protected override void OnStart()
{
base.OnStart();
peopleList = (ListView)FindViewById(Resource.Id.peopleList);
if (v == null)
{
GetUpis();
v = new VCard[upiList.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < upiList.Length; i++)
{
v [i] = new VCard("", upiList [i], "no homepage", "", "no picture");
}
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(o => GetPeople());
}
Thread.Sleep(2000);
peopleList.Adapter = new PeopleListAdapter(this, upiList);
}
public void GetPeople() //consumes url to produce an array of v-cards for each person
{
XmlDocument upisxml = new XmlDocument();
upisxml.Load("http://redsox.tcs.auckland.ac.nz/CSS/CSService.svc/people");
XmlNodeList uPIField = upisxml.GetElementsByTagName("uPIField");
MemoryStream vcardstream;
for (int i = 0; i < uPIField.Count; i++)
{
vcardstream = new MemoryStream(new WebClient().DownloadData(" http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/our_staff/vcard.php?upi=" + uPIField [i].InnerText));
var sr = new StreamReader(vcardstream);
var vcardstr = sr.ReadToEnd(); //get v-card as one string
string[] vcardfields = vcardstr.Split(':'); //: is delimiter in v-card
for (int j = 0; j < vcardfields.Length; j++)
{
string[] temp = vcardfields [j].Split((char)13); //carraige return is also a delimiter
vcardfields [j] = temp [0];
}
if (vcardfields [11] == "") //v card does not have a homepage
{
v [i] = new VCard(vcardfields [3], vcardfields [6], "no homepage", vcardfields [9], vcardfields [12]);
}
else
{
v [i] = new VCard(vcardfields [3], vcardfields [6], vcardfields [11] + ":" + vcardfields [12], vcardfields [9], vcardfields [13]); //index 11 + 12 due to : in http://
}
//v [i].ToDebugString (); //debug, prints all v-cards
}
}