ConsoleTwitter
Implementation of a console-based social networking application (similar to Twitter) satisfying the scenarios below.
Scenarios
Posting: Alice can publish messages to a personal timeline
```
> Alice -> I love the weather today
> Bob -> Damn! We lost!
> Bob -> Good game though.
```
Reading: Bob can view Alice’s timeline
```
> Alice
I love the weather today (5 minutes ago)
> Bob
Good game though. (1 minute ago)
Damn! We lost! (2 minutes ago)
```
Following: Charlie can subscribe to Alice’s and Bob’s timelines, and view an aggregated list of all subscriptions
```
> Charlie -> I'm in New York today! Anyone want to have a coffee?
> Charlie follows Alice
> Charlie wall
Charlie - I'm in New York today! Anyone want to have a coffee? (2 seconds ago)
Alice - I love the weather today (5 minutes ago)
> Charlie follows Bob
> Charlie wall
Charlie - I'm in New York today! Anyone wants to have a coffee? (15 seconds ago)
Bob - Good game though. (1 minute ago)
Bob - Damn! We lost! (2 minutes ago)
Alice - I love the weather today (5 minutes ago)
```
Details
* The application uses the console for input and output.
* Users submit commands to the application.
* There are four commands. “posting”, “reading”, etc. are not part of the commands.
* Commands always start with the user’s name.
* posting: user name -> message
* reading: user name
* following: user name follows another user
* wall: user name wall
How to run the application
* Clone the repository.
* Enter repository folder.
* Run the app with:
`.\gradlew run -q --console=plain` in Windows or
`./gradlew run -q --console=plain` in Linux.
* Alternatively you can also run from within the IDE:
Load the class `com.lookiero.ConsoleTwitter` and run the `main()` function.
* To stop the app, `press Ctrl + C`
Tests
A series of tests have been added with the following coverage:
To run the tests, execute `.\gradlew test` (`./gradlew test` in Linux)
Report is generated in `.\consoletwitter\build\reports\tests\test\index.html`