/// <summary>
/// Creates a Cloud Skills Challenge based on the parameter.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="contest">The argurments to pass to the server.</param>
/// <returns>The ContestResponse from the server.</returns>
private async Task <ContestResponse> CreateChallengeAsync(ContestRequest contest)
{
Uri uri = new Uri($"{apiRoot}{ApiPathContests}");
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(contest);
try
{
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.PostAsync(uri,
new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, MediaTypeJson));
string jsonResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
ContestResponse result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <ContestResponse>(jsonResponse);
return(result);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("Error: {0}; Request details: {1}", ex.Message, json));
throw;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a challenge for each collection based on template
/// </summary>
/// <param name="learningPaths">The list of collections to be used in the template.</param>
/// <param name="request">The template to be used to created the contest.</param>
/// <returns>The ContestResponse.</returns>
private async Task <List <ContestResponse> > CreateCollectionChallengesAsync(IList <LearningPath> learningPaths, ContestRequest request)
{
if (learningPaths == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException($"{nameof(learningPaths)} is null");
}
var results = new List <ContestResponse>();
request.Name = $"{request.Name} | {DateTime.Now.ToString(ContestDateFormat)} {ContestNameTag}";
foreach (LearningPath lp in learningPaths)
{
request.CollectionUrl = lp.CollectionUrl;
request.CollectionName = lp.CollectionName;
request.CollectionID = lp.GetCollectionId();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(request.CollectionName) &&
request.CollectionUrl.StartsWith(MsLearnUriPrefix) &&
!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(request.CollectionName))
{
ContestResponse result = await CreateChallengeAsync(request);
results.Add(result);
}
}
return(results);
}