Rss Feed Activity

Build Requirements

1. Java SE Development Kit 8 or higher
2. Java SE Runtime Environment 8 or higher
3. Apache Ant
4. Preferably MacOS (where it has been tested fully).

Build Instructions

1. Download files to your local machine.
2. In the root directory of the project, enter ant clean compile jar in your terminal of choice to create a compiled jar file.
3. To run, type java -jar build/jar/RssFeedActivity.jar if you are in the project root.
4. You can use the included companies.xml file in the root project directory as your input, or create your own. Just make sure the XML file is well-formed and complies with the input file requirements.

Testing Instructions

• Type ant test in your terminal (making sure you're in the root project directory) to run the included JUnit tests.

Input File Requirements

1. The input file must be a well-formed XML file.
2. The root element should be <list>.
3. Within <list>, you can have multiple <company name=""> elements with a string name attribute.
4. Furthermore, each <company> elements can have multiple <url> elements with valid URLs.

Assumptions

1. The company RSS feed is RSS version 2.0 as stated in the <rss> element.
2. Input of company and URL key value pairs is from an XML document meeting the above mentioned requirements.