using 51Degrees reverse geocoding alongside 51Degrees device detection.This example is available in full on GitHub.
To run this example, you will need to create a resource key. The resource key is used as short-hand to store the particular set of properties you are interested in as well as any associated license keys that entitle you to increased request limits and/or paid-for properties.
You can create a resource key using the 51Degrees Configurator.
Required NuGet Dependencies:
- FiftyOne.GeoLocation
- FiftyOne.DeviceDetection
The example shows how to:
- Build new cloud-based geolocation, and device detection engines, along with the cloud request engine on which they rely.
- Build a new Pipeline containing the engines which were just created.
- Create a new FlowData instance ready to be populated with evidence for the Pipeline.
- Process a longitude and latitude and User-Agent to retrieve the values associated with the location and device for the selected properties.
- Extract the value of a property as a string from the results.
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using FiftyOne.DeviceDetection;
using FiftyOne.DeviceDetection.Cloud.FlowElements;
using FiftyOne.Pipeline.CloudRequestEngine.FlowElements;
using FiftyOne.Pipeline.Core.FlowElements;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace CombiningServices
{
public class Program
{
public class Example
{
private static ILoggerFactory _loggerFactory = new LoggerFactory();
private static HttpClient _httpClient = new HttpClient();
private static string mobileUserAgent =
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SAMSUNG SM-G960U) " +
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/10.1 " +
"Chrome/71.0.3578.99 Mobile Safari/537.36";
private static string latitude = "51.458048";
private static string longitude = "-0.9822207999999999";
public void Run(string resourceKey, string cloudEndPoint = "")
{
Console.WriteLine($"Using resource key {resourceKey}");
var cloudRequestEngineBuilder =
new CloudRequestEngineBuilder(_loggerFactory, _httpClient)
.SetResourceKey(resourceKey);
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(cloudEndPoint) == false)
{
cloudRequestEngineBuilder.SetEndPoint(cloudEndPoint);
}
var cloudRequestEngine = cloudRequestEngineBuilder
.Build();
var deviceDetectionEngine =
new DeviceDetectionCloudEngineBuilder(_loggerFactory)
.Build();
var locationEngine =
new GeoLocationCloudEngineBuilder(
_loggerFactory)
.Build(GeoLocationProvider.FiftyOneDegrees);
using (var pipeline =
new PipelineBuilder(_loggerFactory)
.AddFlowElement(cloudRequestEngine)
.AddFlowElement(deviceDetectionEngine)
.AddFlowElement(locationEngine)
.Build())
{
using (var data = pipeline.CreateFlowData())
{
data.AddEvidence("header.user-agent", mobileUserAgent);
data.AddEvidence("query.51D_Pos_latitude", latitude);
data.AddEvidence("query.51D_Pos_longitude", longitude);
data.Process();
Console.Write($"Awaiting response");
CancellationTokenSource cancellationSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
Task.Run(() => { OutputUntilCancelled(".", 1000, cancellationSource.Token); });
var country = data.Get<IGeoData>().Country;
var isMobile = data.Get<IDeviceData>().IsMobile;
cancellationSource.Cancel();
Console.WriteLine();
if (country.HasValue)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Country: {country.Value}");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine($"Country: {country.NoValueMessage}");
}
if (isMobile.HasValue)
{
Console.WriteLine($"IsMobile: {isMobile.Value}");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine($"IsMobile: {isMobile.NoValueMessage}");
}
}
}
}
private static void OutputUntilCancelled(string text, int intervalMs, CancellationToken token)
{
while (token.IsCancellationRequested == false)
{
Console.Write(text);
Task.Delay(intervalMs).Wait();
}
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Obtain a resource key for free at https://configure.51degrees.com
// Make sure to include the 'Country' and 'IsMobile' properties as
// they are used by this example.
string resourceKey = args.Length > 0 ? args[0] : "!!YOUR_RESOURCE_KEY!!";
if (resourceKey.StartsWith("!!"))
{
Console.WriteLine("You need to create a resource key at " +
"https://configure.51degrees.com and paste it into this example.");
Console.WriteLine("Make sure to include the 'Country' and " +
"'IsMobile' properties as they are used by this example.");
}
else
{
new Example().Run(resourceKey);
}
#if (DEBUG)
Console.WriteLine("Complete. Press key to exit.");
Console.ReadKey();
#endif
}
}
}