Fri, 21 Jan 2005

Quote Manager Project -- Day 5

OK, I've hacked together an interface that has the fields I need...

And I just did a bit of refactoring to remove most of the duplication. Checking in...

This is a passive application for the moment. I'd like to provide it with an object that it can store the quote data in so that when I click the "Add" button, this object is populated with data. Perhaps this will be called a Quote? I'll just have it be an immutable value object for now...

package com.redsquirrel.quotes.model;

import java.util.Collection;

public class Quote {
    public final String text;
    public final Source source;
    public final Collection<Person> authors;
    public final Person quoter;

    public Quote(String text, Source source, Collection<Person> authors, Person quoter) {
        this.text = text;
        this.source = source;
        this.authors = authors;
        this.quoter = quoter;
    }
}

package com.redsquirrel.quotes.model;

public class Source {
    public final String title;
    public final String page;
    public final String isbn;

    public Source(String title, String page, String isbn) {
        this.title = title;
        this.page = page;
        this.isbn = isbn;
    }
}

package com.redsquirrel.quotes.model;

public class Person {
    public final String firstName;
    public final String lastName;
    public final String url;

    public Person(String firstName, String lastName, String url) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
        this.url = url;
    }
}

So now that I have my immutable value objects, I see that I'm going to be creating these objects rather than populating previously existing ones. Not sure if that's bad or good. I'm really tired right now.

OK, I just realized one of the things I've overlooked. I've only given the user the ability to enter one author per quote! Yikes, I'll have to deal with that later. I want to keep making progress...

OK, I guess this is progress. I've extracted the JButton and all of the JTextComponents into private final fields. I extracted the layout code to a private method. Finally, I added a anonymous ActionListener. Here's what it looks like (sans layout code)...

package com.redsquirrel.quotes.gui;

import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Quote;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Source;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Person;

import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class QuoteManagerPanel extends JPanel {
    private final JTextArea quoteText = new JTextArea(3, 15);
    private final JButton addButton = new JButton("Add");
    private final JTextField source = new JTextField(15);
    private final JTextField isbn = new JTextField(15);
    private final JTextField page = new JTextField(5);
    private final JTextField authorUrl = new JTextField(15);
    private final JTextField quoterUrl = new JTextField(15);
    private final JTextField authorFirstName = new JTextField(7);
    private final JTextField authorLastName = new JTextField(7);
    private final JTextField quoterFirstName = new JTextField(7);
    private final JTextField quoterLastName = new JTextField(7);

    public QuoteManagerPanel() {
        setLayout(new GridBagLayout());

        addButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                Source source = new Source(QuoteManagerPanel.this.source.getText(), page.getText(), isbn.getText());
                Collection authors = new ArrayList();
                authors.add(new Person(authorFirstName.getText(), authorLastName.getText(), authorUrl.getText()));
                Person quoter = new Person(quoterFirstName.getText(), quoterLastName.getText(), quoterUrl.getText());
                new Quote(quoteText.getText(), source, authors, quoter);
            }
        });

        layoutForm();
    }

    private void layoutForm() {
		...
    }
}

Checking in...

To solve the N authors problem, I will peruse the quotes file, find the quote with the greatest number of authors, and provide that many author fields. Let's see...it appears that I quote at least two books that have three authors. I quote the Gang of Four, but refer to the authors in bulk, not individually. I'll update the GUI code to handle up to three authors...

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