ACSBook — Mini Social Media Platform

Homework realized for OOP course, second year, FACC-CSIT

made by: Ghindea Daniel - Teodor 325CB

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Synopsis:

This program consists of five important classes that define the properties of the objects used and their functionality.

• App class : Being the core of this program, App class has three important roles:

  • it parses command line arguments to the program;
  • according to the given arguments, it calls a specific function to perform the required task;
  • it has a unique static member acsBook that holds all the information of the platform (hence Database class).

• User class :

  • Defines all the properties of platform users like their userName, password and a series or lists for their followers, followed users, posts, comments & liked posts.
  • Defines behaviors for the users, like creating posts, adding or removing users to their following list, determining the total number of likes received or sorting their posts by date descending

• Post class

  • Defines the properties of the posts like their content, owner, date, number of likes and holds a list of comments
  • Has methods that determine if a post is owned or liked by a certain user, add or remove comments or increment/decrement the number of likes and comments
  • Has a static int member that counts the numberOfPosts to give every post a unique ID

• Comment class

  • Similar to a post, a comment has properties like content, owner, date, an associated post and the number of likes
  • Has similar methods to Post class for liking action
  • It also has a static int member, numberOfComments, for ID identification purposes

• Database class

  • Its purpose is to define how data is stored for processing, similar to a querry sistem
  • It has three main lists: usersList, postsList, commentsList that holds all the required information
  • It has methods that operate on these lists which can determine the existence of any type of object in database, sort posts or rank posts/users on different criteria