/// <summary>
/// This static method can be used to load property values into a new vCard collection from a file. The
/// filename can be a disk file or a URL.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filename">A path or URL to a file containing one or more vCards</param>
/// <returns>A new vCard collection as created from the file</returns>
/// <example>
/// <code language="cs">
/// VCardCollection vCards1 = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(@"C:\AddressBook.vcf");
/// VCardCollection vCards2 = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(
/// "http://www.mydomain.com/VCards/AddressBook.vcf");
/// </code>
/// <code language="vbnet">
/// Dim vCards1 As VCardCollection = VCardParser.ParseFromFile("C:\AddressBook.vcf")
/// Dim vCards2 As VCardCollection = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(
/// "http://www.mydomain.com/VCards/AddressBook.vcf")
/// </code>
/// </example>
public static VCardCollection ParseFromFile(string filename)
{
VCardParser vcp = new VCardParser();
vcp.ParseFile(filename);
return(vcp.VCards);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string outputFolder, outputFile;
if(args.GetUpperBound(0) < 1)
{
Console.WriteLine("Specify a folder name containing PDI files and a different one for the " +
"output files.");
return;
}
try
{
// Set the default encoding to iso-8859-1 (Western European) as several of the files are encoded
// that way.
PDIParser.DefaultEncoding = BaseProperty.DefaultEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
outputFolder = args[1];
if(!outputFolder.EndsWith(@"\", StringComparison.Ordinal))
outputFolder += @"\";
if(!Directory.Exists(outputFolder))
Directory.CreateDirectory(outputFolder);
Console.WriteLine("Parsing vCard files...");
// Since we'll be parsing multiple files, we'll create an instance of the parser and re-use it
// rather than using the static parsing methods.
VCardParser vcardp = new VCardParser();
foreach(string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(args[0], "*.vcf"))
{
Console.WriteLine("\n{0}", file);
vcardp.ParseFile(file);
Console.WriteLine(vcardp.VCards.ToString());
// Write it to a stream
outputFile = outputFolder + Path.GetFileName(file);
// NOTE: We must use the same encoding method when writing the file back out
using(var sw = new StreamWriter(outputFile, false, PDIParser.DefaultEncoding))
{
vcardp.VCards.WriteToStream(sw);
}
// Clear the collection ready for the next run
vcardp.VCards.Clear();
}
Console.WriteLine("\nParsing vCalendar files...");
// Since we'll be parsing multiple files, we'll create an instance of the parser and re-use it
// rather than using the static parser methods.
VCalendarParser vcalp = new VCalendarParser();
foreach(string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(args[0], "*.vcs"))
{
Console.WriteLine("\n{0}", file);
vcalp.ParseFile(file);
Console.WriteLine(vcalp.VCalendar.ToString());
// Write it to a stream
outputFile = outputFolder + Path.GetFileName(file);
// NOTE: We must use the same encoding method when writing the file back out
using(var sw = new StreamWriter(outputFile, false, PDIParser.DefaultEncoding))
{
vcalp.VCalendar.WriteToStream(sw);
}
// Clear the calendar ready for the next run
vcalp.VCalendar.ClearProperties();
}
Console.WriteLine("\nParsing iCalendar files...");
// Get a list of iCalendar files to parse. It uses the same parser as the vCalendar files
foreach(string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(args[0], "*.ics"))
{
Console.WriteLine("\n{0}", file);
vcalp.ParseFile(file);
Console.WriteLine(vcalp.VCalendar.ToString());
// Write it to a stream
outputFile = outputFolder + Path.GetFileName(file);
// NOTE: We must use the same encoding method when writing the file back out
using(var sw = new StreamWriter(outputFile, false, PDIParser.DefaultEncoding))
{
vcalp.VCalendar.WriteToStream(sw);
}
// Clear the calendar ready for the next run
vcalp.VCalendar.ClearProperties();
}
Console.WriteLine("\nParsing vNote files...");
// Since we'll be parsing multiple files, we'll create an instance of the parser and re-use it
// rather than using the static parser methods.
VNoteParser vnp = new VNoteParser();
foreach(string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(args[0], "*.vnt"))
{
Console.WriteLine("\n{0}", file);
vnp.ParseFile(file);
Console.WriteLine(vnp.VNotes.ToString());
// Write it to a stream
outputFile = outputFolder + Path.GetFileName(file);
// NOTE: We must use the same encoding method when writing the file back out
using(var sw = new StreamWriter(outputFile, false, PDIParser.DefaultEncoding))
{
vnp.VNotes.WriteToStream(sw);
}
// Clear the collection ready for the next run
vnp.VNotes.Clear();
}
}
catch(PDIParserException pe)
{
Console.WriteLine("\n\nError at line #{0}\n\n{1}", pe.LineNumber, pe.ToString());
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Unexpected failure:\n{0}", ex.ToString());
}
}
/// <summary>
/// This static method can be used to load property values into a new vCard collection from a file. The
/// filename can be a disk file or a URL.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filename">A path or URL to a file containing one or more vCards</param>
/// <returns>A new vCard collection as created from the file</returns>
/// <example>
/// <code language="cs">
/// VCardCollection vCards1 = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(@"C:\AddressBook.vcf");
/// VCardCollection vCards2 = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(
/// "http://www.mydomain.com/VCards/AddressBook.vcf");
/// </code>
/// <code language="vbnet">
/// Dim vCards1 As VCardCollection = VCardParser.ParseFromFile("C:\AddressBook.vcf")
/// Dim vCards2 As VCardCollection = VCardParser.ParseFromFile(
/// "http://www.mydomain.com/VCards/AddressBook.vcf")
/// </code>
/// </example>
public static VCardCollection ParseFromFile(string filename)
{
VCardParser vcp = new VCardParser();
vcp.ParseFile(filename);
return vcp.VCards;
}
