Save snapshot as XML via C# API

[bprommeg]

Hi,

in Ranorex Spy it is possible to save an element an all its childs (including all attributes) as snapshotfile in XML Format. Can you do the same using the C# API?

thx,
Bernhard

[Support Team]

Hello Bernhard,

There is a method named Snapshot() which can be used in order to create a Ranorex Snapshot file using API.
For example:

public static void Snapshot(
	Element target
)

Please take a look in our "Online API Documentation".

Regards,
Bernhard

[bprommeg]

thx for your reply. that helped.

but i have another question:
whenever i save a snapshot (independent if I use ranorex spy or the api method SerializeXml()), the XML gets pretty printed like that:

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        <attribute
        name="windowtext"
        type="System.String">
          Calculator
        </Attribute>

as a result of this, whenever i access the values of the XML they contain leading and trailing whitespaces because other programms interpret the value as something like:

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<tag>\n
\t\tvalue\n
</tag>

is it possible to save the snapshot without the extra whitespaces or do I have to get rid of them myself?

thanks,
bernhard

[Support Team]

Hello Bernhard,

Unfortunately this is not possible out of the box.
I am afraid that you have to change it in the already created snapshot.

Regards,
Bernhard