/// <summary>
/// Send a string (Unicode) based data request or send to the server.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="data"> The string data in Unicode to send. </param>
/// <param name="dataType"> The type of request to send to the server. </param>
private static object SendStringData(string data, ServerRequestTypes dataType)
{
string dataAsString = data;
byte[] dataAsBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(dataAsString);
byte[] headerData = GenerateHeaderData(dataType, (uint)dataAsBytes.Length);
byte[] toSend = new byte[headerData.Length + dataAsBytes.Length];
headerData.CopyTo(toSend, 0);
dataAsBytes.CopyTo(toSend, headerData.Length);
switch (dataType)
{
case ServerRequestTypes.GetEmail:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetLastModifiedDate:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetNumberOfQuizzesByAuthorName:
return(ReceiveFromServerStringData(toSend));
case ServerRequestTypes.GetQuizzesByAuthorName:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetQuizzesByQuizName:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetQuizzesByCategory:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetMissingQuizzesByAuthorName:
return(ReceiveFromServerListOfStringArrays(toSend));
case ServerRequestTypes.GetRealmFile:
case ServerRequestTypes.GetJPEGImage:
return(ReceiveFromServerBytes(toSend));
default:
return(ReceiveFromServerORM(toSend));
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Generate a header to detail what to do with data when server receives byte data.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type">The type of server request to be performed.</param>
/// <param name="size">The size of the data being sent to the server.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static byte[] GenerateHeaderData(ServerRequestTypes type, uint size)
{
byte[] headerData = new byte[stringHeaderSize];
headerData[0] = (byte)type;
byte[] dataSize = BitConverter.GetBytes(size);
dataSize.CopyTo(headerData, 1);
return(headerData);
}
