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XmlDictionaryReader to XML file

H.echeva — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:42:16 GMT

Hello all,

I am playing around with the Revit Server REST API SDK example. I am slowly understanding how it works.

I understand that you make a request and then you get a response in json format, which we then transform with the XmlDictionaryReader to an xml (is that right?). To continue understanding the SDK example I would like to see how that request looks like in xml format. So far I have tried the following:

  XmlDictionaryReader reader = GetResponse(path + "/contents");
           File.WriteAllText("D:\\xmltest.txt", reader.ReadString());

but this doesn't return anything.

Is there a way to export the Request response as an xml? I am very lost in this as I am not used to deal with json or xml programmatically.

Many thanks

Re: XmlDictionaryReader to XML file

jeremytammik — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:26:56 GMT

Run your code in the debugger and take a look at the contents and properties of your reader variable.

Re: XmlDictionaryReader to XML file

H.echeva — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:23:15 GMT

Hello @jeremytammik

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, I couldn't make this to work. Using the debugger I see a lot of information but couldn't find the xml itself (see image).

I made some research and apparently this is not as easy as using only one method. I think it is necessary to loop through the nodes and export them.