// Handles the work of making a request and pulling Employee(s) from the result of a request (if there was an error the return value will
// be null)
protected static List <CEmployee> ProcessRequest(APIRequestResult aRequestResult)
{
// Make sure the Prev/Next Page URI, if there was an error, etc are reset in the event the user is re-using an object that has already
// been used for a different call (don't want a previous call's results giving the caller false information)
aRequestResult.ResetResultData();
// Pass the request on to the REST API. If there was an error then exit now
CRestApiHelper.MakeAPIRequest(aRequestResult);
if (aRequestResult.HadRequestError)
{
return(null);
}
// Load in the XML returned from the API call
XmlDocument xdDoc = new XmlDocument();
xdDoc.LoadXml(aRequestResult.RequestResult);
// Will hold the list of employees that will be returned to the calling function
List <CEmployee> lstEmployees = new List <CEmployee>();
// Grab the root element and get the Previous/Next Page URIs from it (when requesting a specific employee there will be no paging
// information returned since a single record is all that is ever returned. If that's the case we want our Previous/Next Page URIs to
// hold 'N/A' rather than "" which is why we pass in the URI_NOT_AVAILABLE constant)
XmlElement xeDocElement = xdDoc.DocumentElement;
aRequestResult.ResultPrevPageURI = CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeDocElement, Constants.PREV_PAGE_URI, Constants.URI_NOT_AVAILABLE);
aRequestResult.ResultNextPageURI = CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeDocElement, Constants.NEXT_PAGE_URI, Constants.URI_NOT_AVAILABLE);
XmlElement xeEmployee = null;
// Grab the list of Employee nodes and loop through the elements...
XmlNodeList xnlEmployees = xeDocElement.GetElementsByTagName("Employee");
int iCount = xnlEmployees.Count;
for (int iIndex = 0; iIndex < iCount; iIndex++)
{
// Grab the current element
xeEmployee = (XmlElement)xnlEmployees[iIndex];
// Add the current item to our list
lstEmployees.Add(new CEmployee(
CDovicoID.Parse(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeEmployee, "ID")),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeEmployee, "LastName"),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeEmployee, "FirstName")
// NOTE: If this is an Employee/Me/ request, the rest of the fields may not be available
));
} // End of the for(int iIndex = 0; iIndex < iCount; iIndex++) loop.
// Return the list of Employees to the caller
return(lstEmployees);
}
// Helper that fires off the request to the REST API and processes the results
protected static List <CTimeEntry> ProcessRequest(ref APIRequestResult aRequestResult)
{
// Make sure the Prev/Next Page URI, if there was an error, etc are reset in the event the user is re-using an object that has already
// been used for a different call (don't want a previous call's results giving the caller false information)
aRequestResult.ResetResultData();
// Pass the request on to the REST API. If there was an error then exit now
CRestApiHelper.MakeAPIRequest(aRequestResult);
if (aRequestResult.HadRequestError)
{
return(null);
}
// Load in the XML returned from the API call
XmlDocument xdDoc = new XmlDocument();
xdDoc.LoadXml(aRequestResult.RequestResult);
// Will hold the list of Time Entries that will be returned to the calling function
List <CTimeEntry> lstTimeEntries = new List <CTimeEntry>();
// Grab the root element and get the Previous/Next Page URIs from it (when requesting a specific time entry there will be no paging
// information returned since a single record is all that is ever returned. If that's the case we want our Previous/Next Page URIs to
// hold 'N/A' rather than "" which is why we pass in the URI_NOT_AVAILABLE constant)
XmlElement xeDocElement = xdDoc.DocumentElement;
aRequestResult.ResultPrevPageURI = CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeDocElement, Constants.PREV_PAGE_URI, Constants.URI_NOT_AVAILABLE);
aRequestResult.ResultNextPageURI = CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeDocElement, Constants.NEXT_PAGE_URI, Constants.URI_NOT_AVAILABLE);
XmlElement xeTimeEntry = null, xeClient = null, xeProject = null, xeTask = null;
DateTime dtDate = DateTime.Now;
// Grab the list of Time Entry nodes and loop through the elements...
XmlNodeList xnlTimeEntries = xeDocElement.GetElementsByTagName("TimeEntry");
int iCount = xnlTimeEntries.Count;
for (int iIndex = 0; iIndex < iCount; iIndex++)
{
// Grab the current element and the required sub-elements
xeTimeEntry = (XmlElement)xnlTimeEntries[iIndex];
xeClient = (XmlElement)xeTimeEntry.GetElementsByTagName("Client")[0];
xeProject = (XmlElement)xeTimeEntry.GetElementsByTagName("Project")[0];
xeTask = (XmlElement)xeTimeEntry.GetElementsByTagName("Task")[0];
// Parse the date
CDateHelper.GetDateFromAPIDateString(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "Date"), out dtDate);
// Add the current item to our list
lstTimeEntries.Add(new CTimeEntry(
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "ID"),
CDovicoID.Parse(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeClient, "ID")),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeClient, "Name"),
CDovicoID.Parse(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeProject, "ID")),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeProject, "Name"),
CDovicoID.Parse(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTask, "ID")),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTask, "Name"),
dtDate,
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "StartTime"),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "StopTime"),
double.Parse(CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "TotalHours"), Constants.CULTURE_US_ENGLISH),
CXMLHelper.GetChildNodeValue(xeTimeEntry, "Description")
));
} // End of the for(int iIndex = 0; iIndex < iCount; iIndex++) loop.
// Return the list of Employees to the caller
return(lstTimeEntries);
}