aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs')
-rw-r--r--Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs50
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs b/Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d490cb..0000000
--- a/Aggregator/Parser/Parser.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Xml.Linq;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using Aggregator.Classes;
-
-namespace Aggregator.Parser {
- /// <summary>
- /// Class to provide Parsing services
- /// </summary>
- public static class Parser {
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Parse a single xml code, given a config, to Articles
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="xml">XML code from an RSS feed</param>
- /// <param name="config">Config that tells parser where to get relevant information</param>
- /// <returns>Parsed articles from XML code</returns>
- public static IEnumerable<Article> Parse(string xml, Config config) {
-
- return XDocument.Parse(xml).Descendants("item") //make an XDocument out of the xml
- .Select(articles => articles.Descendants().ToArray()) //turn each 'item' into it's respective descendants
- .Select(article => new Article() //make a new article from each 'item' article, using config for pointers
- {
- Source = config.Source,
- Title = article[config.Title].Value,
- Description = article[config.Description].Value,
- ArticleLink = article[config.ArticleLink].Value,
- ImageLink = article[config.ImageLink].Attribute("url").Value,
- PublishDate = DateTime.Parse(article[config.PublishDate].Value)
- }).Distinct(); //remove any duplicates
- }
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Parse multiple xml sets, given a similar set of configs, to Articles
- /// </summary>
- /// <param name="xmls">Array of XML sets to parse for Articles</param>
- /// <param name="configs">List of configs to parse for corresponding xml sets</param>
- /// <returns>Parsed articles from every XML set</returns>
- public static IEnumerable<Article> ParseMultiple(string[] xmls, List<Config> configs) {
- if (configs.Count == 0 || xmls.Length == 0 || (xmls.Length != configs.Count)) {
- return null; //for bad cases
- }
- else {
- return xmls.Select((xml, index) => Parse(xml, configs[index])) //Parse each item
- .SelectMany(i => i); //remove distinctions between each set of articles
- }
- }
- }
-} \ No newline at end of file