Propylon Code Test - C# Oireachtas API

This project has a C# file Program.cs which defines 3 methods to load and process a couple of the [Houses of the Oireachtas Open Data APIs][1].

Specifically, they use the data obtained from the legislation and members api endpoints to answer the questions:

• Which bills were sponsored by a given member ?
• Which bills were last updated within a specified time period ?

You are tasked with doing one or more of the following in any order you are comfortable with. Obviously the more you manage to get done, the better.

1. The current implementation loads previously obtained offline copy of the data obtained from the endpoints. Update the module to fetch the latest data from the api endpoint if the parameter passed is the URL to the endpoint instead of a filename.

2. The current implementation of the filterBillsSponsoredBy appears to be correct. It is also reasonably quick when processing the offline data. However, when the complete dataset obtained from the api is loaded, it is noticeably slower. Refactor the implementation to be faster than the current inefficient implementation.

3. Provide an implementation for the unimplemented function filterBillsByLastUpdated. The specification for this is documented in the function's doc-string.

4. The Main method of the Program class is currently unused. The methods are only used in the test project. Update the project to allow a user to choose a filter message and input arguments through the command line.

5. Improve the code base as you would any professional quality code. This includes not just error checking and improving code readability but also adding documentation, comments where necessary, additional tests if any ...etc.

This project was designed in Visual Studio with .Net Framework 4.7.2 Microsoft offers a [community version of Visual Studio][2] Alternatives to Visual Studio include downloading just the .Net Framework and using the MSBuild command line tool or using [Mono Project's][3] cross platform open source tools

Feel free to ask any questions or clarifications, if required.

Wish you the best of luck !

[1] https://api.oireachtas.ie/ [2] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ [3] https://www.mono-project.com/