//</JSON methods>
/// <summary>
/// Name: grabQuery
/// Takes in query parameters and outputs a list of
/// all films matching it
/// </summary>
/// <param name="searchInput"></param>
/// <param name="sortBy"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public String grabQuery(string searchInput, string sortBy)
{
dynamic jsonContent = JsonConverter(searchInput);
filmDates fDS = new filmDates();
filmDate tempFilmDate = new filmDate();
string tempString = string.Empty;
//If a movie is input that does not have any entries, no
//display_title property will exist for them, and this will
//result in an error. This conditional checks for that.
if ((Convert.ToString(jsonContent)).Contains("display_title") && (searchInput != ""))
{
//Loops through "stuff" and adds values to fDS
for (int i = 0; i < jsonContent.results.Count; i++)
{
tempFilmDate = new filmDate(Convert.ToString(jsonContent.results[i].display_title),
Convert.ToString(jsonContent.results[i].summary_short),
convertDate(Convert.ToString(jsonContent.results[i].opening_date)));
fDS.addFilm(tempFilmDate);
}
//call sort to see what this list looks like when sorted
switch (sortBy)
{
case "Alphabetically":
fDS.sortAlphabetically();
break;
case "Newest First":
fDS.sortAscending();
break;
case "Oldest First":
fDS.sortDescending();
break;
}
foreach (filmDate f in fDS)
{
tempString = (tempString + f + "\r\n\r\n");
}
}
return(tempString);
}
//created new compare method to compare two dates using datetime's CompareTo call.
//If value is less than zero, f1 isn ealier than f2.
//If value is zero, than f1 and f2 are the same date.
//Else, f1 is later than f2.
private static int compareDates(filmDate f1, filmDate f2)
{
return(f1.getReleaseDate().CompareTo(f2.getReleaseDate()));
}
private static int compareNames(filmDate f1, filmDate f2)
{
return(f1.getName().CompareTo(f2.getName()));
}
public Boolean addFilm(filmDate input)
{
fList.Add(input);
return(true);
}