public static async Task DownloadAllXKCD()
{
var g = SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD");
int n = int.Parse(g.Items.Last().UniqueId);
await addPreviousN(g.Items.Last(), g, n - g.Items.Count());
}
public static async Task checkAndAddNewComics()
{
string url = "http://xkcd.com/info.0.json";
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("user-agent", "XKCD Daily Win8 Reader");
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url);
string responseText = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
try
{
if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
SampleDataGroup Comics = SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD");
JsonObject json = JsonObject.Parse(responseText);
string month = json.GetNamedString("month");
int num = (int)json.GetNamedNumber("num");
if (Comics.Items[0].UniqueId != num.ToString())
{
string link = json.GetNamedString("link");
string year = json.GetNamedString("year");
string news = json.GetNamedString("news");
string safe_title = json.GetNamedString("safe_title");
string transcript = json.GetNamedString("transcript");
string alt = json.GetNamedString("alt");
string img = json.GetNamedString("img");
string title = json.GetNamedString("title");
string day = json.GetNamedString("day");
//localize?
string fulldate = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
SampleDataItem newcomic = new SampleDataItem(num.ToString(), title, fulldate, img, transcript, alt, Comics, img);
if (FavoriteManager.isFavorite(num))
{
newcomic.isFav = true;
}
Comics.Items.Insert(0, newcomic);
//SampleDataSource._sampleDataSource._allGroups.Clear();
//SampleDataSource._sampleDataSource._allGroups.Add(Comics);
}
}
else if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.GatewayTimeout)
{
var dia = new Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog("It appears xkcd.com is under heavy load. Please try again later.");
await dia.ShowAsync();
}
response.ToString();
}
catch (Exception)
{
}
}
public async override Task <IEnumerable <SampleDataItem> > PullDataAsync(uint count)
{
//return await SampleDataSource.returnPreviousN(SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD").Items.Last(), SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD"), (int)count);
var l = new List <SampleDataItem>();
l.Add(await SampleDataSource.getComicByNum(int.Parse(SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD").Items.Last().UniqueId) - 1, SampleDataSource.GetGroup("XKCD")));
return(l);
}
public static void WriteFavs()
{
List <string> favs = new List <string>();
foreach (var x in SampleDataSource.GetGroup("Favorites").Items)
{
favs.Add(x.UniqueId);
}
var settings = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RoamingSettings;
settings.Values["favs"] = string.Join(",", favs);
}