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/* 
 * Copyright 2015 Themistoklis Mavridis <themis.mavridis@issel.ee.auth.gr>.
 *
 * 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.
 */
package com.thesmartweb.swebrank;

import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.json.simple.parser.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * Class for the Yahoo! Search API
 * @author Themistoklis Mavridis
 */
public class YahooResults {

    /**
     * Method to get the links for a specific query
     * @param quer the query
     * @param yahoo_results_number the number of results to return
     * @param example_dir a directory to save the yahoo search engine response
     * @param config_path the directory with yahoo! api keys
     * @return an array with the urls of the results
     */
    public String[] Get(String quer, int yahoo_results_number, String example_dir, String config_path) {
        String[] links = new String[yahoo_results_number];
        try {
            quer = quer.replace("+", "%20");
            YahooConn yc = new YahooConn();
            String line = yc.connect(quer, config_path);
            if (!line.equalsIgnoreCase("fail")) {
                //write the json-ticket text to a file
                File json_t = new File(example_dir + "yahoo/" + quer + "/json" + ".txt");
                FileUtils.writeStringToFile(json_t, line);
                //initialize JSONparsing
                JSONparsing gg = new JSONparsing(yahoo_results_number);
                //get the links in an array
                links = gg.YahooJsonParsing(line, yahoo_results_number);
            }
            return links;
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(YahooResults.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            System.out.print("\n*********fail-yahoo results*********\n");
            return links;
        }

    }

    /**
     * Method to get the results number of a specific query from Yahoo! search api
     * @param quer the query to search for
     * @param config_path the directory to get the api keys
     * @return the amount of results
     */
    public Long Get_Results_Number(String quer, String config_path) {
        try {
            long results_number = 0;
            //we connect through 
            String check_quer = quer.substring(quer.length() - 1, quer.length());
            char plus = "+".charAt(0);
            char check_plus = check_quer.charAt(0);
            if (check_plus == plus) {
                quer = quer.substring(0, quer.length() - 1);
            }
            quer = quer.replace("+", "%20");
            //URL link_ur = new URL("http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/" + quer + "?appid=zrmigQ3V34FAyR9Nc4_EK91CP3Iw0Qa48QSgKqAvl2jLAo.rx97cmpgqW_ovGHvwjH.KgNQ-&format=json");
            //APIconn apicon = new APIconn();
            YahooConn yc = new YahooConn();
            String line = yc.connect(quer, config_path);
            //String line = apicon.connect(link_ur);
            if (!line.equalsIgnoreCase("fail")) {
                JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
                //Create the map
                Map json = (Map) parser.parse(line);
                // Get a set of the entries
                Set set = json.entrySet();
                Object[] arr = set.toArray();
                Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) arr[0];
                //****get to second level of yahoo json
                String you = entry.getValue().toString();
                json = (Map) parser.parse(you);
                set = json.entrySet();
                arr = set.toArray();
                entry = (Map.Entry) arr[1];
                you = entry.getValue().toString();
                json = (Map) parser.parse(you);
                set = json.entrySet();
                arr = set.toArray();
                entry = (Map.Entry) arr[3];
                you = entry.getValue().toString();
                results_number = Long.parseLong(you);
            }
            return results_number;
        } catch (ParseException | java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException | java.lang.NullPointerException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(YahooResults.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            long results_number = 0;
            return results_number;
        }
    }

}