with azure brokeredmessage get the body without knowing the type

Question

When you are using the brokered message in the Azure Service Bus, you can retrieve the body of the message with the call .GetBody. The code is simple:

var msg = subscription.Receive(); MyPayload payload = msg.GetBody<MyPayload>(); 

However, is there a way to retrieve the Body without explicitly knowing the class of the body object?

var msg = subscription.Receive(); Type bodyType = Type.GetType( msg.ContentType);  var payload = msg.GetBody<bodyType>(); 

Answer 1

If the intent is to only grab the message body regardless of the content you can get it as a stream.

Stream stream = message.GetBody<Stream>(); StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream); string s = reader.ReadToEnd(); 

Answer 2

Here is the complete code to deserialize from the brokeredmessage:

public T GetBody<T>(BrokeredMessage brokeredMessage) {   var ct = brokeredMessage.ContentType;   Type bodyType = Type.GetType(ct, true);    var stream = brokeredMessage.GetBody<Stream>();   DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(bodyType);   XmlDictionaryReader reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateBinaryReader(stream, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max);   object deserializedBody = serializer.ReadObject(reader);   T msgBase = (T)deserializedBody;   return msgBase; }