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Download financial data, managing online portfolio or using Search BOSS from Yahoo! with .NET
' ******************************************************************************
' ** 
' **  Yahoo Finance Managed
' **  Written by Marius Häusler 2010
' **  It would be pleasant, if you contact me when you are using this code.
' **  Contact: YahooFinanceManaged@gmail.com
' **  Project Home: http://code.google.com/p/yahoo-finance-managed/
' **  
' ******************************************************************************
' **  
' **  Copyright 2010 Marius Häusler
' **  
' **  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
' **  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
' **  You may obtain a copy of the License at
' **  
' **    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
' **  
' **  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
' **  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
' **  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
' **  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
' **  limitations under the License.
' ** 
' ******************************************************************************


Namespace Base

    ''' <summary>
    ''' Base class for downloading String data
    ''' </summary>
    ''' <remarks></remarks>
    Public MustInherit Class DataDownload
        Inherits Download
        Friend Event AsyncDataBaseDownloadCompleted(ByVal sender As Download, ByVal ba As DataDownloadCompletedEventArgs)
        Friend mHelper As New MyHelper
        Private mTextEncoding As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.Default
        ''' <summary>
        ''' The used encoding informations
        ''' </summary>
        ''' <value></value>
        ''' <returns></returns>
        ''' <remarks></remarks>
        Public Property TextEncoding() As System.Text.Encoding
            Get
                Return mTextEncoding
            End Get
            Set(ByVal value As System.Text.Encoding)
                If value IsNot Nothing Then : mTextEncoding = value
                Else : mTextEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Default
                End If
            End Set
        End Property
        Friend Overloads Function Download(ByVal url As String) As DataResponse
            Dim text As String = String.Empty
            Dim resp As TimeoutWebClientResponse = MyBase.Download(url)
            If resp.Connection.State = ConnectionState.Success Then
                text = Me.StreamToStringAndClose(resp.Result, Me.TextEncoding)
            End If
            Return New DataResponse(resp.Connection, text)
        End Function
        Private Sub BaseAsyncDownload_Completed(ByVal sender As Download, ByVal e As BaseDownloadCompletedEventArgs) Handles MyBase.AsyncBaseDownloadCompleted
            Dim text As String = String.Empty
            If e.Response.Connection.State = ConnectionState.Success Then
                text = Me.StreamToStringAndClose(e.Response.Result, Me.TextEncoding)
            End If
            Dim args As New DataDownloadCompletedEventArgs(e.UserArgs, New DataResponse(e.Response.Connection, text))
            RaiseEvent AsyncDataBaseDownloadCompleted(Me, args)
        End Sub
        Private Function StreamToStringAndClose(ByVal stream As IO.Stream, ByVal encoding As System.Text.Encoding) As String
            Dim res As String = String.Empty
            If stream IsNot Nothing Then
                Dim enc As System.Text.Encoding = encoding
                If enc Is Nothing Then enc = System.Text.Encoding.Default
                Using sr As New IO.StreamReader(stream, enc)
                    res = sr.ReadToEnd
                End Using
                mHelper.CloseStream(stream)
            End If
            Return res
        End Function
        Friend Sub New()
        End Sub
    End Class

    Friend Class DataDownloadCompletedEventArgs
        Inherits DownloadCompletedEventArgs
        Public Overloads ReadOnly Property Response() As DataResponse
            Get
                Return TryCast(MyBase.Response, DataResponse)
            End Get
        End Property
        Public Sub New(ByVal userArgs As Object, ByVal response As DataResponse)
            MyBase.New(userArgs, response)
        End Sub
    End Class

    Friend Class DataResponse
        Inherits Response
        Public Overloads ReadOnly Property Result() As String
            Get
                Return MyBase.Result.ToString
            End Get
        End Property
        Public Sub New(ByVal info As ConnectionInfo, ByVal result As String)
            MyBase.New(info, result)
        End Sub
    End Class

End Namespace

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