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Windows Phone Crosswords

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Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace Crosswords.WebHelper
{
    public class HtmlParser
    {
        const string msgFormat = "table[{0}], tr[{1}], td[{2}], code: {3}";
        const string table_pattern = "<table.*?>(.*?)</table>";
        const string tr_pattern = "<tr>(.*?)</tr>";
        const string td_pattern = "<td.*?>(.*?)</td>";
        const string code_pattern = "<code>(.*?)</code>";

        string html = string.Empty;
        WebRequest request;

        public HtmlParser(int size, Action<string> onSuccess, Action onFailure, Action<int> onProgressChanged
            )
        {
            GetPuzzleHtml(size, 
                //onSucess
                (html) =>
                {
                    this.html = html;
                    onSuccess(html);
                },
                //onFailure
                () =>
                {
                    onFailure();
                },
                //onProgressChanged
                (percentage) =>
                {
                    onProgressChanged(percentage);
                }
            );
        }

        public HtmlParser(string html)
        {
            this.html = html;
        }

        private List<string> GetContents(string input, string pattern)
        {
            MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(input, pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
            List<string> contents = new List<string>();
            foreach (Match match in matches)
                contents.Add(match.Value);

            return contents;
        }

        public string Parse()
        {
            List<string> tableContents = GetContents(html, table_pattern);
            StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
            int tableIndex = 0;
            foreach (string tableContent in tableContents)
            {
                List<string> trContents = GetContents(tableContent, tr_pattern);
                int trIndex = 0;
                foreach (string trContent in trContents)
                {
                    List<string> tdContents = GetContents(trContent, td_pattern);
                    int tdIndex = 0;
                    foreach (string tdContent in tdContents)
                    {
                        Match code_match = Regex.Match(tdContent, code_pattern);
                        string code_value = code_match.Groups[1].Value.Replace("&nbsp;", "");
                        
                        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(code_value))
                            code_value = " ";

                        ret.Append(code_value);
                        tdIndex++;
                    }
                    ret.Append("");
                    trIndex++;
                }
                tableIndex++;
            }

            var words = ret.ToString();

            return words;
        }

        public void GetPuzzleHtml(int size, Action<string> onSuccess, Action onFailure, Action<int> onProgressChanged)
        {
            var ret = string.Empty;
            var tileMap = string.Empty;

            switch (size)
            {
                case 4:
                    tileMap = string.Concat(
                        "0000",
                        "0000",
                        "0000",
                        "0000");
                    break;
                case 7:
                    tileMap = string.Concat(
                        "0000011",
                        "0000100",
                        "0000100",
                        "0110000",
                        "1000000",
                        "0000000",
                        "0000100");
                    break;
                case 10:
                    tileMap = string.Concat(
                        "0000110001",
                        "0000100001",
                        "0000000000",
                        "0000000000",
                        "1110001000",
                        "1000000100",
                        "0001000011",
                        "0000100000",
                        "0000010000",
                        "1000000000");
                    break;
            }

            var queryString = GetRequestQueryStringBySize(size, tileMap);
            
            var url = string.Format("http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/cgi-bin/theme-cword{0}", queryString.AppendFormat("&t={0}", DateTime.Now.Millisecond));

            //if (request != null)
            //{
            //    request.Abort();
            //}

            //request = WebRequest.Create(url);

            //request.BeginGetResponse(r =>
            //{
            //    var response = request.EndGetResponse(r);

            //    using (var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            //    {
            //        endGetResponse(sr.ReadToEnd());
            //    }
            //}, null);

            DownloadString
                (url,
                //onSuccess
                (html) =>
                {
                    onSuccess(html);
                },
                //onFailure
                () =>
                {
                    onFailure();
                },
                //progress
                (percentage) =>
                {
                    onProgressChanged(percentage);
                });
        }

        private void DownloadString(string url, Action<string> onDownloadCompleted, Action onConnectionFailed, Action<int> onProgressChanged)
        {
            try
            {
                var webClient = new WebClient();
                webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    try
                    {
                        onDownloadCompleted(e.Result);
                    }
                    catch (Exception exc)
                    {
                        onConnectionFailed();
                    }
                };
                webClient.DownloadProgressChanged += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    onProgressChanged(e.ProgressPercentage);
                };
                webClient.AllowReadStreamBuffering = true;
                webClient.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(url), webClient);
            }
            catch (Exception exc)
            {
                onConnectionFailed();
            }
        }

        private static StringBuilder GetRequestQueryStringBySize(int size, string tileMap)
        {
            var queryString = new StringBuilder();
            for (var row = 0; row < size; row++)
            {
                for (var col = 0; col < size; col++)
                {
                    var val = tileMap[row * size + col];
                    if (val == '0')
                    {
                        var prefix = "&";
                        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(queryString.ToString()))
                        {
                            prefix = "?";
                        }
                        queryString.AppendFormat("{0}r{1}c{2}=", prefix, row, col);
                    }
                }
            }
            return queryString;
        }
    }
}

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