/// <summary>
/// Function to take in a comma, break line, or new line separated list of locations
/// and call out to the Google Places API, parse to find the State,
/// and return a List of the name returned from Google along with the State.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">Separeted list of locations</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public List <AddressDto> FindStates(string input)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(input))
{
return(null);
}
var output = new List <AddressDto>();
var taskList = new List <Task <string> >();
var locations = input.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine, "<br/>", "<br>", "," }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (var location in locations)
{
taskList.Add(_googleService.MakeRequestTask(new List <string>()
{
location
}));
}
Task.WaitAll(taskList.ToArray());
foreach (var task in taskList)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(task?.Result))
{
var json = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <GooglePlacesModel>(task.Result);
if (json?.candidates?.Any() ?? false)
{
var candidate = json.candidates.FirstOrDefault();
var state = AddressHelper.FindState(candidate.formatted_address);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(state))
{
output.Add(new AddressDto()
{
Name = candidate.name, State = state
});
}
}
}
}
return(output.OrderBy(x => x.State).ToList());
}
