////api/observations
public CreateObservationResponse CreateObservation(PostObservationModel model)
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(model.Name))
model.Name = "Fungi";
var postUri = "observations?" + ConstructQueryString(model);
var request = new RestRequest(postUri, Method.POST);
var response = RestClient.Execute(request);
var result = response.Content.ParseXML<XMLResponseModels.ApiResponse>();
if (result.Errors != null)
{
return new CreateObservationResponse()
{
Success = false,
Message = result.Errors.Items.FirstOrDefault()?.Details
};
}
return new CreateObservationResponse()
{
Success = true,
Message = result.Results?.Items?.FirstOrDefault()?.Id.ToString()
};
}
private string ConstructQueryString(PostObservationModel model)
{
var queryParams = new NameValueCollection();
queryParams.Add("api_key", ApiKey);
queryParams.Add("date", model.Date);
queryParams.Add("location", model.Location);
queryParams.Add("notes", model.Notes);
queryParams.Add("has_specimen", model.HasSpecimen);
queryParams.Add("name", model.Name);
queryParams.Add("vote", model.Confidence);
queryParams.Add("log", "no");
var items = new List<string>();
foreach (string name in queryParams)
{
items.Add(string.Concat(name, "=", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(queryParams[name])));
}
return string.Join("&", items);
}
