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Books.ConsoleApp/Books.Console.csproj

@@ -5,4 +5,19 @@
     <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Compile Remove="SearchByAuthor.cs" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NETCore.App" Version="2.2.8" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.3" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <None Update="books.json">
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </None>
+  </ItemGroup>
+
 </Project>

Books.ConsoleApp/Books.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Books.ConsoleApp
+{
+    public class BooksCollection
+    {
+        public Book[] Books { get; set; }
+    }
+
+    public class Book
+    {
+        public string[] categories;
+        public string author { get; set; }
+        public string country { get; set; }
+        public string imageLink { get; set; }
+        public string language { get; set; }
+        public string link { get; set; }
+        public int pages { get; set; }
+        public string title { get; set; }
+        public int year { get; set; }
+    }
+
+    public interface IBooksSource
+    {
+        Book[] Read();
+    }
+
+    public class BooksJsonSource : IBooksSource
+    {
+        private string booksJsonFile;
+
+        public BooksJsonSource(string booksFile = "books.json")
+        {
+            booksJsonFile = booksFile;
+        }
+
+        public Book[] Read()
+        {
+            var rawJsonBooks = File.ReadAllTextAsync(booksJsonFile)
+                // this (the .Result)is blocking the "UI"/"Main" thread - done for simplicity
+                // but utterly and very and fundamentaly wrong for production apps!
+                .Result;
+
+            return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Book[]>(rawJsonBooks);
+        }
+    }
+}

Books.ConsoleApp/Output.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Books.ConsoleApp
+{
+    public class Output
+    {
+        private static List<BooksByAuthor> BooksByAuthorCatalog;
+
+        public static void BooksByAuthor(IEnumerable<Book> books)
+        {
+            BooksByAuthorCatalog = new List<BooksByAuthor>();
+
+            foreach(var book in books)
+            {
+                if (AuthorIsAlreadyCataloged(book.author))
+                {
+                    // there are some(1 or more) books by this author already found and catalogued
+                    var authorAndBooks = LocateAuthorAlreadyCataloged(book.author);
+                    authorAndBooks.Books.Add(book);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    CatalogueNewAuthor(book);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // now we have an list that has all the authors catalogued
+            OutputBooksByAuthor();
+        }
+
+        private static bool AuthorIsAlreadyCataloged(string author)
+        {
+            return BooksByAuthorCatalog.Any(ba => ba.Author == author);
+        }
+
+        private static BooksByAuthor LocateAuthorAlreadyCataloged(string author)
+        {
+            return BooksByAuthorCatalog.First(ba => ba.Author == author);
+        }
+
+        private static void CatalogueNewAuthor(Book b)
+        {
+            // there are NONE books by this author already found and cataloged
+
+            var newBooksList = new List<Book> { b };
+            var authorAndBooks = new BooksByAuthor(b.author, newBooksList);
+
+            BooksByAuthorCatalog.Add(authorAndBooks);
+        }
+
+
+        private static void OutputBooksByAuthor()
+        {
+            foreach(var ba in BooksByAuthorCatalog)
+            {
+                System.Console.Write("Author: {0,-28} Books: ", ba.Author);
+                foreach (var book in ba.Books)
+                {
+                    System.Console.Write(book.title + ", ");
+                }
+                System.Console.Write(Environment.NewLine);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public class BooksByAuthor
+    {
+        public readonly string Author;
+        public readonly List<Book> Books;
+
+        public BooksByAuthor(string author, List<Book> books)
+        {
+            Author = author;
+            Books = books;
+        }
+    }
+}

Books.ConsoleApp/Program.cs

@@ -2,107 +2,70 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics.Contracts;
 using System.Globalization;
+using System.Linq;
+using Books.ConsoleApp;
 
 namespace Books.Console
 {
     class Program
     {
-        List<BooksByAuthor> BooksByAuthorCatalogue = null;
+        private static IBooksSource BooksSource = new BooksJsonSource();
+        private static List<BooksByAuthor> BooksByAuthorCatalog = null;
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
-            IEnumerable<Book> books = BookSource.Read();
+            IEnumerable<Book> books = BooksSource.Read();
-            BooksByAuthorCatalogue = new List<BooksByAuthor>();
+            BooksByAuthorCatalog = new List<BooksByAuthor>();
 
-            foreach (var book in books)
-            {
-                if (AuthorIsAlreadyCataloged(book.author))
-                {
-                    // there are some(1 or more) books by this author already found and catalogued
-                    var authorCatalogueIndex = LocateAuthorAlreadyCataloged(book.author);
 
-                    var existingBooks = BooksByAuthorCatalogue[authorCatalogIndex].Books;
+            while (true)
-                    existingBooks.Add(book);
+            {
+                System.Console.WriteLine("\nActions available:");
+                System.Console.WriteLine("1 - Output all books by author (Section 2)");
+                System.Console.WriteLine("2 - Search books by title (Section 3)");
+                System.Console.WriteLine("Any other key - Exit");
+
+                var key = System.Console.ReadKey();
+                switch (key.KeyChar)
+                {
+                    case '1': Output.BooksByAuthor(BooksSource.Read()); break;
+                    case '2': DoSearch(); break;
+                    default: return;
+                }
+            }
+
+        }
+
+        public static void DoSearch()
+        {
+            var books = BooksSource.Read();
+            while (true)
+            {
+                System.Console.WriteLine("\nSearch by book title or a part of it. \n^^^^Type 'exit' to go back^^^^");
+                var searchTerm = System.Console.ReadLine();
+                if (searchTerm == "exit")
+                {
+                    return;
+                }
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTerm))
+                {
+                    var booksByAuthor = Search.ByTitle(books, searchTerm);
+
+                    if (booksByAuthor.Count() == 0)
+                    {
+                        System.Console.WriteLine($"No books found for '{searchTerm}'");
                     }
                     else
                     {
-                    CatalogueNewAuthor(book);
+                        foreach (var b in booksByAuthor)
-                }
-
-            }
-
-        }
-
-        private static bool AuthorIsAlreadyCataloged(string author)
                         {
-            var authorAlreadyCatalogued = false;
+                            System.Console.WriteLine($"{b.author}: {b.title}");
-
+                        }
-            // we'll iterate over the catalogue to find the author - if athors's already been cataloged
-
-            foreach (var entry in BooksByAuthorCatalogue)
-            {
-                if (entry.author == author)
-                {
-                    authorAlreadyCatalogued = true;
-                    break;
                     }
                 }
 
-            return authorAlreadyCatalogued;
+                System.Console.WriteLine("----------------------");
-
-        }
-
-        private static int LocateAuthorAlreadyCataloged(string author)
-        {
-            var authorCatalogIndex = 0;
-
-            // We'll iterate over the cataloge to find the author's index
-            for (int j = 0; j < BooksByAuthorCatalogue.Count; j++)
-            {
-                var entry = BooksByAuthorCatalogue[j];
-                if (entry.Author == author)
-                {
-                    authorCatalogIndex = j;
-                    break;
             }
         }
 
     }
-
-        private static void CatalogueNewAuthor(Book b)
-        {
-            // there are NONE books by this author already found and cataloged
-
-            var newBookList = new List<Book> { b };
-            var authorAndBooks = new BooksByAuthor(b.Author, newBookList);
-
-            BooksByAuthorCatalogue.Add(authorAndBooks);
-        }
-
-        private static void OutputBooksByAuthor()
-        {
-            foreach (var ba in BooksByAuthorCatalogue)
-            {
-                System.Console.Write("Author: {0, -28} Books: ", ba.Author);
-                foreach (var book in ba.Books)
-                {
-                    System.Console.Write(book.title + ", ");
-                }
-                System.Console.Write(Environment.NewLine);
-            }
-        }
-
-    }
-
-    public class BooksByAuthor
-    {
-        public readonly string Author;
-        public readonly List<Book> Books;
-
-        public BooksByAuthor(string author, List<Book> books)
-        {
-            Author = author;
-            Books = books;
-        }
-    }
-
 }

Books.ConsoleApp/SearchByAuthor.cs

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ using System.Data.SqlTypes;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 
-namespace Books.Console
+namespace Books.ConsoleApp
 {
     public static  class SearchByAuthor
     {
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ namespace Books.Console
     {
     }
 
-    public class Book
+    //public class Book
-    {
+    //{
 
-    }
+    //}
 }

Books.ConsoleApp/SearchByTitle.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace Books.ConsoleApp
+{
+
+    public class Search
+    {
+        public static IEnumerable<Book> ByTitle(IEnumerable<Book> books, string titlePartial)
+        {
+            var titlePartialLowercased = titlePartial.ToLower();
+            
+            return books
+                .Where(b =>
+                {
+                    var bookTitleLowercased = b.title.ToLower();
+                    return bookTitleLowercased.Contains(titlePartialLowercased);
+                });
+        }
+
+        public static IEnumerable<Book> SuggestRandom(IEnumerable<Book> books, int count = 5)
+        {
+            throw new NotImplementedException();
+        }
+    }
+}