public void BallotPrompt(ElectionType electionType)
{
if (electionType == ElectionType.FirstPastThePost)
{
var i = 1;
Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the election! This is a 'First Past The Post' election model.\nThese are the following candidates to select from:\n" +
string.Join("\n", this.candidateArr.Select(x => $"{i++}: {x}"))
);
int counter = 1;
int choice = 0;
while (counter < 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please select your choice of candidate e.g. 1.");
choice = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
if (choice < 1 || choice > candidateArr.Length)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a valid choice.");
counter += 1;
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Thank you for voting!");
break;
}
}
if (counter == 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("You've exhausted your tries. Bye Bye");
return;
}
FirstPastThePostVote irVote = new FirstPastThePostVote(this.candidateArr[choice - 1]);
var jsonVote = this.voteSerializer.Serialize(irVote);
var signature = SignatureProvider.Sign(this.password, this.keyPair, jsonVote.GetBytes());
Vote vote = new Vote(this.keyPair.PublicKey.GetBase64String(), jsonVote, signature.GetBase64String());
this.voteMemoryPool.AddVote(vote);
}
else if (electionType == ElectionType.InstantRunoff)
{
var i = 1;
Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the election! This is a 'Instant Runoff' election model.\nThese are the following candidates to select from:\n" +
string.Join("\n", this.candidateArr.Select(x => $"{i++}: {x}"))
);
// We need to consider when a candidate is not wishing NONE
int counter = 1;
var prefs = "";
List <string> tokens = null;
char[] charSeparators = new char[] { ',' };
while (counter < 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please type a list in order of candidate preference e.g. 2,1,3.");
prefs = Console.ReadLine();
tokens = prefs.Split(charSeparators, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList();
if (tokens.Count > this.candidateArr.Length)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter valid choices in the correct format.");
counter += 1;
}
List <string> rankedOrderedCandidates = new List <string>();
for (int j = 0; j < tokens.Count; j++)
{
rankedOrderedCandidates.Add(this.candidateArr[Convert.ToInt32(tokens[j]) - 1]);
}
InstantRunoffVote iroVote = new InstantRunoffVote(rankedOrderedCandidates); // make the IR vote
var jsonVote = this.voteSerializer.Serialize(iroVote);
var signature = SignatureProvider.Sign(this.password, this.keyPair, jsonVote.GetBytes());
Vote vote = new Vote(this.keyPair.PublicKey.GetBase64String(), jsonVote, signature.GetBase64String());
this.voteMemoryPool.AddVote(vote);
return;
}
Console.WriteLine("You've exhausted your tries. Bye Bye");
return;
}
}
void ballotPrompt(ElectionType electionType)
{
if (electionType == ElectionType.FirstPastThePost)
{
var i = 1;
Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the election! These are the following candidates to select from:\n" +
string.Join("\n", this.candidateArr.Select(x => $"{i++}: {x}"))
);
int counter = 1;
int choice = 0;
while (counter < 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please select your choice of candidate e.g. 1.");
choice = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
if (choice < 1 || choice > candidateArr.Length)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a valid choice.");
counter += 1;
}
else
{
break;
}
}
if (counter == 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("You've exhausted your tries. Bye Bye");
return;
}
FirstPastThePostVote irVote = new FirstPastThePostVote(this.candidateArr[choice - 1]);
var jsonVote = this.voteSerializer.Serialize(irVote);
var signature = SignatureProvider.Sign(this.password, this.keyPair, jsonVote.GetBytes());
Vote vote = new Vote(this.keyPair.PublicKey.GetBase64String(), jsonVote, signature.GetBase64String());
}
else if (electionType == ElectionType.InstantRunoff)
{
var i = 1;
Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the election! These are the following candidates to select from:\n" +
string.Join("\n", this.candidateArr.Select(x => $"{i++}: {x}"))
);
// We need to consider when a candidate is not wishing NONE
int counter = 1;
var prefs = "";
char[] charSeparators = new char[] { ',' };
while (counter < 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please type a list in order of candidate preference e.g. 2, 1, 3.");
prefs = Console.ReadLine();
string[] tokens = prefs.Split(charSeparators, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
if () //TODO validation check of voter input check
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a valid choice.");
counter += 1;
}
else
{
break;
}
}
if (counter == 4)
{
Console.WriteLine("You've exhausted your tries. Bye Bye");
return;
}
InstantRunoffVote iroVote = new InstantRunoffVote(); // make the IR vote
var jsonVote = this.voteSerializer.Serialize(iroVote);
var signature = SignatureProvider.Sign(this.password, this.keyPair, jsonVote.GetBytes());
Vote vote = new Vote(this.keyPair.PublicKey.GetBase64String(), jsonVote, signature.GetBase64String());
}
}