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I hope everyone has a blessed 2025!

You may have already downloaded our nuget package and want some additional assistance in getting started using HSS_API_Store_SDK. Below you will find a unit test code snippet that demonstrates calls to the methods provided in our nuget package. Be sure to scroll through the entire post there is more after the following code.

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using HSS_API_Store_SDK;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using static HSS_API_Store_SDK.apiResponsePasswords;
using static HSS_API_Store_SDK.apiResponseFoods;
using static HSS_API_Store_SDK.apiResponsePeople;

namespace HSS_API_Store_SDK_UnitTests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public async Task TestMethod1()
        {
            var apiResponse = await Passwords.GetPasswordsAsync(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_EmailAddress"), 
                ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_PasswordsKey"), 10, 20, 8, "", true, RequiredSymbols.Digits);

            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse);
            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse.passwordValues);
            Assert.AreEqual(ResponseEnumPasswords.Success, apiResponse.responseStatus);
            Assert.AreEqual(9, apiResponse.passwordValues.GetUpperBound(0));

            foreach(var password in apiResponse.passwordValues)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(password);
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public async Task TestMethod2()
        {
            var apiResponse = await Passwords.GetPasswordsAsync(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_EmailAddress"), 
                ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_PasswordsKey"), PasswordCharacterSelection: RequiredSymbols.Digits);

            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse);
            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse.passwordValues);
            Assert.AreEqual(ResponseEnumPasswords.Success, apiResponse.responseStatus);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, apiResponse.passwordValues.GetUpperBound(0));

            foreach (var password in apiResponse.passwordValues)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(password);
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public async Task TestMethod3()
        {
            var apiResponse = await Foods.GetFoodsAsync(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_EmailAddress"), 
                ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_FoodsKey"));

            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse);
            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse.foodsList);
            Assert.AreEqual(ResponseEnumFoods.Success, apiResponse.responseStatus);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, apiResponse.foodsList.ToArray().GetUpperBound(0));

            foreach (var food in apiResponse.foodsList)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(food.foodInformation.Name);
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public async Task TestMethod4()
        {
            var apiResponse = await Foods.GetFoodsAsync(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_EmailAddress"),
                ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_FoodsKey"), 20, "goat's milk");

            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse);
            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse.foodsList);
            Assert.AreEqual(ResponseEnumFoods.Success, apiResponse.responseStatus);
            Assert.AreEqual(19, apiResponse.foodsList.ToArray().GetUpperBound(0));

            foreach (var food in apiResponse.foodsList)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(food.foodInformation.BrandName + " " + food.foodInformation.Name + " " + food.foodInformation.HouseholdServing);
                Console.WriteLine(food.foodInformation.Ingredients);
                Console.WriteLine(" ");
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public async Task TestMethod5()
        {
            var apiResponse = await People.GetPeopleAsync(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_EmailAddress"), 
                ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("HSS_API_Store_PeopleKey"), 5, StateSelection: StateIDEnum.AR);

            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse);
            Assert.IsNotNull(apiResponse.peopleList);
            Assert.AreEqual(ResponseEnumPeople.Success, apiResponse.responseStatus);
            Assert.AreEqual(4, apiResponse.peopleList.ToArray().GetUpperBound(0));

            foreach (var person in apiResponse.peopleList)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(person.Prefix + " " + person.FirstName + " " + person.LastName);
                Console.WriteLine(person.AddressLine1);
                if (person.AddressLine2 != null && person.AddressLine2 != "")
                    Console.WriteLine(person.AddressLine2);
                Console.WriteLine(person.City + ", " + person.StateID + " " + person.ZipCode);
                Console.WriteLine(person.PhoneNumber.FormatPhoneNumber());
                Console.WriteLine(" ");
            }
        }
    }
}

You will need to setup an app.config file in your project if you want to build this unit test code to define the AppSettings used in the code. Below is a sample app.config with placeholders in curly braces for your email and API keys. You can change these to the values you received when you requested API keys from our API Store.

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Thank you for downloading our SDK and for reading our post!

We make use of a script on our server that hosts our websites to encrypt our web.config and perform various other deployment tasks. For some time we have logged into the server to run this script after publishing our websites from Visual Studio. After doing this for a while we had the idea that Visual Studio should be able to execute our script once the website publish task is completed. We were using File System publish to deploy our website. Long story short, we failed to get the script to execute when our publish task completes. It turns out that this is not supported for File System publish.

After getting some rest from our attempts at implementing this, we decided to give it another try. This time we carefully read what we found from Google searches and found that web deploy of website does support execution of a script after publish completes. Here is what we learned: add the following to your .csproj file for the web application in Visual Studio just before the </Project> tag.

<Target Name="MyTarget" AfterTargets="MSDeployPublish">
     <Exec Command="cmd /c c:\Users\mjhorvath\deployall.bat" />
</Target>

The Exec Command may be any command you wish to use. In our case we execute a batch file script that makes a call to Power Shell to execute another script on our server that performs the tasks we need to complete deployment of the website.

We hope this saves you from duplicating our mistakes while developing this solution. Have a blessed day!

Square Up has updated their SDK for payment processing and made a change that will obsolete the method we were using to take customer payments. We've updated our payment processing code to make use of the CheckoutApi CreatePaymentLinkAsync method. The Square Up SDK documentation for this does not include the client local variable definition so to help those who may want to use the same payment processing method we've included a code snippet from our Buy controller.

We hope this helps with your development efforts. Thanks for reading our post!

            
                if (tempProduct.SalePrice.HasValue)
                {
                    var client = new Square.SquareClient.Builder()
                        .Environment(Square.Environment.Production)
                        .AccessToken(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["squareUpAPIKey"])
                        .Build();

                    var priceMoney = new Square.Models.Money.Builder()
                        .Amount((long?)(tempProduct.SalePrice * 100.0M))
                        .Currency("USD")
                        .Build();

                    var quickPay = new QuickPay.Builder(
                        name: tempProduct.FileName + " Activation Key",
                        priceMoney: priceMoney,
                        locationId: ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HSS_squareUpLocationID"])
                      .Build();

                    var prePopulatedData = new PrePopulatedData.Builder()
                      .BuyerEmail(currentEmail)
                      .BuyerPhoneNumber("+1" + tblPRESSCustomer.PhoneNumber)
                      .Build();

                    var checkoutOptions = new CheckoutOptions.Builder()
                        .RedirectUrl(@"https://horvathsoftware.com/tblPRESSCustomerTransactionData/Success?activationKey=" + keyWeFound + @"&EmailAddress=" + currentEmail + @"&FileName=" + tempProduct.FileName + @"&customerID=" + customerID.ToString() + @"&transactionAmount=" + ((decimal)tempProduct.SalePrice).ToString())
                        .Build();

                    var body = new CreatePaymentLinkRequest.Builder()
                      .IdempotencyKey(NewIdempotencyKey())
                      .QuickPay(quickPay)
                      .PrePopulatedData(prePopulatedData)
                      .CheckoutOptions(checkoutOptions)
                      .Build();

                    try
                    {
                        var resultLink = await client.CheckoutApi.CreatePaymentLinkAsync(body: body);
                        int waitTime=3000;
                        HSS_DB_Settings.DBAppSettings.GetSettingInt32("waitToRedirectPayment", out waitTime);
                        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(waitTime);
                        return Redirect(resultLink.PaymentLink.Url);
                    }
                    catch (ApiException e)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Failed to make the request");
                        Console.WriteLine($"Response Code: {e.ResponseCode}");
                        Console.WriteLine($"Exception: {e.Message}");
                        goto returnView;
                    }
                }