productstable.cs

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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;

/// <summary>
/// Products - singleton pattern to avoid multiple retrievals from xml file
/// </summary>
public class ProductsTable: System.Data.DataTable
{
    private static ProductsTable _oneInstance = null;
    private static System.DateTime _snapshotTime = DateTime.Now;

    public static ProductsTable Instance()
    {
        if(_oneInstance == null)
        {
            _oneInstance = new ProductsTable();
        }
        //redo every 2 minutes
        if (Math.Abs(System.DateTime.Now.Minute - ProductsTable._snapshotTime.Minute) > 2)
        {
            _oneInstance = new ProductsTable();
        }
        return _oneInstance;
    }

	private ProductsTable()
	{
        _snapshotTime = DateTime.Now;
        ReloadTable();
	}

    public void ReloadTable()
    {
        _snapshotTime = DateTime.Now;

        this.Clear();

        //DataTable Schema

        DataColumn myPrimaryKeyCol = new DataColumn();
        myPrimaryKeyCol.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Int32");
        myPrimaryKeyCol.ColumnName = "product_id";
        myPrimaryKeyCol.ReadOnly = true;
        myPrimaryKeyCol.Unique = true;
        
        this.Columns.Add(myPrimaryKeyCol);        

        this.Columns.Add("name", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
        this.Columns.Add("price", System.Type.GetType("System.Decimal"));
        this.Columns.Add("shipping", System.Type.GetType("System.Decimal"));
        this.Columns.Add("handling", System.Type.GetType("System.Decimal"));
        this.Columns.Add("picture", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
        this.Columns.Add("description", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
        this.Columns.Add("taxable", System.Type.GetType("System.Boolean"));

        DataColumn[] myPrimaryKeyColumns = new DataColumn[1];
        myPrimaryKeyColumns[0] = this.Columns["product_id"];
        this.PrimaryKey = myPrimaryKeyColumns;   
        
        //GET xml Data
        string xmlPath = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["contentPath"] + "Products.xml";

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load(xmlPath);
        XmlNodeList nodeLst; // current nodelist working with

        nodeLst = doc.GetElementsByTagName("product");

        foreach (XmlNode node in nodeLst)
        {
            DataRow dr = this.NewRow();
            dr["product_id"] = int.Parse(node.ChildNodes[0].InnerText);
            dr["name"] = node.ChildNodes[1].InnerText;
            dr["price"] = decimal.Parse(node.ChildNodes[2].InnerText);
            dr["shipping"] = decimal.Parse(node.ChildNodes[3].InnerText);
            dr["handling"] = decimal.Parse(node.ChildNodes[4].InnerText);
            dr["picture"] = node.ChildNodes[5].InnerText;
            dr["description"] = node.ChildNodes[6].InnerText;
            dr["taxable"] = bool.Parse(node.ChildNodes[7].InnerText);
            this.Rows.Add(dr);            
        }
    }

}