//Downloads data about candidates from specified URL
public void CandidateListFromURL(string url)
{
XmlWebClientConnection xmlWebClient = new XmlWebClientConnection();
string doc = xmlWebClient.GetXmlData(url);
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(CandidateData), new XmlRootAttribute("candidates"));
var stringReader = new StringReader(doc);
var reader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader);
Candidates = ((CandidateData)serializer.Deserialize(reader)).Candidates;
}
//Checks if personal id number is disallowed to vote
public static bool IsBlacklisted(string pesel)
{
//Connection and downloading disallowed personal id from server
XmlWebClientConnection xmlWebClient = new XmlWebClientConnection();
string doc = xmlWebClient.GetXmlData(@"http://webtask.future-processing.com:8069/blocked");
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(doc);
//Searching for "pesel" markup
List <string> list = xdoc.Root.Descendants("pesel")
.Select(x => x.Value)
.ToList();
//Checking if personal id is on blacklist
foreach (string element in list)
{
if (element == pesel)
{
return(true);
}
}
return(false);
}