public RedirectToActionResult GenerateModelObjects(string messageTitle, string topic, string userName, string password, string passwordConfirmed,
string messageContent)
{
User newUser;
Message newMessage;
List <User> listOfUsers = UserList.GetListOfUsers;
bool userExists = false;
foreach (User u in listOfUsers)
{
//checking database to user if the username already exists
if (u.Username == userName)
{
userExists = true; //this means that the user has been found in the "database"
}
}
//sets topic to the appropriate input string for the model
if (topic == "generalChat")
{
topic = "general";
}
else
{
topic = "starwars";
}
if (userExists != true)
{
//assumes that user does not exist in "database"
//build a user
//add user to user list
//build a message
//add to messaging history of the user
//add message to messsage board
newUser = new User(userName, password);
newMessage = new Message(messageTitle, messageContent, userName, topic);
newUser.AddMessageToHistory(newMessage);
UserList.AddNewUser(newUser);
MessageBoard.addMessageToBoard(topic, newMessage);
}
else
{
//assumes that the user already exists in the database
//build message
//add to message history of the user
/*
* this is done by passing the desired username into the FindUser method in the userlist static class
* the method will return either -1, meaning the user was not found, or the index of the element the user exists in
*/
//add message to message board
newMessage = new Message(messageTitle, messageContent, userName, topic);
UserList.ModifyUserMessageHistory(userName, "add", newMessage);
MessageBoard.addMessageToBoard(topic, newMessage);
}
return(RedirectToAction("Index"));
}