WEB API to return object following serialization attributes

Question

I am using WEB API to return an object (class).

Class is already being structured using System.Xml.Serialization attributes, which makes if difficult to return entire cl

Answer 1

ASP.NET Web API does use the serialization attributes defined at the class level. However, XmlMediaTypeFormatter uses DataContractSerializer by default. Since you are using XmlSerializer, you need to tell Web API to use the same, like this.

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters
                      .XmlFormatter.UseXmlSerializer = true;