Social Cataloging Platform 📕

Social cataloging platform application running in CLI, implemented using Java 19, with similar functionality to Goodreads: a place for people to review books and connect with other readers and authors.

Table of Contents 📑

• Stage 1
• Stage 2
• Class Hierarchy
• Functionality
• Screenshots

Stage 1️⃣

Defining and Implementing the System 📖

Creating a list of 10 actions possible in the system and at least 8 kinds of objects. The application features:

• Simple classes featuring private/protected fields with accessor methods (getters/setters);
• Collections capable of managing the aforementioned object, with at least one such collection being sorted;
• Use of inheritance for creating additional classes and for use inside the Collections
• Service classes to expose the system's functionality
• Service calls from the Menu classes, representing the application's interface for the user.

Class Hierarchy 📊

1. Abstract Classes:

• AbstractEntity
• Shelf
• User

2. Regular Classes:

• Author - derived from User
• Librarian - derived from User
• Reader - derived from User
• Book
• Connection
• Message
• PersonalShelf - derived from Shelf
• SharedShelf - derived from Shelf
• Review
• ReadingChallenge

3. Records:

• Message

4. Enums:

• BookGenre
• ShelfType
• UserType

Functionality

0. General Functionality ❕

You can log in or register as a new user in the command-line interface. Afterwards, you'll be prompted by an interactive menu with the options at your disposal.

1. Reader Functionality 📃

As a reader, you can:

• Connect with others users: readers or authors;
• Add or remove books from one of your shelves;
• Shelves are either personal or shared, between you and multiple other readers (there's no limit on how many users can share a shelf, there's always room for more!);
• Set reading challenges;
• Check top books, ranked by own rating.

2. Author Functionality ✒️

As an author, you can:

• Use the platform to promote your books;
• Completely remove your book from the platform;
• Check your current followers;
• Check your average rating, determined as the mean of the ratings that your books have gotten.

3. Librarian Functionality ✒️

As a librarian, you can:

• Use the platform to recommend books;
• Check your current followers;
• Add posts on your personal book club, to share your book knowledge with the readers.

Stage 2️⃣

Extending the System 📖

The application now features:

• A template for the menus, using the template method pattern;

• A database connection, using JDBC;

• CRUD operations on the database, using the repository pattern;

• Singleton generics for these operations;

• A listener functionality, to store the actions performed in a log file;

• A logger functionality, that notifies the user that their actions have been logged;

Screenshots 📷

To do! Add screenshots.