Getting Bytes represented by array of strings

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Background:

Our app is C#. We're getting data from a Java app thru an Axis2 web service. We don't control the Java/Axis2 end.

 

The WSDL declares one field as < xs : element name= "bytes" nillable="true" type="xs : base64Binary" / >

which should be an array of bytes, representing a PDF.

 

When we try to read it as ba se64Bin ary, we get an error trying to deserialize. (See this post: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=393100)

 

If you view the service through a browser and pass valid data you get something like this:

- < attachments xmlns = "http : //webservices. server.ecers.branaghgroup . com/xsd" >

* 37

* 80

* 68

* 70

* 45

* 49

* 46

* 52

* 10

* 37

* -30

* -29

* -49

* -45

* 10

* 52

* 32

* 48

* 32

* 111

 

 

If I change my local WSDL to do an array of strings like this

< xs : element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="bytes" nillable="true" type="xs : string" / >

I get an array of strings:

37,80,68,70,45,49,46,52,10,37,-30,-29...

 

Questions:

1) As a workaround, I'm getting the data into my app with the string method. Could I get that turned into my bytes that I could stream to a file or save in an SQL database?

 

Encoding to byte would take 37 and give me the bytes for that string, not a byte of 37.

 

2) Am I getting the deserialization issue because I'm not getting 0037, 0080, 0068...?

 

 

 

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