WCF: collection proxy type on client
- by Unholy
I have the following type in wsdl (it is generated by third party tool):
<xsd:complexType name="IntArray">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Elements" type="xsd:int" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
Sometimes Visual Studio generates:
public class IntArray : System.Collections.Generic.List<int> {}
And sometimes it doesn't generate any proxy type for this wsdl and just uses int[].
Collection type in Web Service configuration is System.Array.
What could be the reason for such upredictable behavior?
Edited:
I found the way how I can reproduce this behavior.
For examle we have two types:
<xsd:complexType name="IntArray">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Elements" type="xsd:int" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="StringArray">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Elements" type="xsd:string" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
VS generates:
public class IntArray : System.Collections.Generic.List<int> {}
public class StringArray : System.Collections.Generic.List<string> {}
Now I change StringArray type:
<xsd:complexType name="StringArray">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Elements" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:any minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" namespace="##any" processContents="lax" />
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##any" processContents="lax"/>
</xsd:complexType>
VS generates proxy type for StringArray only. But not for IntArray.
