Why Does SoapEnveloper.Header<T> Require The element name?

[MerrittMelker]

Why not just use the attributes attached to the class? It seems redundant.

[XmlRoot("MeowHeader", Namespace= "http://meow.com/")]
public class MeowResponseHeader : SimpleSOAPClient.Models.SoapHeader
{
  public string Status { get; set; }
  public string Message { get; set; }
}

var header = responseEnvelope
  .Header<MeowResponseHeader >("{http://meow.com/}MeowHeader");

I kept looking for:

var header = responseEnvelope.Header<MeowResponseHeader >();

but had to write it myself...

[MerrittMelker]

(using .net core - was getting weirdness with just GetType())

    public static class SoapEnvelopeExtensions
    {
        public static T Header<T>(this SoapEnvelope envelope) where T : SoapHeader
        {
            var typeInfo = envelope.GetType().GetTypeInfo();
            var attribute = typeInfo.GetCustomAttribute<XmlRootAttribute>();
            var name = $"{attribute.Namespace}{attribute.ElementName}";
            return envelope.Header<T>(name);
        }
    }

[gravity00]

Great suggestion! You are completely right, never thought about that. I'll include it in the next release.

Note: yes, they made some changes in .NET Core about reflection (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/02/10/porting-to-net-core/). I'll have to use different code by framework compilation.