Deserializing XML to objects which has list of objects in C#

Question

I have following xml which I want to Deserialize to an object.

<result>
    <reporttype>2</reporttype>
    <items>
        <item>
            <sku>0B0005</sku>
            <style>0B0005.DAK.GREY</style>
            <reason>Barcode cannot be moved to different SKUs</reason>
        </item>
        <item>
            <sku>0B0006</sku>
            <style>0B0006.DAK.GREY</style>
            <reason>Barcode cannot be moved to different SKUs</reason>
        </item>
    </items>
</result>

But following code does not populate the item list, Can someone point me out what I am doing wrong here

string inputString = @"<result><reporttype>2</reporttype><items><item><sku>0B0005</sku><style>0B0005.DAK.GREY</style><reason>Barcode cannot be moved to different SKUs</reason></item><item><sku>0B0005</sku><style>0B0005.DAK.GREY</style><reason>Barcode cannot be moved to different SKUs</reason></item></items></result>";

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(inputString);

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Result));
StringReader rdr = new StringReader(doc.InnerXml);
Result resultingMessage = (Result)serializer.Deserialize(rdr);

public enum ReportType {
    [XmlEnum("0")]
    InternalErrorReport,
    [XmlEnum("1")]
    ErrorReport,
    [XmlEnum("2")]
    InternalSuccessReport
}

[XmlRoot(ElementName = "result")]
public class Result {
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "reporttype")]
    public ReportType reportType { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "items")]
    public List<Item> items = new List<Item>();

    public string error { get; set; }

    public class Item {
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "sku")]
        string sku { get; set; }
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "style")]
        string style { get; set; }
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "reason")]
        string reason { get; set; }
    }
}

Or is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Variable need to be public.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        const string FILENAME = @"c:\temp\test.xml";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string xml = File.ReadAllText(FILENAME);

            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Result));
            StringReader rdr = new StringReader(xml);
            Result resultingMessage = (Result)serializer.Deserialize(rdr);


        }
    }
    public enum ReportType
    {
        [XmlEnum("0")]
        InternalErrorReport,
        [XmlEnum("1")]
        ErrorReport,
        [XmlEnum("2")]
        InternalSuccessReport
    }

    [XmlRoot(ElementName = "result")]
    public class Result
    {
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "reporttype")]
        public ReportType reportType { get; set; }
        public Items items { get; set; }
        public string error { get; set; }


    }
    [XmlRoot("items")]
    public class Items
    {
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "item")]
        public List<Item> items = new List<Item>();
    }
    [XmlRoot("item")]
    public class Item
    {
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "sku")]
        public string sku { get; set; }
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "style")]
        public string style { get; set; }
        [XmlElement(ElementName = "reason")]
        public string reason { get; set; }
    }
}