public static string CreateXML(string filename, gbXML gbx)
{
try
{
XmlSerializer szer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(gbXML));
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(filename);
szer.Serialize(tw, gbx);
tw.Close();
return "Ok";
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return e.ToString();
}
}
public static bool CreateSerial(string filepath)
{
//place an in memory object here that represents your class representation of the building
List<EPObj.MemorySafe_Spaces> myspace = new List<EPObj.MemorySafe_Spaces>();
myspace = EnergyPlusClass.EPlusSpacestoObjectList(@"C:\Users\Chiensi\Documents\C\Buro Happold\Oregon Sustainability Center\Run 1 + Daylighting Only\Run 1 new.idf");
gb.gbci = new CultureInfo(String.Empty);
bool ret = false;
//the basics
//constructor to define the basics
gbXML gbx = new gbXML();
gbx.lengthUnit = lengthUnitEnum.Feet;
gbx.temperatureUnit = temperatureUnitEnum.F;
string id = "cmps-1";
Campus cmp = CreateCampus(id);
cmp.Buildings = new Building[10000];
gbx.Campus = cmp;
//where does this location information from? it could be smartly inferred somehow, but otherwise specified by the user/programmer
Location zeloc = new Location();
zeloc.Name = "San Francisco, CA";
zeloc.Latitude = "37.795";
zeloc.Longitude = "-122.394";
//end the basics
//tie location and campus back to the gbXML file
cmp.Location = zeloc;
//Define the building(s) on the site
//CHarriman Septempber 19 2013
cmp.Buildings[0] = MakeBuilding(2000,"bldg-1",buildingTypeEnum.DiningBarLoungeOrLeisure);
//CHarriman September 19 2013
//define the stories for each building
//several ways to do this
List<List<double>> points = prod.MakeFakeList(5);
BuildingStorey bs = MakeStorey(1, points);
//CHarriman Jan 15 2014
//define the spaces for each building (these come from a space object elsewhere
List<Space> gbSpaces = new List<Space>();
gbSpaces = MakeSpacesFromEPObj(myspace);
for (int spacecount = 0; spacecount < gbSpaces.Count(); spacecount++)
{
cmp.Buildings[0].Spaces[spacecount] = gbSpaces[spacecount];
}
//after making all the spaces, I make the surfaces
cmp.Surface = new Surface[uniquesurfaces.Count()];
int surfcount = 0;
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Surface> pair in uniquesurfaces)
{
Surface surf = new Surface();
surf.id = pair.Key;
//this is a hard one, how to deal with this? For now, everything is external, and idf can sort of tell me
surf.surfaceType = pair.Value.surfaceType;
surf.constructionIdRef = pair.Value.constructionIdRef;
surf.Name = pair.Value.Name;
AdjacentSpaceId[] adjspaces = new AdjacentSpaceId[pair.Value.AdjacentSpaceId.Count()];
int counter = 0;
foreach (AdjacentSpaceId adj in pair.Value.AdjacentSpaceId)
{
adjspaces[counter] = adj;
counter++;
}
surf.AdjacentSpaceId = adjspaces;
RectangularGeometry rg = new RectangularGeometry();
rg = pair.Value.RectangularGeometry;
surf.RectangularGeometry = rg;
surf.PlanarGeometry = pair.Value.PlanarGeometry;
cmp.Surface[surfcount] = surf;
surfcount++;
}
cmp.Buildings[0].bldgStories[0] = bs;
//write xml to the file
XmlSerializer szer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(gbXML));
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(filepath);
szer.Serialize(tw, gbx);
tw.Close();
return ret;
}