refactored crawler controllers and bundled them in crawlers namespace

app/controllers/crawlers/courses_crawler_controller.rb

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+class Crawlers::CoursesCrawlerController < TissCrawlerController
+
+  def show_basic
+    params[:api] = '/api/search/course/v1.0/quickSearch'
+    params[:search_parameter] = 'searchterm'
+    puts params[:search_context]
+    @host = TissCrawler.get_host
+
+    # TissCrawler performs general search over the available courses
+    @courses = TissCrawler.search(params)
+  end
+
+  def show_detail
+    params[:api] = '/api/course/'
+    regex = params[:detail_url].match(/courseNr=(?<number>\S{6})/)
+    params[:number] = regex[:number]
+    regex = params[:detail_url].match(/semester=(?<semester>\d{4}[SW])/)
+    params[:semester] = regex[:semester]
+
+    puts params
+
+    # TissCrawler fetches the course's detail information
+    @course = TissCrawler.get_course_details(params)
+    puts @course
+
+    # Get all the org ids into one array
+    @lecturers_oid = @course['lecturers']['oid']
+    @lecturers_names = []
+
+    if @lecturers_oid != nil
+      @lecturers_oid.each do |item|
+        # For each org id get the associated name
+        puts TissCrawler.get_oid_name(item)
+        @lecturers_names << (TissCrawler.get_oid_name(item))
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Host is needed for image rendering
+    @host = TissCrawler.get_host
+  end
+
+  def add_to_fav
+  end
+
+end

app/controllers/crawlers/people_crawler_controller.rb

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+class Crawlers::PeopleCrawlerController < TissCrawlerController
+
+  def show_basic
+    params[:api] = '/api/person/v22/psuche'
+    params[:search_parameter] = 'q'
+    puts params[:search_context]
+    @host = TissCrawler.get_host
+
+    # TissCrawler performs general search over the available people
+    @people = TissCrawler.search(params)
+  end
+
+  def show_detail
+    params[:api] = '/api/person/v22/id/'
+    params[:tiss_id] = params[:tiss_id]
+
+    puts params
+    # TissCrawler fetches the person's detail information
+    @person = TissCrawler.get_details(params)
+    # Host is needed for image rendering
+    @host = TissCrawler.get_host
+  end
+
+  def add_to_fav
+    params[:api] = '/api/person/v22/id/'
+    puts params[:tiss_id]
+    @person = TissCrawler.get_details(params)
+
+    # create stores the object to the db after creation
+    if FavoritePerson.create(tiss_id: @person['tiss_id'], first_name: @person['first_name'], last_name: @person['last_name'], picture_uri: @person['picture_uri']).valid?
+      FavoritePerson.create(tiss_id: @person['tiss_id'], first_name: @person['first_name'], last_name: @person['last_name'], picture_uri: @person['picture_uri'])
+      respond_to do |format|
+        format.html { redirect_to favorites_people_url, notice: 'Favorite person stored' }
+      end
+    else
+      flash[:alert] = "Person is already favorited!"
+      redirect_back(fallback_location: search)
+    end
+  end
+
+end

app/controllers/crawlers/projects_crawler_controller.rb

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+class Crawlers::ProjectsCrawlerController < TissCrawlerController
+  def show_basic
+
+  end
+
+  def show_detail
+
+  end
+
+  def add_to_fav
+
+  end
+end

app/controllers/crawlers/theses_crawler_controller.rb

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+class Crawlers::ThesesCrawlerController < TissCrawlerController
+  def show_basic
+
+  end
+
+  def show_detail
+
+  end
+
+  def add_to_fav
+
+  end
+end

app/controllers/crawlers/tiss_crawler_controller.rb

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+class Crawlers::TissCrawlerController < ApplicationController
+
+  # self designed lib to call the Tiss API
+  require 'tiss/tiss_crawler'
+
+  def search
+    # search context like 'People', 'Courses', etc is mandatory
+    $search_context = params[:search_context]
+
+    # evaluate the proper action regarding to the $search_context
+    case $search_context
+    when 'People'
+      # redirect to people_show_basic, propagate the search_term
+      redirect_to :controller => 'crawlers/people_crawler', :action => :show_basic, :search_term => params[:search_term]
+    when 'Courses'
+      # redirect to courses_show_basic, propagate the search_term
+      redirect_to :controller => 'crawlers/courses_crawler', :action => :show_basic, :search_term => params[:search_term]
+    when 'Theses'
+    when 'Projects'
+    else
+      puts 'Undefined search context'
+    end
+  end
+
+  def show_basic
+  end
+
+  def show_detail
+  end
+
+  def add_to_fav
+  end
+
+end