/// <summary>
/// Parse the user input to get and validate the anagram based on the algorithm
/// </summary>
/// <param name="algo"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static string GetAnagram(DefaultAlgo algo)
{
//We prepare the variable where to store the anagram
string anagram;
// This will store if the anagram is valid or not
bool isValid;
// We repeat the user input until he give us a valid anagram matching the pattern defined above
do
{
// Get the user input for the anagram
anagram = UI.Input("Anagram:");
// We check and assign the pattern match of the given anagram, if it's true we continue, yey we have a genius
if (isValid = algo.IsValid(anagram))
{
continue;
}
// Otherwise, for the monkeys, we will output some messages to provide the necessary information about our pattern requierements.
UI.Warning("Only A-Za-z characters are accepted.");
UI.Warning("The maximum length of characters is " + algo.MaxCharacters + " and the minimum is " + algo.MinCharacters);
} while(!isValid);
// In the end we output a 'ok' message and return the valid anagram
UI.Ok("Anagram is matching the pattern");
return(anagram);
}
/// <param name="args"></param>
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Init Database Manager
var db = new DatabaseManager(GetFilePath(), DatabaseType.CSV);
// Init Cache Manager
var cache = new Cache("resources/" + db.CacheFile);
// Init Default Algo object with the database file path
var algo = new DefaultAlgo(db);
while (_keepAlive)
{
// Output a blank space on each turn
UI.Blank();
// Validate and get the anagram
var anagram = GetAnagram(algo);
// Try to find the anagram in the repository
var solutions = cache.Find(anagram);
// Check if anagram was found in the cache repository
if (solutions == null || solutions.Count == 0)
{
// If there were no solutions found in the cache repository, then we collect a new set of solutions
solutions = algo.Solve(anagram);
// We store the valid anagram with already solved solutions to the cache repository and save it
cache.Save(anagram, solutions);
}
// First we must check if there are any solutions at all
// We store the total solutions count for later usage
if (solutions.Count == 0)
{
// If there are none we output a message for the user and we return/exit
UI.Warning("No solution was found.");
continue;
}
// Otherwise we output the first solution
UI.Success("Best solution is '" + solutions.First() + "' from a total of " + solutions.Count);
//In addition we check if there are any another solutions so we can suggest them to the user
if (solutions.Count > 1)
{
// Here we start from one to exclude the repetition of the first solution, we already have it above
UI.List(solutions, "Other suggestions:", 1);
}
}
}
