Creating a topic on the Geotopia Canvas

Next step in realizing Geotopia is enabling logged in users to click on the map and add some information for that specific location on the map.

I enable this by:
- use jquery ui to show  a dialog on the screen that takes a piece of text
- use $.ajax to post the data to my webapi controller
- use Neo4j client to create a node containing the piece of text, the location and the user who posted it
- create a PostedBy relationship between the user and the newly created geotopic

Clicking on the map somewhere, displays this model dialog from jquery UI.

Clicking post will do the following to open mydialog and add some data to the dialog (the location as well).

  $("#MyDialog").data('location', location).dialog("open");

Here is where i get my location in the dialog function:
 var source = {
                    'latitude': location.latitude,
                    'longitude': location.longitude,
                 
                    'message': $('#topicmessage').val()
                }
This source is used to send it to my webapi controller.

 $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: '../api/Topics',
            data: source
          });

This causes my webapi controller to fire off

//user must be logged in.
//i take the username which is indexed in neo4j to get a reference to the right user node.

var userNode = client.QueryIndex("GeotopiaUser", IndexFor.Node, String.Format("Id:{0}", User.Identity.Name));

            //now create a topic
            Geotopic newTopic = new Geotopic(value.latitude, value.longitude, value.Topic);

            var secondtopic = client.Create(newTopic,
                new IRelationshipAllowingParticipantNode[0],
                new[]
                            {
                                new IndexEntry("Geotopic")
                                {
                                     { "Id", newTopic.id.ToString() }
                                }
                            });
            NodeReference reference = userNode.First().Reference;

            client.CreateRelationship(secondtopic, new PostedBy(reference));
            //now SignalR it to all my followers....

The node graph now shows up like this:

Node 163 is the newly created one.

Here are the details of node 163:

The next step will be to use SignalR and let my followers know that I posted something altogether with using the NotificationHub to notify mobile users!