/// <summary>
/// Method to export contacts to remote uri. Generates the
/// xml format for the contacts and provides that to the
/// method used to generate the POST request.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="uri">string</param>
/// <param name="cred">VATRPCredential</param>
/// <returns>void</returns>
private async Task ExecuteRemoteExport(string uri, VATRPCredential cred)
{
var cardWriter = new vCardWriter();
this.MyContacts = new ContactList();
this.MyContacts.VCards = new List <vCard>();
foreach (var contactVM in this.Contacts)
{
var card = new vCard()
{
GivenName = contactVM.Contact.Fullname,
FormattedName = contactVM.Contact.Fullname,
Title = contactVM.Contact.RegistrationName
};
card.Telephone.Uri = contactVM.Contact.RegistrationName;
this.MyContacts.VCards.Add(card);
}
// Add the namespaces
XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
ns.Add("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
ns.Add("xsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
this.MyContacts.Namespaces = ns;
// Serialize contacts into xml string
if (this.MyContacts.VCards != null)
{
XmlAttributes atts = new XmlAttributes();
atts.Xmlns = true;
XmlAttributeOverrides xover = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
xover.Add(typeof(List <vCard>), "Namespaces", atts);
XmlSerializer xsSubmit = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List <vCard>), xover);
var xml = "";
//XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
//settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true; // is this necessary?
using (var sww = new StringWriter())
{
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sww))
{
xsSubmit.Serialize(writer, this.MyContacts.VCards);
xml = sww.ToString(); // the final xml output
xml = xml.Replace("ArrayOfVcard", "vcards"); // replace incorrect tag with correct one
xml = xml.Replace("utf-16", "utf-8"); // TODO - fix this with formatting
}
}
try
{
await JsonWebRequest.MakeXmlWebPostAuthenticatedAsync(uri, cred, xml);
}
catch (JsonException ex)
{
Debug.WriteLine($"ERROR -- Failed to POST contacts to {uri}.");
}
}
}