c# - Is it possible to model bind a soap request with mvc?

Question

A client has a service that sends out xml soap formatted requests that we need to receive via our .Net MVC4 project. A request would be in the format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <soap:Body>
        <ReceiveStatusUpdate xmlns="http://test.com">
            <StatusUpdate>
                <Reference>214563</Reference>
                <ThirdPartyReference>YOUR-REFERENCE</ThirdPartyReference>
                <Status>Pending</Status>
            </StatusUpdate>
        </ReceiveStatusUpdate>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

I'm wondering what would be the best way to receive and parse this request?

Answer 1

Slightly hacky way of doing this but it worked for me and it's a one off request type that I need to handle. I basically pulled the request body out and parsed it with XDocument

public ActionResult Update()
{
    var inputStream = Request.InputStream;
    inputStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    var request = new StreamReader(inputStream).ReadToEnd();
    var soapRequest = XDocument.Parse(request);
    ...
}