public ServerSettings CreateChatServer(string ServerName)
{
ServerSettings settings = new ServerSettings();
ServerList serverlist = new ServerList();
settings.server_name = ServerName;
settings.server_password = GetServerPassword();
settings.backlog = GetServerBacklog();
settings.port_number = GetServerPortNumber();
settings.server_ip_address = GetServerIPAddress();
return settings;
}
/* this method is used when the server starts to search and load settings to be passed to the Listen() method */
public static ServerSettings Init(string ServerName)
{
ServerList SL = new ServerList();
string[] ServerList = SL.GetServerList(); // list of all directory paths
string ServerPath = "";
// ex: ServerList[0] = Server\Caleb
// we want to remove the parent directory from the path so we can retrieve the name
// for checking
// then we populate ConfigurationFile with elements of the txt file.
// we then use a SeverSettings to pass into Listen()
//for (int i = 0; i < ServerList.Length; i++)
// ServerList[i] = ServerList[i].Remove(0, SL.MainServerDirectory.Length + 1);
for (int i = 0; i < ServerList.Length; i++)
{
if (ServerName == ServerList[i])
{
ServerPath = SL.MainServerDirectory + @"\" + ServerName;
}
}
//gets the configuration file from the Servers\myserver directory
DirectoryInfo ConfigFileInfo = new DirectoryInfo(ServerPath);
FileInfo[] files = ConfigFileInfo.GetFiles();
string ConfigFilePath = "";
for (int i = 0; i < files.Length; i++)
{
if (files[i].Extension == ".txt" && files[i].Name.Contains("_Config"))
{
ConfigFilePath = files[i].FullName;
}
}
List<string> ConfigurationFile = Tools.IO.ReadTextFileList(ConfigFilePath);
ServerSettings settings = new ServerSettings();
//TODO: could I just iterate through this and add through the structure to make it less hacky?
settings.server_name = ConfigurationFile[1];
settings.server_password = ConfigurationFile[2];
settings.backlog = int.Parse(ConfigurationFile[3]);
settings.server_ip_address = ConfigurationFile[4];
settings.port_number = int.Parse(ConfigurationFile[5]);
return settings;
}
// prompts the user to enter in a server name
private string GetSeverName()
{
ServerList serverlist = new ServerList();
Console.WriteLine("Enter the name of the new server: ");
while (true)
{
string input = Console.ReadLine();
if (!(string.IsNullOrEmpty(input)))
{
if (!(Directory.Exists(serverlist.MainServerDirectory + @"\" + input)))
{
return input;
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("The server already exists");
}
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("please enter in a name for the server");
}
}
}
// add the server to the server list and write the configurations
private static void CreateNewServer(ServerSettings settings)
{
ServerList Servers = new ServerList();
Servers.Add(settings); // ServerList creates the configuration file and res folder
}
