/* This overload of the ShowHotelDeals takes no paramters.
* It is the one called when the page is rendered for the first time
*/
public ActionResult ShowHotelDeals()
{
Models.HotelDealsData objHotelDealsData = null;
ViewBag.Message = "Your show hotel deals page.";
objHotelDealsData = HotelDeals.GetHotelDeals();
return(View(objHotelDealsData.offers.Hotel));
}
public ActionResult ShowHotelDeals(IFormCollection frmCollection)
{
Models.HotelDealsData objHotelDealsData = null;
var objSearchAtts = new Models.SearchAttributes();
DateTime TripStartDate = DateTime.MinValue;
DateTime TripEndtDate = DateTime.MinValue;
objSearchAtts.Destination = frmCollection["DestinationName"];
objSearchAtts.MinTripStartDate = frmCollection["StartDate"];
objSearchAtts.MaxTripStartDate = frmCollection["EndDate"];
objSearchAtts.MinStarRating = frmCollection["MinStarRate"];
objSearchAtts.MaxStarRating = frmCollection["MaxStarRate"];
objSearchAtts.MinGuestRating = frmCollection["MinGuestRate"];
objSearchAtts.MaxGuestRating = frmCollection["MaxGuestRate"];
objSearchAtts.MinTotalRating = frmCollection["MinTotalRate"];
objSearchAtts.MaxTotalRating = frmCollection["MaxTotalRate"];
//Persist search criteria to be rendered back to the search form.
TempData["Destination"] = objSearchAtts.Destination;
TempData["StartDate"] = objSearchAtts.MinTripStartDate;
TempData["EndDate"] = objSearchAtts.MaxTripStartDate;
TempData["MinStarRate"] = objSearchAtts.MinStarRating;
TempData["MaxStarRate"] = objSearchAtts.MaxStarRating;
TempData["MinGuestRate"] = objSearchAtts.MinGuestRating;
TempData["MaxGuestRate"] = objSearchAtts.MaxGuestRating;
TempData["MinTotalRate"] = objSearchAtts.MinTotalRating;
TempData["MaxTotalRate"] = objSearchAtts.MaxTotalRating;
if (objSearchAtts.MinTripStartDate != String.Empty)
{
TripStartDate = DateTime.Parse(objSearchAtts.MinTripStartDate);
}
if (objSearchAtts.MaxTripStartDate != String.Empty)
{
TripEndtDate = DateTime.Parse(objSearchAtts.MaxTripStartDate);
}
objSearchAtts.lengthOfStay = (int)(TripEndtDate.Subtract(TripStartDate).TotalDays);
objHotelDealsData = HotelDeals.GetHotelDeals(objSearchAtts);
if (objHotelDealsData == null)
{
return(View());
}
else
{
return(View(objHotelDealsData.offers.Hotel));
}
}
/* Takes an object that contains all the search fields that were added by the user. If the attributes */
/* GetAllDeals if true, then no search criteria was provided. */
public static Models.HotelDealsData GetHotelDeals(Models.SearchAttributes oSearchAtts)
{
Models.HotelDealsData objHotelDealsData = null;
string url = "https://offersvc.expedia.com/offers/v2/getOffers?scenario=deal-finder&page=foo&uid=foo&productType=Hotel";
try
{
if (!oSearchAtts.GetAllDeals)
{
string queryString = MakeQueryString(oSearchAtts);
url += queryString;
}
var syncClient = new WebClient();
var content = syncClient.DownloadString(url);
DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Models.HotelDealsData));
using (var ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(content)))
{
objHotelDealsData = (Models.HotelDealsData)serializer.ReadObject(ms);
}
if (objHotelDealsData.offers.Hotel.Count > 0)
{
foreach (var Hotel in objHotelDealsData.offers.Hotel)
{
// this loop in case you need to do an processing on the returned returned data before send it back to the controller.
}
}
return(objHotelDealsData);
}
catch
{
//Something went wrong
//ToDO: Show an error message to the user.
return(null);
}
}