using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Linq.Expressions; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace CarManagerV3 { /// /// The ImageManager class is responsible for managing car images, including fetching and storing them locally. /// internal class ImageManager { /// /// Initializes the image folder by creating it if it does not exist. /// public static void InitializeImageFolder() { string path = "images"; if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(path)) { System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(path); } // Do not catch here. If we cannot create our images folder, the program wont work. } /// /// Generates the image path for a given car based on its attributes. /// /// The car. /// The image path for this Car. public static string GetImagePath(Car car) { string basePath = "images/"; string fileName = $"{car.Make}_{car.Model}_{car.Year}_{car.Color}.png"; return basePath + fileName; } /// /// Gets the image for a given car, fetching it if necessary. /// /// The car. /// The object for the car. public static Image GetImage(Car car) { InitializeImageFolder(); FetchImage(car); string path = GetImagePath(car); // does image exist? try { if (System.IO.File.Exists(path)) { return Image.FromFile(path); } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.Error.WriteLine($"Error loading image: {ex.Message}"); } try { return Image.FromFile("images/no_image_available.png"); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.Error.WriteLine($"Error loading fallback image: {ex.Message}"); return null; } } /// /// Fetches an image for a Car from https://cdn.imagin.studio/getimage if it does not already exist locally and saves it to images/Make_Model_Year_Color.webp. /// If the image cannot be fetched, a placeholder image is used instead. /// Uses example customer id "hrjavascript-mastery", because they wouldn't give me one. Stole this from a tutorial page. :) /// /// The car. public static void FetchImage(Car car) { // Fetch the image from https://cdn.imagin.studio/getimage and save it to images/Make_Model_Year.webp // use params like this: ?customer=hrjavascript-mastery&zoomType=fullscreen&make={make}&modelFamily={model}&modelYear={year}&angle=front&paintDescription={color}&fileType=png // check if the image already exists string path = GetImagePath(car); if (System.IO.File.Exists(path)) { return; } string url = $"https://cdn.imagin.studio/getimage?customer=hrjavascript-mastery&zoomType=fullscreen&make={car.Make}&modelFamily={car.Model}&modelYear={car.Year}&angle=front&paintDescription={car.Color}&fileType=png"; //add Referer header to avoid 403 error using (var client = new System.Net.WebClient()) { client.Headers.Add("Referer", "http://localhost"); try { client.DownloadFile(url, path); } catch { // if error, use fallback image no_image_available.png System.IO.File.Copy("images/no_image_available.png", path); } } } } }