public ActionResult <Response <Player> > CreateGame(CreateGameRequest request)
{
//Create the player object from the request and validate
try
{
//Create the host player who is joining, will perform data valiation inside Player Class
Player hostPlayer = new Player(request.nickname, request.imgUrl, request.contact);
hostPlayer.IsHost = true;
GameDAL gameDAL = new GameDAL();
Response <Game> createdGame = null;
Response <Player> createdPlayer = null;
//Generate a game code and create a new game in the database
//Creating the game inside a while loop because there is a chance that the gamecode could be duplicated
bool doRun = true;
while (doRun)
{
Game newGame = null;
newGame = new Game(Game.GenerateGameCode(),
request.timeLimit,
request.ammoLimit,
request.startDelay,
request.replenishAmmoDelay,
request.gameMode,
request.isJoinableAtAnytime,
request.Latitude,
request.Longitude,
request.Radius);
createdGame = gameDAL.CreateGame(newGame);
//If the response is successful the game was successfully created
if (createdGame.IsSuccessful())
{
doRun = false;
}
//If the response contains an error code of ITEMALREADYEXISTS then the game code is not unique,
//Want to run again and generate a new code
else if (createdGame.ErrorCode == ErrorCodes.ITEM_ALREADY_EXISTS)
{
doRun = true;
}
//If the response contains any other error code we do not want to run again because an un expected
//error occurred and we want to return the error response.
else
{
doRun = false;
}
}
//If the create game failed, return the error message and code from that response
if (!createdGame.IsSuccessful())
{
return(new Response <Player>(createdGame.ErrorMessage, createdGame.ErrorCode));
}
//Call the player data access layer to join the player to that game
int verificationCode = Player.GenerateVerificationCode();
createdPlayer = new PlayerDAL().JoinGame(createdGame.Data, hostPlayer, verificationCode);
//If the response was successful, send the verification code to the player
string message = "Your CamTag verification code is: " + verificationCode;
string subject = "CamTag Verification Code";
if (createdPlayer.IsSuccessful())
{
createdPlayer.Data.ReceiveMessage(message, subject);
}
//Otherwise, the host player failed to join the game deleted the created game
else
{
gameDAL.DeactivateGameAfterHostJoinError(createdGame.Data);
}
//Compress the player object so no photo data is sent back to the client to speed up request times
createdPlayer.Data.Compress(true, true, true);
return(createdPlayer);
}
//Catch any error associated with invalid model data
catch (InvalidModelException e)
{
return(new Response <Player>(e.Msg, e.Code));
}
//Catch any unhandled / unexpected server errrors
catch
{
return(StatusCode(500));
}
}