public static void createJson(titleItems tI, string path)
{
//strings the path of the file and alters the name of the file in accordance to the format given
//altering the datetime.now structure is necessary
string filePath = path + "\\" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd-HH") + ".json";
//the object is serialized
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(tI, Formatting.Indented);
//the object is then deserialized ready to be written
tI = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <titleItems>(json);
//appends the data to the file using the path and the object
File.AppendAllText(@filePath, json);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//paths to a folder, I coded this to find my desktop
string folderPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + "\\feed";
//url given
string url = "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml";
//calls getNews method to retrieve data from url string
titleItems Items = Feeds.getNews(url);
//Finds the folder to create a new document
Feeds.FindFolder(folderPath);
//creates new document
Feeds.createJson(Items, folderPath);
}
public static titleItems getNews(String url)
{
//declared at this stage to return the value
titleItems mainItems;
//using the xml reader to read the url passed through from Program class
using (System.Xml.XmlReader rdr = System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(url))
{
//Syndication feed loads the feed from the given url
SyndicationFeed feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(rdr);
//declaring mainItems class
mainItems = new titleItems();
//declaring the itemlist of child news items
List <Items> itemList = new List <Items>();
//for each item within the feed
foreach (var item in feed.Items)
{
// creation of main object follows the children containing each news feed
if (item.Title.Text == "BBC News Channel")
{
//sets the main title, link and desc if the title text == the title usually given
//very error prone although it works in this instance
mainItems.title = item.Title.Text;
mainItems.link = item.Id;
mainItems.description = item.Summary.Text;
}
else
{
//otherwise it sets the items accordingly
Items newsItemList = new Items();
newsItemList.title = item.Title.Text;
newsItemList.link = item.Id;
newsItemList.description = item.Summary.Text;
newsItemList.pubDate = item.PublishDate.ToString();
// adds the news to the main object
itemList.Add(newsItemList);
}
}
mainItems.items = itemList;
//close reader once we have finished reading feed and return feed object.
rdr.Close();
}
//value being returned
return(mainItems);
}