// declaring another method to handle a single string array – put each task in a separate method and group similar methods into classes
public Event BuildEvent(FeedFixture fixture)
{
// in the array, each position will be one bit of data
// i.e. originalJson[0] might be the home team
// originalJson[1] might be the away team etc.
// you’ll have to work all this out and populate the event, then return that event
Event newEvent = new Event();
newEvent.date = convertdate(fixture.date);
newEvent.hometeam = fixture.homeTeamName;
newEvent.href = fixture._links.self["href"];
newEvent.awayteam = fixture.awayTeamName;
// etc. etc.
return newEvent;
}
public Event findClosestEvent(List<Event> originalEvents)
{
Event shortDistanceEvent = new Event();
int numberOfEventsInList = originalEvents.Count();
int distance = FixtureRetriever.REALLY_REALLY_BIG_NUMBER;
foreach (Event e in originalEvents)
{
if (distance > e.duration)
{
distance = e.duration;
shortDistanceEvent = e;
}
}
return shortDistanceEvent;
}
public Event PopulateEventWithDistances(Event currentEvent, String locationA, string travelmode)
{
// setting up the variables
ApiCaller api = new ApiCaller();
JSONparserdistances jsonParser = new JSONparserdistances(); // Changed this too the new JSON parser
String apiAddress = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json";
String addressToCall = apiAddress + "?" + origin(locationA) + "&" + destination(currentEvent.locationLatitude, currentEvent.locationLongitude) + "&" + mode(travelmode) + "&" + apiKey();
// calling the api
String jsonString = api.GET(addressToCall);
currentEvent.distance = jsonParser.extractDistanceFromGoogleMapsJsonString(jsonString);
currentEvent.duration = jsonParser.extractTimeTakenFromGoogleMapsJsonString(jsonString);
currentEvent.durationFriendly = jsonParser.extractFriendlyTimeTakenFromGoogleMapsJsonString(jsonString);
currentEvent.distanceFriendly = convertFromMetersToMiles(currentEvent.distance);
return currentEvent;
}
