[chronojump] Json GetNewsDatetime method

[Xavier de Blas <xaviblas src gnome org>]

commit e627d7d32fd7caa72b466d89c431016e66088714
Author: Xavier de Blas <xaviblas gmail com>
Date:   Tue Jan 19 12:03:58 2021 +0100

    Json GetNewsDatetime method

 src/json/json.cs | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/src/json/json.cs b/src/json/json.cs
index 18947617..c362524d 100644
--- a/src/json/json.cs
+++ b/src/json/json.cs
@@ -184,6 +184,46 @@ public class Json
                return true;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * ---- news stuff start ---->
+        */
+
+       public bool GetNewsDatetime ()
+       {
+               // Create a request using a URL that can receive a post.
+               if (! createWebRequest(requestType.GENERIC, "/getNewsDatetime"))
+                       return false;
+
+               // Set the Method property of the request to GET.
+               request.Method = "GET";
+
+               // Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
+               //request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
+
+               HttpWebResponse response;
+               if(! getHttpWebResponse (request, out response, "Could not get news datetime"))
+                       return false;
+
+               string responseFromServer;
+               using (var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
+               {
+                       responseFromServer = sr.ReadToEnd();
+               }
+
+               LogB.Information("getNewsServerDatetime:" + responseFromServer);
+
+               //responseFromServer comes as: "2020-01-18_12-13-00", need to remove double quotes because we 
do not want to insert them on sql
+
+               int startPos = responseFromServer.IndexOf('"') +1;
+               int endPos = responseFromServer.LastIndexOf('"') -1;
+               if(endPos > 0)
+                       responseFromServer = responseFromServer.Substring(startPos,endPos);
+
+               this.ResultMessage = responseFromServer;
+
+               return true;
+       }
+
        //get all the news, news class will decide if something have to be inserted or selected
        //called by pingThread at start
        public List<News> GetNews(List<News> newsAtDB_l)
@@ -288,6 +328,10 @@ public class Json
                return true;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * <---- news stuff end ----
+        */
+
        /*
         * if software just started, ping gets stuck by network problems, and user try to exit software,
         * thread.Abort doesn't kill the thread properly