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// Copyright  2005 by Omar Al Zabir. All rights are reserved.
// 
// If you like this code then feel free to go ahead and use it.
// The only thing I ask is that you don't remove or alter my copyright notice.
//
// Your use of this software is entirely at your own risk. I make no claims or
// warrantees about the reliability or fitness of this code for any particular purpose.
// If you make changes or additions to this code please mark your code as being yours.
// 
// website http://www.oazabir.com, email OmarAlZabir@gmail.com, msn oazabir@hotmail.com
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;

namespace RSSBlogAPI{
  using DotText;

  /// <summary>
  /// Blog API for .Text
  /// </summary>
  public class DotTextAPI : BlogAPIBase
  {
    public override bool HasCategories
    {
      get { return true; }
    }
    
    public override bool HasBlogId
    {
      get { return false; }
    }

    public override string EngineName
    {
      get { return ".TEXT SimpleBlogService"; }
    }

    public override string HelpText
    {
      get { return ".Text Blog sites"; }
    }

    public override void Test()
    {
      this.GetCategories();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Retrieve categories by calling the SimpleBlogService webservice
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public override Category [] GetCategories()
    {
      SBSSimpleBlogService svc = new SBSSimpleBlogService();
      svc.Url = this.Url;
      svc.Proxy = this.ProxyServer;

      string password = this.Password;

      string [] categories = svc.GetCategories( this.Username, password );

      Category [] output = new Category [ categories.Length ];

      for( int i=0; i<categories.Length; i++ )
        output[i] = new Category( 0, string.Empty, categories[i] );

      return output;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Post a blog entry by calling simple blog service
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="post"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public override string PostItem( Post post ) 
    {
      SBSSimpleBlogService svc = new SBSSimpleBlogService();
      svc.Proxy = this.ProxyServer;
      svc.Url = this.Url;

      string [] cats = new string[ post.Categories.Length ];
      for( int i=0; i<post.Categories.Length; i++ )
        cats[i] = post.Categories[i].Title;

      string password = this.Password;

      return svc.InsertCategoryPost( 
        this.Username,
        password,
        post.Date,
        post.Title,
        post.Text,
        cats ).ToString();
    }
  }
}