with azure brokeredmessage get the body without knowing the type

c# azure azureservicebus
yamspog picture yamspog · Mar 15, 2013 · Viewed 30k times · Source

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

ckross01 picture ckross01 · Mar 15, 2013

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();

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