CDATA section ignored at request-response port

Question

Hi Friends,
I am calling a request-response service from BizTalk WCF-Basic Http port.
The request consists of CDATA section and service behavior is defined to return a response with similar structure.
<Request>
<![CDATA[<RequestID>123</RequestID>]]>
</Request>
The expected response is -
<Response>
<![CDATA[<ResponseID>789</ResponseID> <ServiceID>963</ServiceID>]]>
</Response>
I tested the service with SOAP UI and it gives desired results as above.
But, when same service is invoked through BizTalk WCF-Basic Http port, response received is -
<Response>
&lt;ResponseID&gt;789&lt;ResponseID&gt;&lt;ServiceID&gt;963&lt;ServiceID&gt;
</Response>
But why BizTalk is behaving like this? Looks like BizTalk is ignoring CDATA section and returning string.
Is it possible to apply some configuration at port something similar to 
disable-output-escaping=”yes” , so that port does not convert CDATA to string?
Hope someone can help!

Answer 1

So where is the problem in this behavior? The reason the service is expecting the request and response as CDATA elements is because it saves them from having to change the endpoint schema every time they release a new request response.
When you create the schemas generated by consuming the service promote the "Request" and "Response" elements. Then in the construct shape you can populate these using the promoted elements and assign the xml.OuterXml.
Similarly while processing the response you can load it into the xml using the XmlDocument.LoadXml(serviceMessage.Response);
Regards.