Athena - A LINQ to flickr API

Source code checked in, #23127

mehfuzh — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:54:53 GMT

Fixing In XmlElement issue after previous change.

Source code checked in, #23100

mehfuzh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:23:39 GMT

Removed Duplicate method

Source code checked in, #23098

mehfuzh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:19:54 GMT

Fixed for Xml node issue with Popular tags, Authentication

Updated Release: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:40:26 GMT

This release contains new features, updates, fixes and development enhancements. Also, this is the first release over project naming to Athena.

Newly covered
1. flickr.photos.setMeta, through photo update.
2. flickr.photos.comments.edit for comment update.

For example , lets update the photo title.

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

New Query Option that can be used with Search in the where clause

Photo.ExtrasOption
/// A comma-delimited list of extra information to fetch for each returned record.
/// Currently supported fields are: license, dateupload, datetaken, ownername, iconserver,
/// originalformat, lastupdate, geo, tags, machine_tags, views, media.
/// Use ExtrasOption enum with | to set your options. Ex
/// p.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Views | ExtrasOption.DateTaken | ExtrasOption.DateUpload)

Photo.SafeSearch

/// Options are Safe, Moderate and Restricted.

Photo.WebUrl
/// Contains the URL for the photo page at flickr.

Different ways for authenticating users. For gettting the photos from my stream i would do

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();

Few fixes
Fixed UploadedOn, TakenOn and PostedOn invalid date for photos and comments,
Fixed Token creation problem for IE7

Development
Added Single click build script though build.bat (cook your own build with a single click) which is
provided in the src. It fires up NAant build files that builds the API and does a unit test.
NAant and Nunit stripped down version is bundled with the src in the ThridParty folder.

Note : Added New version of Typemock which is 5. To cook a assembly using the build script you dont need to install anything, but you can get a open source version to run it in VS.

Refactor
Replaced SortedDictionary with LINQ orderby for orderby used for photos.
LINQ orderby looks nicer over SortedDictionary , take a look at my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/mefhuzh
Refactored Respository . Ex. removed unecessary ToList for LINQ queries and added RestTocolleciton Builder for buidling object from REST response.

Distribution updated on 1st August, 2008
Check out the readme in the distribution for more

Updated Release: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:36:32 GMT

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();

Few fixes
Fixed UploadedOn, TakenOn and PostedOn invalid date for photos and comments,
Fixed Token creation problem for IE7

Development
Added New version of Typemock which is 4.3.1. To run the test in your dev pc, you need to install
a community version of it.Hopefully, Typemock will come up with a standalone installtion for community edtion as well :-).
Added Single click build script though build.bat (cook your own build with a single click) which is
provided in the src. It fires up NAant build files that builds the API and does a unit test.
NAant and Nunit stripped down version is bundled with the src in the ThridParty folder.

IF you use Typemock other than the current version, change path in Main.Build accordingly. Without Typemock it will still do
the build, but will skip the unit test.

Refactor
Replaced SortedDictionary with LINQ orderby for orderby used for photos.
LINQ orderby looks nicer over SortedDictionary , take a look at my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/mefhuzh
Refactored Respository . Ex. removed unecessary ToList for LINQ queries and added RestTocolleciton Builder for buidling object from REST response.

Distribution updated on 1st August, 2008
Check out the readme in the distribution for more

Source code checked in, #22865

mehfuzh — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:09:05 GMT

Updated the IHttpCallBase

Source code checked in, #22854

mehfuzh — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:41:05 GMT

1. Removed the LINQToXml dependecies for internal xml processing. rather used custom .net framwork clases and CollectionBuilder to do that task. 2. Mono 1.9.1 compatibility.

Source code checked in, #22684

mehfuzh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:20:51 GMT

Added missing files

Source code checked in, #22612

mehfuzh — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:43:48 GMT

Converted NAnat build scripts with MSBuild. Added Typmock autoDeploy feature with make.build to build, test and make package with single click.

Source code checked in, #22087

mehfuzh — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:53:21 GMT

Updated with new LinqExtender assembly that supports GetItem in PhotoQuery for unique item get by photoId (Not a required patch)

Updated Release: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:16:26 GMT

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();

Source code checked in, #21729

mehfuzh — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:37:48 GMT

New LinqExtender assembly

Source code checked in, #21718

mehfuzh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:42:13 GMT

Updated the build script to zip the deployment package. Added readme.txt for Linq.flickr.Lib to source control

Source code checked in, #21714

mehfuzh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:19:33 GMT

Changed assembly version for a patch release. Enabled authencated calls for logged in user in search. Updated the Test project.

Source code checked in, #21688

mehfuzh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:56:45 GMT

Excluded , unwanted query parameter for flickr.photos.Search

Source code checked in, #21687

mehfuzh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:43:36 GMT

Fixed the Extas issue . Updated with latest LinqExtender Production code => going to release.

Source code checked in, #21654

mehfuzh — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:19:55 GMT

Fixed ExtrasOptions issue with photo.Tags

Released: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:32:12 GMT

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();

Updated Release: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:32:12 GMT

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();

Updated Release: Athena (1.4) (Jul 29, 2008)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:23:01 GMT

 
Photo photo= (from p in context.Photots
where p.id == 123
select p).Single();
 
photo.Title = This is new Title.
 
// to make the update just do the following
coment.SubmitChanges();
 
//This will fire the Update in LinqExtender where logic for flickr.photos.setMeta is written.
//Flickr api support only alteration of Title and Description, more info can be found at flickr.photos.setMeta

Similarly, you can update comment like

 
Comment comment = (from c in context.Photots.Comments
where c.Id == "1234"
select c).Single();
 
comment.Text = "This is a updated comment.";
coment.SubmitChanges();

New Query Option that can be used with Search in the where clause

Photo.ExtrasOption
/// A comma-delimited list of extra information to fetch for each returned record.
/// Currently supported fields are: license, dateupload, datetaken, ownername, iconserver,
/// originalformat, lastupdate, geo, tags, machine_tags, views, media.
/// Use ExtrasOption enum with | to set your options. Ex
/// p.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Views | ExtrasOption.DateTaken | ExtrasOption.DateUpload)

Photo.SafeSearch

/// Options are Safe, Moderate and Restricted.

Different ways for authenticating users. For gettting the photos from my stream i would do

 
  var query = from photo in context.Photos
              where photo.ViewMode = ViewMode.Owner && photos.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Date_Posted | ExtrasOptions.Views)
              select photo;

This will automatically fire a the authentication process

Or before doing it i can manually call.

context.Authenticate();

After authentication process successive call will return AuthToken { ID, Perm, UserId}

Similarly, i can clear token by

context.ClearToken();