public List <Widget> AddWidgetToMachine(Widget newWidget)
{
// first lets get an object ready to send to our pretend API. This endpong needs
// a Widget with the added property "dateTime"
HttpObjFactoryBase sendFactory = (HttpObjFactoryBase)ViewModelLocator.Container.Resolve <ISendHttpObjFactory>();
IHttpObj widget = sendFactory.GetWidget(newWidget);
// now that our object is ready, lets send it to our pretend API (we don't actually use the object above, just pretend we do).
// lets now pretend the next line is the response from the API.
var response = @"{'first_Name':'Izzy','last_Name':'Gonzales'}";
// Unfortunately for us,
// the response is in a different format than most of our other models. The response has
// the property names with underscores! So we'll send it to our factories to get back a proper type we can use
HttpObjFactoryBase responseFactory = (HttpObjFactoryBase)ViewModelLocator.Container.Resolve <IResponseHttpObjFactory>();
var responseWidget = (Widget)responseFactory.GetWidget <string>(response);
if (widgets == null)
{
widgets = new List <Widget>();
}
if (widgets.Count < 3)
{
widgets.Add(responseWidget);
}
return(widgets);
}
public List <Widget> GetWidgets()
{
// pretend you just called an API and got this response
var response = @"[{'firstName':'Fred','lastName':'Jones'},{'firstName':'Jessie','lastName':'Smith'}]";
// grab reference to the factory I use for handling responses
HttpObjFactoryBase responseFactory = (HttpObjFactoryBase)ViewModelLocator.Container.Resolve <IResponseHttpObjFactory>();
// get an instance of the proper object from the factory
var tempWidgets = responseFactory.GetWidgets(response);
tempWidgets.ForEach(x => widgets.Add(x as Widget));
return(widgets);
}
