/// <summary>
/// Manages our Database function call and gets back the Data as they return us
/// And converts it to an array which we return
/// </summary>
/// <returns>A Dictionary Array which we can read through</returns>
public Dictionary <string, object>[] GetData(DateTime date)
{
ManageDB test = new ManageDB();
IEnumerable <Dictionary <string, object> > results = test.LoadDB(date);
/// <remarks>
/// Allows us to read the data
/// We convert the dara into an array so it is not in an interface and we are able
/// to read the data that our query returned
/// </remarks>
Dictionary <string, object>[] results_arr = results.ToArray();
return(results_arr);
}
/// <summary>
/// Assisted by code from https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cityofnewyork.us/fhrw-4uyv
/// queried DB - https://data.cityofnewyork.us
/// API KEY - PVGjhHLj8Svy7Ryz0uJgW9IBh
/// loadDB connects to the database, sends the query and then returns the data
/// </summary>
/// <returns>Returns the da taset of the query to main</returns>
public IEnumerable <Dictionary <string, object> > LoadDB()
{
/// <remarks>
/// This requires the SODA library
/// It can be installed from NuGet in Visual studio using
/// Install-Package CSM.SodaDotNet
/// </remarks>>
SODA.SodaClient client = new SodaClient("https://data.cityofnewyork.us", "PVGjhHLj8Svy7Ryz0uJgW9IBh");
/// <remarks>
/// The documentation on the web is outdated.
/// The .NET library has been updated to no longer allow generic typing.
/// You must use either Dictionary(String,Object) - use <> but not allowed in XML comments
/// OR a user-defined json serializable class - their documentation does not explain how to do this
/// well enough, however so we are sticking with the Generic Collection specified
/// </remarks>>
SODA.Resource <Dictionary <string, object> > dataset = client.GetResource <Dictionary <string, object> >("fhrw-4uyv");
/// <summary>
/// instantiate our object and get our query from GetQueryDate()
/// </summary>
ManageDB test = new ManageDB();
SODA.SoqlQuery soql = test.GetQueryDate();
/// <summary>
/// Query sends our query to our pre-defined location and returns an IEnumerable which we assign to results
/// results now contains the results of our query
/// </summary>
IEnumerable <Dictionary <string, object> > results = dataset.Query <Dictionary <string, object> >(soql);
/// <summary>
/// Testing to make sure that our query returned results
/// Will be changed to throw an error instead of printing a value
/// </summary>
int SizeOfList;
test.TestIEnum(ref results, out SizeOfList);
Console.WriteLine(SizeOfList);
return(results);
}
