Weather Report

A command line interface that displays some interesting information about the weather in Sweden, based on SMHI's open API.

• Author: Layla Alvey
• Built with: .NET 4.7

Instructions

Prerequisites:

• Visual Studio
• .Net 4.7

To run:

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/codinatrix/WeatherReport.git

   or download from https://github.com/codinatrix/WeatherReport/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
2. Open the WeatherReport folder
3. Open WeatherReport.sln
4. Right click on the solution in Solution Explorer and choose Properties.
5. Select Multiple startup projects and Choose Start as the Action for both projects.
6. Press F5 on your keyboard or click on the green play button at the top of Visual Studio

Todo

Improvements that should be made to this app, in order of priority:

• Bundle this into an executable or deployable file, depending on requirements.
• Interrupt ReadKey() for smoother end to console program.
• Create a better structure in the console portion of the app so everything isn't in Program.cs.
• Better ways of storing endpoints. This is simple with appsettings.json in .Net Core, but I need to research how it is done in .Net 4.7.
• Check if it would be useful or necessary to accept parameters such as period or station that would construct the correct endpoint.
• More error handling and return more informative error messages from the Web API portion of the app. Inform the client if data was not found for some stations.
• Validate responses in CLI portion of the app.
• Add a spinner to the console app while it was busy retrieving data, to show the user that it is working.
• Move the HTTP logic to its own WeatherReport.Common project.
• Create a Swagger.

Contact

• LinkedIn
• Project Link: https://github.com/codinatrix/WeatherReport