//creates a new tweet object
private Tweet createTweet(string userName, string tweet, DateTime currentTimeStamp)
{
Utility myUtility = new Utility();
Tweet myTweet = new Tweet
{
UserName = myUtility.formatUpperCase(userName),
SingleTweet = tweet,
TimeStamp = currentTimeStamp
};
return myTweet;
}
private static void loadTweetDatabase(List < Tweet > tweetList)
{
char DELIM = '>';
string fileLine;
Tweet tweet;
string[] tweets;
FileStream inputFileStream = null;
StreamReader tweetStreamReader = null;
try {
inputFileStream = new FileStream(tweetDatabase, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
tweetStreamReader = new StreamReader(inputFileStream);
while ((fileLine = tweetStreamReader.ReadLine()) != null) {
tweets = fileLine.Split(DELIM);
if (tweets[1].Length <= Tweet.MAXTWEETCHARACTERS) {
tweet = new Tweet();
tweet.User = tweets[0].Trim();
tweet.Message = tweets[1];
tweetList.Add(tweet);
} else {
Logger.logError(new Exception ("This tweet: " + fileLine + Environment.NewLine + "is greater than the " + Tweet.MAXTWEETCHARACTERS +
" file character limit!" + " This Tweet was not loaded!"),
" FileName: " + tweetDatabase + Environment.NewLine);
}
}
tweetStreamReader.Close();
inputFileStream.Close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
Logger.logError(ex);
}
finally
{
if(inputFileStream != null)
{
tweetStreamReader.Close();
}
if(tweetStreamReader != null)
{
inputFileStream.Close();
}
}
}
