From e9975ebccd7fd740f2e8944cace7655215663f92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruchita Nathani <ruchita.nathani@fau.de>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 08:09:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added requests package to the dependencies in Pipfile and
 Added Absolute Path for Data file

---
 BDC/src/data_collector.py | 8 +++++---
 Pipfile                   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BDC/src/data_collector.py b/BDC/src/data_collector.py
index 0e2823d..c641e63 100644
--- a/BDC/src/data_collector.py
+++ b/BDC/src/data_collector.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import csv
 import requests
 import json
+import os
 
 
 class DataCollector:
@@ -13,7 +14,8 @@ def __init__(self):
     def get_data_from_csv():
         """Retrieve information from the CSV file and utilize it in the Google API"""
         data = []
-        with open('../data/given_data.csv', 'r', encoding='utf8') as file:
+        file_path = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '../data/given_data.csv')
+        with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf8') as file:
             csv_reader = csv.reader(file)
             next(csv_reader)
 
@@ -39,8 +41,8 @@ def get_data_from_api():
 
         if response.status_code == 200:
             data = response.json()
-
-            with open("../data/collected_data.json", "w") as json_file:
+            file_path = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '../data/collected_data.json')
+            with open(file_path, "w") as json_file:
                 user_data = []
                 for users in data["users"]:
                     data_dict = {
diff --git a/Pipfile b/Pipfile
index 07baa54..1289b34 100644
--- a/Pipfile
+++ b/Pipfile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ pytest = "==7.4.3"
 
 [packages]
 numpy = "==1.26.1"
+requests = "*"
 
 [requires]
 python_version = "3.10"