WCF XML serialization message format

Question

I would like to receive an input message following this format:

<abc:message xmlns:abc="http://www.example.com" specver="0730">
    <abc:myrequest msgid="0123">
        <abc:AttID>3</abc:AttID>
        <abc:AuthNb>100</abc:AuthNb>

I wrote the following code to do so:

Interface:

 [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://www.example.com")]
    [XmlSerializerFormat]
    public interface IService1
    {

        [OperationContract(Name = "message")]
        string RequestData(MyMessageRequest message);

Data Contracts:

    [XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://www.example.com")]
    public class MyMessageRequest
    {

        [XmlAttribute(Namespace = "http://www.example.com", AttributeName = "specver")]
        public string Version { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "myrequest")]
        public MyRequest MyRequest { get; set; }

    }

    [XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://www.example.com")]
    public class MyRequest
    {
        
        [XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "msgid")]
        public string MsgId { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "AttID")]
        public string AttributionID { get; set; }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "AuthNb")]
        public int AuthenticationNumber { get; set; }

When I import my WSDL into SoapUI, I get the following pre-defined request:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:eft="http://www.eftpos2000.ch" xmlns:exam="http://www.example.com">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <eft:message>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <eft:message specver="?">
            <!--Optional:-->
            <exam:myrequest msgnum="?">
               <!--Optional:-->
               <exam:AcqID>?</exam:AcqID>
               <exam:AmtAuth>?</exam:AmtAuth>

As you will notice, I have two times an element named "message".

Any ideas how to remove the XML root element "message"?

BR Nicolas

Answer 1

This is because the variable name in your method is myrequest, and the first myrequest is the variable name of the method:

I modified it to message,the following picture is the request format required in SoapUI:

This is the MyMessageRequest class:

[XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://www.example.com")]
public class MyMessageRequest
{

    [XmlAttribute(Namespace = "http://www.example.com",AttributeName = "specver")]
    public string Version { get; set; }

    [XmlElement(ElementName = "myrequest")]
    public MyRequest MyRequest { get; set; }

}

UPDATE

The first message is a node encapsulated by the operationcontract. You can delete it, but it will generate a node with the default method name, you cannot delete this.