WSDL, Enums and C#: It's still murky

Question

I tried to look this up online, but all the WSDL examples seem to not really explain if I should mark things as basetype string in the WSDL or int...

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Answer 1

Enumerations will end up looking like their string representations. So the correct wsdl will present the enums as:

<xs:simpleType name="MyEnum">
    <xs:restriction base="xsd:string">
      <xs:enumeration value="Item1" />
      <xs:enumeration value="Item2" />
      <xs:enumeration value="Item3" />
      <xs:enumeration value="SpecialItem" />
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

The above will automatically serialize/deserialize to the MyEnum enumeration type for you. If you present the enums as xsd:int then you will end up having to convert them manually back and forth.

You can refer to the enumeration definition within your schema like so:

<xsd:complexType name="Class1">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="MyEnumProperty" type="MyEnum" />
    </xsd:sequence>
  </xsd:complexType>