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ask for an athlete

You were to assume that you have a CGI script called cgi-bin/
1
generate_data.py, which, when called requests the data for
a named athlete from the server.
Provide the name of You were to provide the code (which includes a call to
the CGI to run. the send_to_server() function) to implement this
functionality:

get_data_cgi = '/cgi-bin/generate_data.py'
Send the request
to the web server, send_to_server(web_server + get_data_cgi, {'which_athlete': which_athlete})
together with the
athlete name. Include the data.
Additionally, you were to write the code required to display the list of times returned from the server within
2 an Android dialog: Which button was pressed?

When your user if resp['which'] in ('positive'): The index value
taps the “positive” is in the first
button…work out selected_athlete = app.dialogGetSelectedItems().result[0] element of the
the index value list of results
chosen. returned from the
which_athlete = athlete_names[selected_athlete] dialog.
Look up the
athlete’s name using
the index value. Send a new
athlete = json.loads(send_to_server(web_server + get_data_cgi, web request
to the server
Dynamically {'which_athlete': which_athlete})) to fetch the
create the athlete’s data.
dialog’s title.
athlete_title = which_athlete + ' top 3 times:'

app.dialogCreateAlert(athlete_title)

The user needs app.dialogSetItems(athlete['Top3'])
to see only the
data this time, so app.dialogSetPositiveButtonText('OK’)
you need to use
“dialogSetItems()”. app.dialogShow() Set the single
button’s text.

Wait for a tap
from the user. resp = app.dialogGetResponse().result

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