From 733b66002356b73931c430eea51fa3b2c398deb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ksetiono <kevin.setiono@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:03:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure that partition key is valid even if the name starts
 with a number or special character

---
 VotingWeb/Controllers/VotesController.cs | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VotingWeb/Controllers/VotesController.cs b/VotingWeb/Controllers/VotesController.cs
index d10f3fa..fd2f7f4 100644
--- a/VotingWeb/Controllers/VotesController.cs
+++ b/VotingWeb/Controllers/VotesController.cs
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ private Uri GetProxyAddress(Uri serviceName)
         /// <returns></returns>
         private long GetPartitionKey(string name)
         {
-            return Char.ToUpper(name.First()) - 'A';
+            long partitionKey = Char.ToUpper(name.First()) - 'A';
+
+            return Math.Min(25, Math.Max(0, partitionKey));
         }
     }
 }
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