/// <summary>
/// Seeds the data from JSON-files located in the given directory.
/// The directory must contain folders named as the category of its
/// contents.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="archivist">
/// The <c>Archivist</c> with database access
/// </param>
/// <param name="dataDir">
/// The directory the data is located in.
/// </param>
/// <param name="perCategory">
/// Number of <c>NewsItem</c>s per category to read.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// The number of <c>NewsItem</c>s added.
/// </returns>
public static int SeedDatabaseWithNews(Archivist archivist, string dataDir,
int perCategory = 3000)
{
int count = 0;
int errorCount = 0;
// Each category should be placed in its own directory.
string[] categoryDirs = Directory.GetDirectories(dataDir);
// Calculate number of files (3000 pr. category).
// The number of files is limited to ensure that no category is more
// likely than others.
int totalFilesCount = categoryDirs.Length * 3000;
foreach (string s in categoryDirs)
{
int categoryId = archivist.AddCategory(Path.GetFileName(s));
List<NewsMaterial> newsBuffer = new List<NewsMaterial>();
// Read 3000 files.
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(s);
for (int i = 0; i < perCategory && i < files.Length; i++)
{
string file = files[i];
string json = File.ReadAllText(file, UTF8Encoding.UTF8);
NewsMaterial news = ParseJson(json);
if (news != null)
{
newsBuffer.Add(news);
count++;
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Error seeding item.");
errorCount++;
}
Console.WriteLine("Loaded {0}/{1}", count + errorCount,
totalFilesCount);
}
// Write the news to the archivist.
Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
watch.Start();
archivist.AddNews(newsBuffer, categoryId, true);
watch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Time: {0}", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
Console.WriteLine("Seeded {0}.", newsBuffer.Count);
}
return count;
}
/// <summary>
/// Aggregates news from the given list of <c>NewsSource</c>s.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="archivist">
/// The <c>Archivist</c> of which to save aggregated news.
/// </param>
/// <param name="sources">
/// The <c>NewsSource</c>s of which to load news from.
/// </param>
private static void AggregateNewsFromSources(Archivist archivist,
List<NewsSource> sources)
{
List<NewsMaterial> newNewsMaterial = new List<NewsMaterial>();
// Run ParseNewsItems on each news source.
// In paralell
Parallel.ForEach(sources, (source, state) =>
{
if (source != null)
{
newNewsMaterial.AddRange(ParseNewsItems(source));
}
});
foreach (NewsSource source in sources)
{
archivist.UpdateNewsSource(source);
}
archivist.AddNews(newNewsMaterial);
}