Queue - .NET Core C#

This tutorial shows how to queue tasks using the LEADTOOLS Cloud Services in a C# .NET Core console application.

Overview  
Summary This tutorial covers how to make Queue requests and process the results using the LEADTOOLS Cloud Services in a C# .NET Core console application.
Completion Time 30 minutes
Project Download tutorial project (2 KB)
Platform LEADTOOLS Cloud Services API
IDE Visual Studio 2019
Language C# .NET Core
Development License Download LEADTOOLS
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Required Knowledge

Be sure to review the following sites for information about LEADTOOLS Cloud Services API.

Service Plans

LEADTOOLS Service Plan offerings:

Service Plan Description
Free Trial Free Evaluation
Page Packages Prepaid Page Packs
Subscriptions Prepaid Monthly Processed Pages

To further explore the offerings, refer to Pricing Information for LEADTOOLS Hosted Cloud Services > Service Plan Terms.

For pricing details, refer to https://www.leadtools.com/sdk/products/hosted-services#pricing > Page Packages and Subscriptions.

To obtain the necessary Application ID and Application Password, refer to Create an Account and Application with the LEADTOOLS Hosted Cloud Services.

Create the Project and Add the Required Dependencies

In Visual Studio, create a new C# .NET Core Console project, and add the following required NuGet package:

Add the Queue Code

With the project created and the package added, coding can begin.

In the Solution Explorer, open Program.cs. Add the following statements to the using block at the top.

C#
// Using block at the top 
using Newtonsoft.Json; 
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; 
using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Net; 
using System.Net.Http; 
using System.Net.Http.Headers; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Threading.Tasks; 

Add a string variable called hostedServicesUrl and an async Task called Queue(). The Queue task performs an UploadFile request to the LEADTOOLS Cloud Service API. If successful, a GUID will be returned for use later in the project.

C#
private string hostedServicesUrl = "https://azure.leadtools.com/api/"; 
public async Task Queue() 
{ 
    var client = InitClient(); 
 
    // If using URL to the file 
    string fileURL = "http://demo.leadtools.com/images/cloud_samples/ocr1-4.tif"; 
    string uploadUrl = string.Format("UploadFile?fileurl={0}", fileURL); 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(uploadUrl, null); 
 
    /* 
    //If uploading a file as multi-part content: 
    HttpContent byteContent = new ByteArrayContent(File.ReadAllBytes(@"path/to/file")); 
    byteContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data") 
    { 
        Name = "attachment", 
        FileName = "file-name" 
    }; 
    var formData = new MultipartFormDataContent(); 
    formData.Add(byteContent, "formFieldName"); 
 
    string uploadUrl = "UploadFile"; 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(uploadUrl, formData); 
    formData.Dispose(); 
    */ 
 
    if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) 
    { 
        //Unique ID returned by the services 
        string id = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); 
        Console.WriteLine("Unique ID returned by the services: " + id); 
        await CheckFileForVerification(id, client); 
    } 
    else 
        Console.WriteLine("Request failed with the following response: " + result.StatusCode); 
} 

In this example we will first queue up an ExtractText request using the GUID that was returned from the UploadFile request in the Queue task. After verifying the ExtractText request is queued, we will queue up a Convert request to convert the file to TIFF.

Create method private async Task QueueExtractText(string id, HttpClient client) and method private async Task QueueConversion(string id, HttpClient client) just under the Queue method.

C#
private async Task QueueExtractText(string id, HttpClient client) 
{ 
    //The first page in the file to mark for processing 
    int firstPage = 1; 
 
    //Sending a value of -1 will indicate to the service that all pages in the file should be processed. 
    int lastPage = -1; 
 
    string recognitionUrl = string.Format("Recognition/ExtractText?firstPage={0}&lastPage={1}&guid={2}", firstPage, lastPage, id); 
 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(recognitionUrl, null); 
    if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) 
        await QueueConversion(id, client); 
    else 
        Console.WriteLine("Request failed with the following response: " + result.StatusCode); 
} 
 
private async Task QueueConversion(string id, HttpClient client) 
{ 
    //The first page in the file to mark for processing 
    int firstPage = 1; 
 
    //Sending a value of -1 will indicate to the service that all pages in the file should be processed. 
    int lastPage = -1; 
 
    //Enum corresponding to the output format for the file. For the purposes of this script, we will be converting to tif. 
    int fileFormat = 4; 
 
    string conversionUrl = string.Format("Conversion/Convert?firstPage={0}&lastPage={1}&guid={2}&format={3}", firstPage, lastPage, id, fileFormat); 
 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(conversionUrl, null); 
    if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) 
        await Run(id, client); 
    else 
        Console.WriteLine("Conversion Request failed to queue with the following response: " + result.StatusCode); 
} 

With both QueueExtractText and QueueConversion queued we can process them with the Run request.

Note This will mark the file as ready to be processed. Once a file has been marked for processing, or has finished processing, no further requests can be queued or run on that file.

Create the method private aync Task Run(string id, HttpClient client) and the method private async Task CheckFileForVerification(string id, HttpClient client). The CheckFileForVerification method is used by the Queue method to confirm the Upload request and initiate the QueueExtractText.

C#
private async Task Run(string id, HttpClient client) 
{ 
    string uploadUrl = string.Format("Run?id={0}", id); 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(uploadUrl, null); 
    if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) 
        await Query(id, client); 
    else 
        Console.WriteLine("Request failed with the following response: " + result.StatusCode); 
} 
 
private async Task CheckFileForVerification(string id, HttpClient client) 
{ 
    string queryUrl = string.Format("Query?id={0}", id.ToString()); 
    var result = await client.PostAsync(queryUrl, null); 
    var returnedContent = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); 
    var returnedData = JObject.Parse(returnedContent); 
    var fileStatus = (int)returnedData.SelectToken("FileStatus"); 
    if (fileStatus == 123) 
    { 
        //The file is still being verified.  We will check every half a second to make sure that the file has been verified 
        await Task.Delay(500); 
        await Query(id, client); 
        return; 
    } 
    if(fileStatus == 122) 
        QueueExtractText(string id, HttpClient client); 
    else 
        Console.WriteLine("File failed verification with File Status: " + fileStatus); 
} 

Next, create an async Task called Query(string id, HttpClient client), if successful, the response body will contain all the request data in JSON format.

C#
private async Task Query(string id, HttpClient client) 
{ 
    string queryUrl = string.Format("Query?id={0}", id.ToString()); 
    HttpResponseMessage result; 
    string returnedContent; 
    JObject returnedData; 
    int fileStatus; 
    do 
    { 
        result = await client.PostAsync(queryUrl, null); 
        returnedContent = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); 
        returnedData = JObject.Parse(returnedContent); 
        fileStatus = (int)returnedData.SelectToken("FileStatus"); 
        //The file is still being processed -- we will sleep the current thread for 5 seconds before trying again. 
        await Task.Delay(5000); 
    } while (fileStatus == 100); 
 
    Console.WriteLine("File has finished processing with return code: " + returnedData.SelectToken("FileStatus")); 
    if ((int)returnedData.SelectToken("FileStatus") != 200) 
        return; 
 
    ParseJson(returnedData.SelectToken("RequestData").ToString()); 
} 

Then, create the function ParseJson(string json) to process the returned JSON data.

C#
private void ParseJson(string json) 
{ 
    JArray requestArray = JArray.Parse(json); 
    foreach (var requestReturn in requestArray) 
    { 
        Console.WriteLine("Service Type: " + requestReturn.SelectToken("ServiceType")); 
        Console.WriteLine("Returned Data:"); 
        Console.WriteLine(); 
        if (requestReturn.SelectToken("ServiceType").ToString() == "Conversion") 
        { 
            var UrlArray = JArray.Parse(requestReturn.SelectToken("urls").ToString()); 
            foreach (var obj in UrlArray) 
                Console.WriteLine(obj.ToString()); 
        } 
        else 
        { 
            Console.WriteLine("Returned Data:" + requestReturn.SelectToken("data")); 
        } 
        Console.WriteLine("***********************************************"); 
    } 
} 

Finally, create the function InitClient() to create a client connection to request the GUID and JSON data through.

C#
private HttpClient InitClient() 
{ 
    string AppId = "Replace with Application ID"; 
    string Password = "Replace with Application Password"; 
 
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); 
    client.BaseAddress = new Uri(hostedServicesUrl); 
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear(); 
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json")); 
 
    string authData = string.Format("{0}:{1}", AppId, Password); 
    string authHeaderValue = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authData)); 
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", authHeaderValue); 
 
    return client; 
} 

Run the Project

In order to test run this code be sure to add Queue().GetAwaiter().GetResults(); to the static void Main section.

Run the project by pressing F5, or by selecting Debug -> Start Debugging.

If the steps were followed correctly, the console appears and the application displays the JSON data results from the queued tasks.

Queue Process Results

Wrap-up

This tutorial showed how to queue tasks via the LEADTOOLS Cloud Services API.

See Also

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