To override the Content-type in your clients, use the HTTP Accept Header, append the .xml suffix or ?format=xml
HTTP + XML
The following are sample HTTP requests and responses.
The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /amenityReservation HTTP/1.1
Host: avalonaccessapi.avalonbay.com
Accept: application/xml
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<AmenityReservationRequest xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/AvalonAccessAPI.ServiceModel.Request">
<AmenityId>0</AmenityId>
<AmenityKey>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</AmenityKey>
<Charge>0</Charge>
<EndTime>0001-01-01T00:00:00</EndTime>
<EventTitle>String</EventTitle>
<Notes>String</Notes>
<OperationalId>String</OperationalId>
<ReservationDate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</ReservationDate>
<ReservationId>String</ReservationId>
<StartTime>0001-01-01T00:00:00</StartTime>
</AmenityReservationRequest>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<AmenityReservationResponse xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/AvalonAccessAPI.ServiceModel.Response">
<Id>String</Id>
<ResponseStatus xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.servicestack.net/types">
<d2p1:ErrorCode>String</d2p1:ErrorCode>
<d2p1:Message>String</d2p1:Message>
<d2p1:StackTrace>String</d2p1:StackTrace>
<d2p1:Errors>
<d2p1:ResponseError>
<d2p1:ErrorCode>String</d2p1:ErrorCode>
<d2p1:FieldName>String</d2p1:FieldName>
<d2p1:Message>String</d2p1:Message>
<d2p1:Meta xmlns:d5p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<d5p1:KeyValueOfstringstring>
<d5p1:Key>String</d5p1:Key>
<d5p1:Value>String</d5p1:Value>
</d5p1:KeyValueOfstringstring>
</d2p1:Meta>
</d2p1:ResponseError>
</d2p1:Errors>
<d2p1:Meta xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<d3p1:KeyValueOfstringstring>
<d3p1:Key>String</d3p1:Key>
<d3p1:Value>String</d3p1:Value>
</d3p1:KeyValueOfstringstring>
</d2p1:Meta>
</ResponseStatus>
</AmenityReservationResponse>