private PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse ParseDictionaryApiRequest(HttpWebRequest webRequest)
{
try
{
using (HttpWebResponse webresponse = webRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
if (webresponse.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
throw new Exception(String.Format(
"Server error (HTTP {0}: {1}).",
webresponse.StatusCode,
webresponse.StatusDescription)
);
}
var reader = new StreamReader(webresponse.GetResponseStream());
string webResponseBody = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse>(webResponseBody);
return(response);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception("Error parsing the api request: " + e.Message + " " + e.StackTrace);
}
}
private Dictionary <WordEnum, string> ConvertPearsonResponseToDictionary(PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse pearsonsDictionaryApiResponse)
{
Dictionary <WordEnum, string> wordDictionary = new Dictionary <WordEnum, string>
{
{ WordEnum.Word, null },
{ WordEnum.WordPartOfSpeech, null },
{ WordEnum.WordDefinition, null },
{ WordEnum.WordExample, null },
};
try
{
foreach (PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse.ResultSet resultSet in pearsonsDictionaryApiResponse.Results)
{
if (resultSet.Datasets.Contains("laad3"))
{
try { wordDictionary[WordEnum.Word] = resultSet.Headword; } catch { }
try { wordDictionary[WordEnum.WordPartOfSpeech] = resultSet.PartOfSpeech; } catch { }
try { wordDictionary[WordEnum.WordDefinition] = resultSet.Senses[0].Definition; } catch { }
try { wordDictionary[WordEnum.WordExample] = resultSet.Senses[0].Examples[0].Text; } catch { }
}
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception("There was an error converting the pearson api response to a dictionary: " + e.Message + " " + e.StackTrace);
}
return(wordDictionary);
}
public Dictionary <WordEnum, string> GetWordDictionaryFromString(string word)
{
// create dictionary api request
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = CreateDictionaryApiRequest(word);
// parse the api request into response
PearsonsDictionaryApiResponse dictionaryApiResponse = ParseDictionaryApiRequest(httpWebRequest);
// read the response into consumable dictionary - the standard response for this interface
Dictionary <WordEnum, string> responseDictionary = ConvertPearsonResponseToDictionary(dictionaryApiResponse);
return(responseDictionary);
}
