WCF best code practise

Hi Guys,

I need little advice. I have created a web servicre which seems to call mutliple methods and each method working on different API and bringing data in XML format in which i am doing manipulation and sending it back.

Now, the data I have in XML has 17 fields in it, and i want to update only 2 fields so i just set their value and sending the xml as it is.

Some of the people are suggesting me to make a class which will be having all 17 variables in it, and than i set the value and send the data. Should I do that like, just to update 3 to 4 variables why should i get all data and put it to classes. what good it will do to me? and at sema time i have to prepare class for every API that i am accessing.

What i have done is, create a method call the api, parse the xml get and set the data or add the data and done send it back.

i really need advice on this, what i was told is if tomorrow some change took place like if i am accessing tag and if tomorrow that thing changes in xml format from provider side my code will go in error. Do providers generally do that?

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Munib Butt6y ago
I think your solution is fine. Certainly if the xml format or tags change, you would need to fix your parser. However, if you created classes and popuplated them from XML nodes that would also have to be changed if the XML names or format changed.
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