private static List GetTransactionData()

in Hands-on lab/lab-files/TransactionGenerator/Program.cs [59:79]

• 16 lines of code
• 1 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

        private static List<Transaction> GetTransactionData(Func<string, string, Transaction> factory)
        {
            var transactions = new List<Transaction>();

            Console.WriteLine("Retrieving sample transaction data...");

            using (var reader = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(@"cleaned-transactions.csv")))
            {
                var header = reader.ReadLines()
                    .First();
                var lines = reader.ReadLines()
                    .Skip(1);

                // Instantiate a Transaction object from the CSV line and header data, using the passed in factory:
                transactions.AddRange(lines.Select(line => factory(line, header)));
            }

            Console.WriteLine($"Sample transaction data retrieved. {transactions.Count} records found.");

            return transactions;
        }