/// <summary>
/// Initializes de Artist Id Before making the requests
/// </summary>
private void InitArtistKey(Artist artist)
{
XmlHttpRequest xmlHttp = new XmlHttpRequest();
Dictionary <string, string> parameters = GetArtistInfoParameteres(artist.Name);
XmlDocument xmlDoc = null;
Task <string> strXmlStr = null;
string externalArtistId = null;
try
{
// does the http request
strXmlStr = xmlHttp.DoGetRequestAsync(_performersDataBaseURL, parameters);
// loads up de text into the XmlDocument
xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strXmlStr.Result);
// parses the XML Doc
externalArtistId = ParseArtistXml(xmlDoc, artist);
_artistKey = externalArtistId;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
/// <param name="artistName"></param>
public Artist GetArtistByName(string strArtistName)
{
Artist resultArtist = null;
XmlHttpRequest xmlHttp = new XmlHttpRequest();
Dictionary <string, string> parameters = GetArtistInfoParameteres(strArtistName.ToLower());
XmlDocument xmlDoc = null;
Task <string> strXmlStr = null;
try
{
// does the http request
strXmlStr = xmlHttp.DoGetRequestAsync(_baseURL, parameters);
// loads up de text into the XmlDocument
xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strXmlStr.Result);
// parses the XML Doc into the artist structure
resultArtist = ParseArtistXml(xmlDoc);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw ex;
}
return(resultArtist);
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets a location of an address from Google Maps
/// </summary>
/// <param name="strAddress"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public Location GetLocation(string strAddress)
{
Location resultLocation = null;
XmlHttpRequest xmlHttp = new XmlHttpRequest();
Dictionary <string, string> parameters = GetGeoLocationQueryParameteres(strAddress);
Task <string> strJSONResponse = null;
try
{
// does the http request
strJSONResponse = xmlHttp.DoGetRequestAsync(_baseURL, parameters);
GoogleGeoCodeResponse googleResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <GoogleGeoCodeResponse>(strJSONResponse.Result);
if (googleResponse.status == "OK")
{
if (googleResponse.results.Length == 1)
{
resultLocation = new Location();
resultLocation.City = (googleResponse.GetAddressComponent("locality") != null ?
googleResponse.GetAddressComponent("locality").long_name :
(
googleResponse.GetAddressComponent("postal_town") != null ?
googleResponse.GetAddressComponent("postal_town").long_name :
null)
);
resultLocation.Latitude = decimal.Parse(googleResponse.results[0].geometry.location.lat.Replace(".", ","));
resultLocation.Longitude = decimal.Parse(googleResponse.results[0].geometry.location.lng.Replace(".", ","));
resultLocation.Address1 = googleResponse.results[0].formatted_address;
resultLocation.Country = googleResponse.GetAddressComponent("country").long_name;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
return(resultLocation);
}
/// <summary>
/// Loads up the artists events
/// </summary>
/// <param name="artist"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private List <Event> LoadEvents(Artist artist)
{
int currentPage = 1;
int totalPages = 1;
XmlHttpRequest xmlHttp = new XmlHttpRequest();
Dictionary <string, string> parameters = GetEventsInfoParameteres(artist.Name);
XmlDocument xmlDoc = null;
Task <string> strXmlStr = null;
List <Event> eventList = new List <Event>();
try
{
while (currentPage <= totalPages)
{
// updates the page current parameter
parameters["page_number"] = currentPage.ToString();
// does the http request
strXmlStr = xmlHttp.DoGetRequestAsync(_eventsDataBaseURL, parameters);
// loads up de text into the XmlDocument
xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strXmlStr.Result);
// parses the XML Doc
totalPages = ParseEventsXml(xmlDoc, ref eventList);
currentPage++;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
return(eventList);
}
/// <summary>
/// Loads the artist's albums from lastFM
/// </summary>
/// <param name="artistResult"></param>
private void LoadAlbumInfo(Artist artist, Album album)
{
XmlHttpRequest xmlHttp = new XmlHttpRequest();
Dictionary <string, string> parameters = GetAlbumInfoParameteres(artist, album);
XmlDocument xmlDoc = null;
Task <string> strXmlStr = null;
try
{
// does the http request
strXmlStr = xmlHttp.DoGetRequestAsync(_baseURL, parameters);
// loads up de text into the XmlDocument
xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strXmlStr.Result);
// parses the XML Doc into the artist structure
ParseAlbumXml(artist, album, xmlDoc);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}