public string[] getWeather5day(string zipcode)
{
String[] weatherData = new String[10];
String[] maxTemp = new String[5];
String[] minTemp = new String[5];
//An arraylist of parameters to be extracted from the XML
ArrayList requiredData = new ArrayList();
requiredData.Add("Daily Maximum Temperature");
requiredData.Add("Daily Minimum Temperature");
try
{
//Create proxy object of the ndfdXML class
WeatherServiceReference.ndfdXML proxy = new WeatherServiceReference.ndfdXML();
//Get the latitude and longitude from the zipcode from the service in XML format
var latlongXML = proxy.LatLonListZipCode(zipcode);
//Put the latitude and longitude in the decimal array
decimal[] latlong = new decimal[2];
latlong = getLatLong(latlongXML);
//Get weather data for the next 5 days in the XML format
int index = 0;
var weatherDataStr = proxy.NDFDgenByDay(latlong[0], latlong[1], DateTime.Now.AddDays(1), "5", "e", "24 hourly");
//Load the XML into XmlDocument object
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(weatherDataStr);
//Get the parameters tag from the XML
XmlNodeList paramNode = doc.GetElementsByTagName("parameters");
//Navigate to the child node which contains the data
foreach (XmlNode child in paramNode)
{
XmlNodeList paramChildNode = child.ChildNodes;
foreach (XmlNode pchild in paramChildNode)
{
XmlNodeList dataNodeList = pchild.ChildNodes;
String nameStr = "";
Boolean name = true;
index = 0;
foreach (XmlNode dataNode in dataNodeList)
{
// the first node will be the name of the property
//check if the property is either minimum temperature or maximum temperature
//Add it accordingly to the minTemp or maxTemp array
if (name)
{
nameStr = dataNode.InnerText;
name = false;
}
else if (requiredData.Contains(nameStr))
{
if (nameStr.Equals("Daily Maximum Temperature"))
{
maxTemp[index] = dataNode.InnerText;
}
else
{
minTemp[index] = dataNode.InnerText;
}
index++;
}
}
}
}
//Combine the minTemp and maxTemp array into weatherData and return it
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
weatherData[i] = maxTemp[i];
}
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
weatherData[5 + i] = minTemp[i];
}
}
//return error message if an exception is caught
catch (Exception e)
{
weatherData[0] = "error";
weatherData[1] = e.Message;
}
return(weatherData);
}
