Serendipituos Code

On my previous post, I started refactoring a function that reads stock and dates, checks the data against Yahoo Finance and returns some data.

In this function, I take the Stock Ticker and the data and parse the URL to be evaluated by our web scrapper object.

private void btnStockSales_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{

     TickerDataCollection = new ObservableCollection();

      // no longer care where the data is coming, we just get the data
       var stockList = ReadStockData();

       List results = new List();

       foreach (var item in stockList)
          {
            int month = DateTime.Parse(item.Date.ToString()).Month;
            month -= 1;

            string url = "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s"+ item.Ticker+ "a=" +
            month.ToString() +"b" +
            DateTime.Parse(item.Date.ToString()).Day.ToString() + "c"+
            DateTime.Parse(item.Date.ToString()).Year.ToString() + "d=" +
            month.ToString() + "e3b=" +
            DateTime.Parse(item.Date.ToString()).Day.ToString() + "f= +
            DateTime.Parse(item.Date.ToString()).Year.ToString() "g =d"
           TickerData x = new TickerData();
           x.Ticker = item.Ticker;
           Scraper y = new Scraper();
           x = y.Scraping(url);
           if (x == null)
               {
                  x = new TickerData();
                  x.Found = false;
                }
           else
              {
                  x.Found = true;
              }
x.Ticker = item.Ticker;
            x.TransactionDate = item.Date.Value;

             TickerDataCollection.Add(new TickerData() { Ticker = x.Ticker, High = x.High, Low = x.Low, Found = x.Found, TransactionDate = x.TransactionDate });

               }

     LstStocks.DataContext = TickerDataCollection;

}

Now, this code can be taken out of this function and moved to the StockData Object

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   public class StockData
        {
            public string Ticker { get; set; }
            public DateTime? Date { get; set; }

             public string Url
            {
                get {

                int month = DateTime.Parse(Date.ToString()).Month;
                month -= 1; //yahoo starts month numbers with base 0
                string url = string.Concat("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s", Ticker,"a=", month.ToString(), "b=",
                    DateTime.Parse(Date.ToString()).Day.ToString(), "c=",
                    DateTime.Parse(Date.ToString()).Year.ToString(), "d=",
                    month.ToString(), "eb=",
                    DateTime.Parse(Date.ToString()).Day.ToString(), "f=",
                    DateTime.Parse(Date.ToString()).Year.ToString(), "g = d");

                return url;
            }
      }

This function itself could be refactored a little more, but that would later on, back to our original function

private void btnStockSales_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{

     TickerDataCollection = new ObservableCollection();

      // no longer care where the data is coming, we just get the data
       var stockList = ReadStockData();

       List results = new List();

       foreach (var item in stockList)
          {

           TickerData x = new TickerData();
           x.Ticker = item.Ticker;
           Scraper y = new Scraper();
           x = y.Scraping(item.Url);
           if (x == null)
               {
                  x = new TickerData();
                  x.Found = false;
                }
           else
              {
                  x.Found = true;
              }
            x.Ticker = item.Ticker;
            x.TransactionDate = item.Date.Value;

             TickerDataCollection.Add(new TickerData() { Ticker = x.Ticker, High = x.High, Low = x.Low, Found = x.Found, TransactionDate = x.TransactionDate });

               }

     LstStocks.DataContext = TickerDataCollection;

}

You can now start to see a cleaner code that does not deal with details, if the URL was to change, you can extend the StockData class.