Description
Object-Oriented Programming II
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to allow you practice Inheritance, Polymorphism, Exception
Handling, and File I/O, as well as other previous object oriented concepts.
There are two independent parts in this assignment, Part I and Part II.
Part I
Post Canada is not happy with their current software that keeps track of activities of a delivery truck
transporting packages from one city to another for subsequent local delivery by other trucks. You
accepted to take the challenge as a programmer. Your first project is to write a new software application.
Certain simplifying assumptions have been made to allow you to concentrate on OOP concepts rather
than the complete realism of the simulation.
Implementation
Implement the following classes: Truck, Package, Letter, Box, Crate, Metal Crate and Wood
Crate, and CargoTest to simulate the long-distance transportation of packages by a truck.
Your solution must conform to the following:
• A set of classes, corresponding to Truck, Package, Letter, Box, Crate, Metal Crate and
Wood Crate, must be designed, declared and implemented.
• The Truck class should contain the driver’s name, the originating and destination cities, its gross and
unloaded weight, the number of packages and additional information about each package that it
carries. You must use an array of type Package. You may assume that trucks can carry a maximum of
200 packages.
Trucks will be assigned a driver, loaded, weighed before and after loading, driven and unloaded. In
addition, each truck has a gross income equal to the total shipping costs of the packages.
• The Package class is the abstract base class for a ‘packages’ hierarchy. Each package has a tracking
number, weight and shipping cost, based on its weight. The tracking number encodes the originating
and destination cities as well as the type of package. If the least significant digit of the tracking
number is a 0, the package is a letter whose weight is given in ounces. Similarly, if the unit’s digit is a
1, 2 ,or 3 then the package is a box, wooden crate or metal crate, respectively, whose weight is given
in pounds. We are not concerned with the source and destination information for each package, so we
will not examine the tracking number for this information.
• Shipping costs are computed as follows.
o Letters cost $.05/ounce up to a maximum of 32 ounces (2 pounds).
o Boxes cost $2/lb up to a maximum of 40 pounds.
o Wooden crates cost $2.50/lb up to a maximum of 80 pounds.
o Metal crates cost $3.00/lb up to a maximum of 100 pounds.
• Your load method must check for packages that are too heavy. If so, then throw an exception and
print out that package’s information (package type, tracking number, weight). Of course, don’t load
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that package. If the package is ok to load, “get some space” for it and load it. NOTE: All Exceptions
thrown will be of your own type – PackageException.
• If you determine a package is not one of the ones your truck is allowed to carry, throw an exception
and print out the information (unknown package, tracking number, weight). NOTE: All Exceptions
thrown will be of your own type – PackageException.
• If the truck is full, throw an exception and then printout the information (package type, tracking
number, weight) along with the fact that it was not loaded because the truck is full. NOTE: All
Exceptions thrown will be of your own type – PackageException.
• When packages are unloaded the package information is printout, and deducted from the truck load.
• You must handle weight conversion in two ways:
o For package:
This can be implemented using two methods toOunces and toPounds, that will accept a
double as a parameter. You will implement them in Package, or the subclasses, it is entirely up
to you.
o For truck
This can be implemented using two methods toKilograms and toPounds, that will
accept a double as a parameter. You must print out the weight of the vehicle in kilograms and in
pounds.
To test your program you are to write the CargoTest code class which behaves in the following way:
• Instantiate a truck, with its driver, unloaded weight and both the originating and destination cities
• Load the truck with packages.
• Determine the gross income earned by the shipping of the cargo.
• Weigh the truck (AFTER it has been completely loaded).
• Drive the truck to its destination – this will simply be nice output to the screen that states the truck
and its driver is driving from originating city to destination city.
• Unload the truck.
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– Presents the following menu to the user, hence possible actions:
*the sub-menus come after user confirms the choice but not with the main menu.
Part I Evaluation
You will be evaluated mostly on the implementation of the classes, the relationship (is-a vs has-a)
between the classes, abstract classes, methods’ implementation, methods’ overriding and the access,
rights of the class members, as well as exception handling.
Required documents
o UML diagram.
o Source code in Java.
o Javadoc file in HTML.
o Test cases for all the functionalities of the menu
options.
Note- you need to hard code the array of packages, to validate when you try to load more than the
allowed 200 packages.
What would you like to do?
1. Start a cargo
a. Driver name
b. Unload weight(kg; lb)
c. Originating city
d. Destination city
2. Load the truck with packages
a. Package tracking number
b. Package weight(oz; lb)
c. Package shipping cost
3. Unload a package
4. The number of packages loaded
5. The gross income earned by shipping of the cargo
6. Weight the truck(after it has been completely loaded)
7. Drive the truck to destination
0. To quit
Please enter your choice and press :
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Part II
Cargoships ….
The Cargoship class has the following attributes: a serial number (long type), a name (String
type), a creation year (int type), an owner country (String type), a price (double type), and a
speed (int type). It is assumed that both the name and the owner country are recorded as
continuous strings with “_” to separate the different words if any (i.e. a name can be
Royal_Fighter, and country can be United_Kingdom).
The file Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt, which one of its versions is provided with this assignment,
has the information of various cargoships that take part in an international mission. However, this
file is always created manually by a 3rd party firm, which is histroically known to lack precision
and so errors in the serial numbers are expected to exist in this file. In specific, due to a cut-andpaste practice by employees of this firm, some serial numbers are mistakenly re-recorded later in
the file as the serial numbers of other following cargoships in that file. Consequently, a serial
number can either appear once in the file, which is the correct case, or appears multiple times, in
which case the second, and following, appearances are in error.
You must notice that the file Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt changes regularly, and it may have many
records, or no records at all, depending on the current participants in the mission. The file
provided with this assignment is only one version of the file, and must not be considered as the
general case when writing your code.
For part II, you are required to:
1. Write the implementation of the Cargoship class according to the above-given specification.
2. Write the implementation of an exception class called DuplicateSerialNumberException, which
extends the Exception class. Should a duplicate serial number is detected at any point, an object
from this class will be thrown. More details will follow below.
3. Write the implementation of a public class, called CargoshipInventory1, which will utilize the
Cargoship class and the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt, as explained below. The class has a static
array of cargoships, called wsArr[], and a few methods. Besides the main() method, the class
must have the following methods:
a. A method called fixInventory(), which accepts two parameters, an input file stream name
and an output file stream name. The first parameter is the stream related to the
Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt. The second parameter is related to an output file name, which
will be entered by the user prior to calling this method (at the main() method). This
output file will eventually store a correct version of the inventory. More information on
that will follow below.
b. A method called displayFileContents(), which accepts an input file stream name, then
displays the contents of this file to the standard output (the screen).
c. You can add any other methods to that class if you wish to.
Here are the details of how your program must behave:
• In the main() method, your program must prompt the user to enter the name of the output
file that will be created to hold the modified/correct inventory. This output file is
theoretically a copy of the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt, but with all the duplicate serial
numbers corrected.
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• If the entered file name by the user matches the name of an existing file, then the program
must reject that name indicating to the user that a file with that name already exists, display
the size of this existing file (in bytes) to the user, then prompt the user to enter a new name.
This process would repeat indefinitely, until the user finally enters a name for a non-existing
file. See Figure1 for illustration.
• Once the user finally enters a correct file name for the output file, the program will attempt
to establish an input and output streams for the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt and that output
file accordingly. This process may surely throw specific exceptions, and your program must
handle all these exceptions properly.
• The fixInventory() method (see details below) will utilize the wsArr[] array as follows: All
cargoship objects recorded in the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt file must first be copied into
that array. All detections and corrections of the serial numbers will be conducted on that
array. Once the array has finally all correct information, the objects will be recorded to the
output file. However since it is always unknown at the time the program starts how many
records are in the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt file, you must first find this information. You
may, and should, add a private helping method to the CargoshipInventory1 class to do so.
Once the number of records is known, the array must be set to that size.
• If the number of records in the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt was detected to be zero or one;
the case when the file is empty or has only one record, then the program must display a
message indicating that, performs any needed operations (such as closing files), then exits,
since there is nothing to be fixed.
• If the Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt has more than one record, then finally the fixInventory()
method will be called to create a the new output file with the correct information. The exact
details of this method are as follows:
o The method will accept two stream names for the input and output files,
o The method must read each cargoship record from the input file and creates a
cargoship object in the array wsArr[] based on that record,
o Once the entire input file is read into the array (notice that the array has real
cargoship objects, and not just information), the method starts to trace that array
from start to end looking for any serial number duplicates,
o If a serial number duplicate is detected, then the method displays a message to the
user indicating that, and prompt the user to enter a new serial number,
o You should notice that this new number must not be a duplicate of any other
existing record, and your program must guarantee that. Should the user enters a
serial number that is still a duplicate, the program must throw a
DuplicateSerialNumberException, which must be catched to display a message
indicating that, then the user must be prompted again to enter a new serial number.
Further bad entries will result in the same action; that is throwing of the
DuplicateSerialNumberException object, catching it to display the message, and
the user is prompted again. Effectively, this process will repeat indefinitely until the
user enters a correct serial number. Again, you may, and should, create a private
helping method to find if a duplicate exists in the array. See Figure 2 for illustration.
o Finally, once all the duplicate serial numbers are removed, the new information of
the objects in the wsArr[] must be copied to the output file. This output file has now
the correct information.
• Upon the return of the fixInventory() call in the main() method, the program must use the
displayFileContents() method to display the information of both the
Initial_Cargoship_Info.txt file, as well as the created output file. See Figure 3 for
illustration.
Hint: You must carefully keep track of the opening and closing of these files.
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Below are sample snapshots of the program behavior for further illustrations:
Figure 1: Detecting Existing Files
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Figure 2: Detecting Existing Serial Numbers
Figure 3: Displaying File Contents (partial image)
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Submitting Assignment 2
– For this assignment, you are allowed to work individually, or in a group of a maximum of 2
students (i.e. you and one other student). You and your teammate must however be in the same
section of the course. Groups of more than 2 students = zero mark for all members!
– Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Zip together with the source codes.
– Students will have to submit their assignments (one copy per group) using the Moodle system
(please check for your section submission).
– Naming convention for zip file: Create one zip file, containing all source files and produced
documentation for your assignment using the following naming convention:
The zip file should be called a#_StudentName_StudentID, where # is the number of the
assignment and StudentName/StudentID is your name and ID number respectively. Use
your “official” name only – no abbreviations or nicknames; capitalize the usual “last”
name. Inappropriate submissions will be heavily penalized. For example, for the first
assignment, student 12345678 would submit a zip file named like: a1_MikeSimon_123456.zip. if working in a group, the name should look like: a1_MikeSimon_12345678-AND-Linda-Jackson_98765432.zip.
– If working in a team, only one of the members can upload the assignment. Do NOT upload the
file for each of the members!
ð Important: Following your submission, a demo is required (please refer to the course
outline for full details). The marker will inform you about the demo times. Please notice
that failing to demo your assignment will result in zero mark regardless of your
submission.
Evaluation Criteria for Assignment 2 (10 points)
Part I (5 points) 5
UML class diagram describing the classes and
the class relationships, based on problem
specification.
0.5
Programming style, Comments and Javadoc. 0.5
Implementation of class hierarchy, abstract class,
handling exception, methods (constructor,
accessor, mutator, helping, static), method
overriding, access rights, etc.
2.5
CargoTest code (main class). 0.5
Output test cases (correctness and completeness). 1
Part II (5 points) 5
Cargoship & DuplicateSerialNumberException
classes
0.5 pt
Correct implementation to fix the inventory 4 pt
displayFileContents() method 0.5 pt
