Datasets – Cinema Online (CO)

Cinema Online
Cinema Online is the brainchild of two enterprising individuals who have a dream of revolutionizing the Malaysian movie scene. The website www.cinema.com.my first saw the light of a screen in October 1998, and since then, has grown to include thousands of pages worth of content. In this website you will find all the latest happenings of movies, be they local or international. News, reviews, previews, and contests are amongst its highlights. All this from the humble beginnings of Cinema Showtimes, now encompassing around 95% of ALL Malaysian cinemas, and as always, updated daily for your convenience. Cinema Online also introduced online ticket reservation and to date, is still the only operating nationwide cinema reservation network. In collaboration with Project Nimbus, Cinema Online have graciously shared some of their available data for Singapore.

Datasets Available

Code Snippet

.NET – How do I access a complete list of movies

public List<MovieEntry> GetMovieFromNimbusCO(string AccountKey, string UniqueUserID)
    {

        System.Net.WebRequest wr=
          HttpWebRequest.Create(
            "http://api.projectnimbus.org/coodataservice.svc/MovieSet?");
        wr.Headers.Add("AccountKey",AccountKey);
        wr.Headers.Add("UniqueUserID",UniqueUserID);
        wr.Method = "GET";
        WebResponse res = wr.GetResponse();
        string resStr
         = new System.IO.StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

        XNamespace atomNS
          = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
        XNamespace dNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
        XNamespace mNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";

        List<MovieEntry> results
          = (from item in XElement.Parse(resStr).Descendants(atomNS + "entry")
            let movie = item.Element(atomNS + "content").Element(mNS +"properties")
                select new MovieEntry() {
                MovieID movie.Element(dNS +"MovieID").Value,
                Name = movie.Element(dNS +"Name").Value,
                ReleaseDate = movie.Element(dNS + "ReleaseDate").Value,
                Classification = movie.Element(dNS + "Classification").Value
            }).ToList();

        return results;
    }

Java – How do I access a complete list of movies

public ArrayList<Movie> getMovies(String accountKey, String uniqueId) {
  movieList = new ArrayList<Movies>();
  try {
    URL _url = new URL("http://api.projectnimbus.org/coodataservice.svc/MovieSet?");
    URLConnection _urlConn = _url.openConnection();
    _urlConn.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("AccountKey", accountKey);
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("UniqueUserID", uniqueId);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(_urlConn.getInputStream()));
    String line = null;
    StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
      strBuilder.append(line);
      System.out.println(line);
    }
}

String[] IProperties = strBuilder.toString().split("<m:properties>");
    for (String str : IProperties) {
      Movies movie = new Movies();
      movie.setMovieID(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:MovieID m:type=\"Edm.Int32\">", "</d:MovieID>"));
      movie.setName(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Name>", "</d:Name>"));
      movie.setReleasedDate(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:ReleasedDate m:type=\"Edm.DateTime\">", "</d:ReleasedDate>"));
      movie.setClassification(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Cassification>", "</d:Classification>"));
      movieList.add(movie);
      }
    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return movieList;
}

Helpers Available

.NET – C# Proxy Classes: click here | Read this blog post for more information to use these proxy classes.

JAVA – Read this blog post for more information to use JAVA to connect to the data service.

PHP & AJAX – Read this blog post for more information to use PHP/AJAX to connect to the data service.

obj C / xcode – coming soon

Terms of Use

The datasets:

• Are here as a community technology preview for a period of time (TBD).
• Cannot be used in any public offering.
• Are offered as-is with no official support.

Support

None at this time.