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 /payment/creditcard HTTP/1.1
Host: avalonaccessapi.avalonbay.com
Accept: application/xml
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<CreditCardPaymentRequest xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/AvalonAccessAPI.ServiceModel.Request">
<OnlineCreditCardPaymentId>String</OnlineCreditCardPaymentId>
</CreditCardPaymentRequest>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<CreditCardPaymentResponse xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/AvalonAccessAPI.ServiceModel.Response">
<CheckNumber>String</CheckNumber>
<CommunityCode>String</CommunityCode>
<ErrorCode>String</ErrorCode>
<HttpCode>0</HttpCode>
<IsApproved>false</IsApproved>
<LeaseId>String</LeaseId>
<MesAuthCode>String</MesAuthCode>
<MesAvsResult>String</MesAvsResult>
<MesCvvResult>String</MesCvvResult>
<MesDuration>String</MesDuration>
<MesResponseText>String</MesResponseText>
<MesTransactionId>String</MesTransactionId>
<PersonId>String</PersonId>
<PropertyManagementId>String</PropertyManagementId>
<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>
<SubCommunityCode>String</SubCommunityCode>
</CreditCardPaymentResponse>