/**
* @param ticker The ticker of the stock to look up.
* @throws ConnectionException if it has problems connecting to Yahoo.
* @return The value of the given stock, as %CompanyName: %Value.
*/
public String getStockValue(String ticker) throws ConnectionException {
try {
final HtmlPage lookup =
client.getPage(
new StringBuilder("http://www.google.com/finance?q=").append(ticker).toString());
final DomElement pricediv =
lookup.getFirstByXPath("//div[@id = 'price-panel']/div/span/span");
final DomElement compname =
lookup.getFirstByXPath("//div[@class = 'appbar-snippet-primary']/span");
return new StringBuilder(compname.getTextContent())
.append(": ")
.append(pricediv.getTextContent())
.toString();
} catch (IOException | FailingHttpStatusCodeException e) {
System.out.println(
new StringBuilder("Exception in retrieval.")
.append("InternetConnection.getStockValue(")
.append(ticker)
.append(")")
.toString());
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
throw new ConnectionException(
new StringBuilder("Unable to find data for ").append(ticker).toString());
}
