Brady Shutt's project for CPE-305
Coplan: The College Planner
Manage important due dates, deadlines, and test days with Coplan!
The way in which this project behaves is a little strange, so some explanation is necesarry.
The core business logic of this project is written in Java. The application works by letting the JVM endlessly run the exported .jar file. The .jar then, indefinitely listens to it's STDIN in a blocking fashion. Upon receiving input, which must be preformmated JSON, the running Java application will handle the 'request', and eventually return a response by writing a JSON message to STDOUT.
A Node.js application is also running. Node.js acts as the HTTP server that clients interract with. Upon receiving a HTTP request, node will, if necesarry, talk to the running JVM via STDIN/STDOUT to fulfill requests.
The Node.js process is essentially acting as the bridge between the client and the business logic.
The Java program handles all the business logic associated with Coplan, by communicating with a Node.js process via JSON-formatted commands sent through STDIN/STDOUT.
Commands are to be formatted in the following way:
- There are two essentail components: 'route', and 'data'
- 'route' specifies the endpoint you want to talk you
- 'data' specifies an object with keys and values pertinant to the endpoint
- If you attempt to access an endpoint without the needed requirements, an error message will be returned
{ route: "createUser", data: { username: "bshutt", firstName: "Brady", lastName: "Shutt", major: "Computer Science" } }
