win8phoneApp/CampusAppWP8/CampusAppWPortalLib8/Model/RSS/RSSModel.cs

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="RSSModel.cs" company="BTU/IIT">
//     Company copyright tag.
// </copyright>
// <author>fiedlchr</author>
// <sience>24.06.2013</sience>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace CampusAppWPortalLib8.Model.RSS
{
    using System;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Xml.Serialization;
    
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains the RSS feed information.
    /// </summary>
    public class RSSModel
    {
        #region Member

        /// <summary>
        /// Index of this object.
        /// </summary>
        private int index = -1;
        
        /// <summary>
        /// Title of the fees
        /// </summary>
        private string title;

        /// <summary>
        /// Description text of the feed.
        /// </summary>
        private string text;
        
        /// <summary>
        /// Timestamp (publication date) of the event or news.
        /// </summary>
        private DateTime timestamp;
        
        /// <summary>
        /// Url of the feed.
        /// </summary>
        private string link;

        #endregion

        #region Property

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the title of the feed.
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("title")]
        public string Title
        {
            get 
            { 
                return this.title; 
            }

            set 
            {
                if (this.title != value)
                {
                    this.title = value;
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the text of the feed.
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("description")]
        public string Text
        {
            get 
            { 
                return this.text; 
            }

            set
            {
                if (this.text != this.HTMLUnicodeToString(value))
                {
                    this.text = this.HTMLUnicodeToString(value);
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the timestamp of the feed as string.
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("pubDate")]
        public string Timestamp
        {
            get 
            { 
                return this.timestamp.ToString("R"); 
            }

            set
            {
                if (this.timestamp != DateTime.Parse(value))
                {
                    this.timestamp = DateTime.Parse(value);
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the timestamp of the feed as DateTime object.
        /// </summary>
        public DateTime DTTimestamp
        {
            get 
            { 
                return this.timestamp; 
            }
            
            set 
            { 
                this.timestamp = value; 
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the date of the timestamp as string.
        /// example: Mon, 25.06.2013.
        /// </summary>
        public string Date
        {
            get 
            { 
                return string.Format("{0:ddd, dd.MM.yyyy}", this.timestamp); 
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the date of the timestamp as string.
        /// example: 25.06.
        /// </summary>
        public string ShortDate
        {
            get
            {
                return string.Format("{0:dd.MM.}", this.timestamp);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the time of the timestamp as string.
        /// example: 12:56.
        /// </summary>
        public string Time
        {
            get 
            { 
                return string.Format("{0:h:mm} Uhr", this.timestamp); 
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the link/url of the feed.
        /// </summary>
        [XmlElement("link")]
        public string Link
        {
            get 
            { 
                return this.link; 
            }

            set 
            {
                if (this.link != value)
                {
                    this.link = value;
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the ListIndex.
        /// </summary>
        public int Index 
        {
            get
            {
                return this.index;
            }

            set
            {
                this.index = value;
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region Method

        #region public

        /// <summary>
        /// Comparing function for DateTime timestamps.
        /// (currently unused)
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item1">first item</param>
        /// <param name="item2">second item</param>
        /// <returns>-1 if item2 is older then item1, otherwise 0</returns>
        public static int CompareTimeStamp(RSSModel item1, RSSModel item2)
        {
            if (item1.DTTimestamp > item2.DTTimestamp)
            {
                return -1;
            }
            else
            {
                return 0;
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region private

        /// <summary>
        /// Remove or transform html-unicode specific tags into ASCII.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="htmluni">html string</param>
        /// <returns>ASCII string</returns>
        private string HTMLUnicodeToString(string htmluni)
        {
            StringBuilder retValue = new StringBuilder();

            for (int i = 0; i < htmluni.Length; i++)
            {
                switch (htmluni[i])
                {
                    // beginning tag of the unicode
                    case '&':
                        int startOff = i + 2;
                        //// sear closing tag of the unicode
                        int endOff = htmluni.IndexOf(';', startOff);
                        //// get and parse value inbetween
                        string sub = htmluni.Substring(startOff, endOff - startOff);
                        int charVal = int.Parse(sub);

                        switch (charVal)
                        {
                            // if the unicode value is 128 (€)
                            case 128:
                                retValue.Append('€');
                                break;

                            default:
                                retValue.Append((char)charVal);
                                break;
                        }

                        // set the current index to the end of the unicode tag
                        i = endOff;
                        break;

                    case '<':
                        // ignoring <..> html tags
                        i = htmluni.IndexOf('>', i);
                        break;

                    case '\t':
                        // removing tabs
                        break;

                    default:
                        // adding other characters to the return string
                        retValue.Append(htmluni[i]);
                        break;
                }
            }

            return retValue.ToString();
        }

        #endregion

        #endregion
    }
}