering around the world.&#160;</description>
<dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2012-04-4T19:44:51Z</dc:date>
<feedburner:origLink>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/24/pentagon-confirms-plan-to-create-new-spy-agency/</feedburner:origLink>
</item>
....items....
</channel>
</rss>
All I want is to get the "http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Politics/panetta_hearing_030712.jpg", and before that check if content:encoded exists..
Thanks.
EDIT:
I've found a sample that I can show and edit the code that tries to handle it..
EDIT2:
I've done it in the ugly way:
text.Replace("content:encoded", "contentt").Replace("xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\"","");
and then get the element in the normal way:
MediaContent = feed.Element("contentt").Value
The following code
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var XMLFeed = XDocument.Parse(
#"<rss>
<channel>
....items....
<item>
<title>Pentagon confirms plan to create new spy agency</title>
<link>http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/most-popular/~3/lVUZwCdjVsc/</link>
<category>politics</category>
<dc:creator xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/' />
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:44:51 PDT</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/24/pentagon-confirms-plan-to-create-new-spy-agency/</guid>
<content:encoded xmlns:content='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/'><![CDATA[|http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Politics/panetta_hearing_030712.jpg<img src='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/most-popular/~4/lVUZwCdjVsc' height='1' width='1'/>]]></content:encoded>
<description>The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it is carving out a brand new spy agency expected to include several hundred officers focused on intelligence gathering around the world.&#160;</description>
<dc:date xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>2012-04-4T19:44:51Z</dc:date>
<!-- <feedburner:origLink>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/24/pentagon-confirms-plan-to-create-new-spy-agency/</feedburner:origLink> -->
</item>
....items....
</channel>
</rss>");
XNamespace contentNs = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";
var feeds = from feed in XMLFeed.Descendants("item")
select new
{
Title = (string)feed.Element("title"),
Link = (string)feed.Element("link"),
pubDate = (string)feed.Element("pubDate"),
Description = (string)feed.Element("description"),
MediaContent = GetMediaContent((string)feed.Element(contentNs + "encoded"))
};
foreach(var item in feeds)
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
}
private static string GetMediaContent(string content)
{
int imgStartPos = content.IndexOf("<img");
if(imgStartPos > 0)
{
int startPos = content[0] == '|' ? 1 : 0;
return content.Substring(startPos, imgStartPos - startPos);
}
return string.Empty;
}
results in:
{ Title = Pentagon confirms plan to create new spy agency, Link = http://feeds.f
oxnews.com/~r/foxnews/most-popular/~3/lVUZwCdjVsc/, pubDate = Tue, 24 Apr 2012 1
2:44:51 PDT, Description = The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it is carving out
a brand new spy agency expected to include several hundred officers focused on
intelligence gathering around the world. , MediaContent = http://global
.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Politics/panetta_hearing_030712.jpg }
Press any key to continue . . .
A few points:
You never want to treat Xml as text - in your case you removed the namespace declaration but actually if the namespace was declared inline (i.e. without binding to the prefix) or a different prefix would be defined your code would not work even though semantically both documents would be equivalent
Unless you know what's inside CDATA and how to treat it you always want to treat is as text. If you know it's something else you can treat it differently after parsing - see my elaborate on CDATA below for more details
To avoid NullReferenceExceptions if the element is missing I used explicit conversion operator (string) instead of invoking .Value
the Xml you posted was not a valid xml - there was missing namespace Uri for feedburner prefix
This is no longer related to the problem but may be helpful for some folks so I am leaving it
As far as the contents of the encode element is considered it is inside CDATA section. What's inside CDATA section is not an Xml but plain text. CDATA is usually used to not have to encode '<', '>', '&' characters (without CDATA they would have to be encoded as < > and & to not break the Xml document itself) but the Xml processor treat characters in the CDATA as if they were encoded (or to be more correct in encodes them). The CDATA is convenient if you want to embed html because textually the embedded content looks like the original yet it won't break your xml if the html is not a well-formed Xml. Since the CDATA content is not an Xml but text it is not possible to treat it as Xml. You will probably need to treat is as text and use for instance regular expressions. If you know it is a valid Xml you can load the contents to an XElement again and process it. In your case you have got mixed content so it is not easy to do unless you use a little dirty hack. Everything would be easy if you have just one top level element instead of mixed content. The hack is to add the element to avoid all the hassle. Inside the foreach look you can do something like this:
var mediaContentXml = XElement.Parse("<content>" + (string)item.MediaContent + "</content>");
Console.WriteLine((string)mediaContentXml.Element("img").Attribute("src"));
Again it's not pretty and it is a hack but it will work if the content of the encoded element is valid Xml. The more correct way of doing this is to us XmlReader with ConformanceLevel set to Fragment and recognize all kinds of nodes appropriately to create a corresponding Linq to Xml node.
You should use XNamespace:
XNamespace content = "...";
// later in your code ...
MediaContent = feed.Element(content + "encoded")
See more details here.
(Of course, you the string to be assigned to content is the same as in xmlns:content="...").
I've been using XML serialization for a while, and today I realized something really odd. If I have a new line right after a "dot" (.), when i deserialize, I lose the dot. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? The following is my serialization code:
Serialize
Dim xmlSerializer As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StoreLicense), New System.Type() {GetType(SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StationLicense)})
Dim gen As LicenseGenerator
If store Is Nothing Then
Throw New ArgumentNullException("store")
ElseIf store.StationLicenses Is Nothing Then
Throw New ArgumentNullException("store.StationLicenses")
ElseIf store.StationLicenses.Length = 0 Then
Throw New ArgumentOutOfRangeException("store.StationLicenses", "Must contain at least one element.")
End If
' Create a license generator for issuing new license keys.
gen = New LicenseGenerator(store)
' Generate store key.
store.LicenseKey = gen.GenerateLicenseKey
' Generate individual station keys.
For Each station In store.StationLicenses
station.LicenseKey = gen.GenerateLicenseKey(station)
Next
' Write license to file.
Using xFile As Xml.XmlWriter = Xml.XmlWriter.Create(licenseFile)
xmlSerializer.Serialize(xFile, store)
xFile.Close()
End Using
Deserialize
Dim xmlDeserializer As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StoreLicense), New System.Type() {GetType(SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StationLicense)})
Dim result As SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StoreLicense
Using xFile As Xml.XmlReader = Xml.XmlReader.Create(licenseFile)
result = DirectCast(xmlDeserializer.Deserialize(xFile), SilverWare.Licensing.Common.StoreLicense)
xFile.Close()
End Using
Return result
The really funny part is that if I have a space after the dot, or remove the new line character, there are no problems. This only happens if it is dot which I find mind boggling.
Here is a quick sample of my XML file that was created when I serialized:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<StoreLicense xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
...
<ReceiptAddress>98 N. Washington St.
Berkeley Springs West Virginia</ReceiptAddress>
<Name>Ambrae House at Berkeley Springs</Name>
<AliasName>Ambrae House</AliasName>
<Address1>98 N. Washington St.</Address1>
<Address2 />
...
</StoreLicense>
The line that is having the problem is the ReceiptAddress Node.
This post on MSDN seems to answer your question.
MSDN: Serialize String containing only whitespace such as a " " character
From that post, try this:
<XmlAttribute("xml:space")> _
Public SpacePreserve As [String] = "preserve"
This creates a root node like the following:
<DataImportBase xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xml:space="preserve">
Jim
Since I was using someone elses dll, I didn't even think that it would be modifying my data when we imported it. What was happening was that the other programmer had a reg_ex that was looking for a dot before a new line. That was my issue, and my grief for 3 months.