/// <summary>
/// Utility method: GetCoinSnapshotByID - Invoke CryptoCompare.com API's CoinSnapshotFullById call to
/// obtain the additional elements (i.e. current blocks, block reward, total coins mined, etc.) that
/// are not provided by CryptoCompare.com API's coinlist call, given the numeric id of a coin
/// </summary>
/// <param name="client"></param>
/// <param name="coinInformation"></param>
/// <returns>void</returns>
private void GetCoinSnapshotByID(ApiWebClient client, CoinInformation coinInformation)
{
string coinSnapshotIDParam = "";
// Obtain numeric id of the coin whose full record is passed in as coinInformation parameter
coinSnapshotIDParam = coinInformation.Id;
// Build URL string for the CoinSnapshotFullById CryptoCompare.com API call
string apiUrl = BuildApiUrlByID(coinSnapshotIDParam, "CoinSnapshotByID");
// Invoke CryptoCompare.com API's CoinSnapshotFullById call URL, then deserialize result and populate
// the additional fields provided by this API call into the coinInformation coin record
string json = client.DownloadAsString(apiUrl);
try
{
RootObjectCoinSnapshot coinsnapshotset = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <RootObjectCoinSnapshot>(json);
GeneralCoinSnapshotData coinSnapshot = new GeneralCoinSnapshotData();
coinSnapshot = coinsnapshotset.Data.General;
coinInformation.PopulateFromJson(coinSnapshot);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
string errorMsg = e.Message;
}
}
// This overload of PopulateFromJson populates the additional elements of a single CoinInformation object,
// as deserialized from CryptoCompare.com API's CoinSnapshotFullById call
public static void PopulateFromJson(this CoinInformation coinInformation, GeneralCoinSnapshotData snapshot)
{
coinInformation.CurrentBlocks = Convert.ToInt32(snapshot.BlockNumber);
coinInformation.Reward = Convert.ToDouble(snapshot.BlockReward);
coinInformation.TotalCoinsMined = snapshot.TotalCoinsMined;
coinInformation.RewardReduction = snapshot.BlockRewardReduction;
coinInformation.EstimatedBlockTime = Convert.ToDouble(snapshot.BlockTime);
coinInformation.NetworkHashRate = Convert.ToDouble(snapshot.NetHashesPerSecond);
}
