⌛⌛ Movie data as a stream¶

Place your code into files named Movie.java and MovieAnalytics.java in the round8/streams directory of your local repository. The test material is available in the corresponding directory in the remote materials repository.

This task concerns basic use of Java streams. The goal is to implement a class MovieAnalytics that offers functions for reading movie data from a file and for processing the data with Java streams. You also need to implement a simple class Movie for representing the movie data.

Implement these two classes as follows:

• The class Movie should have the following public features:

  • Constructor Movie(String title, int releaseYear, int duration, String genre, double score, String director) that initialises the object to hold the movie data provided by the constructor parameters: title, release year, duration, genre, rating score and director.

  • Getter functions for all data of the movie: getTitle(), getReleaseYear(), and so on.

• The class MovieAnalytics should have the following public features:

  • Constructor MovieAnalytics() that initialises an empty container for the movies. For example, a list containing Movie elements will suffice for this task.

  • Static member function Consumer<Movie> showInfo() that returns an object that implements the interface Consumer<Movie> and whose function accept(Movie t) prints out information of the movie t in a single line of the form "title (By director, releaseYear)". The line ends into a new line. See the example output files for details.

  • Member function void populateWithData(String fileName) that reads movie data from the file spedicifed by the parameter.

    • The file is expected to contain lines of the form "title;releaseYear;duration;genre;score;director". That is, each line describes one movie and includes the same set of information that is passed via parameters to the constructor of the Movie class.

      • Straight-forward line splitting by semicolons with the split function of the String class will work fine here. You just need to convert some parts into suitable numbers.

  • Member function Stream<Movie> moviesAfter(int year) that returns a stream that lists all movies released in the year year or later.

  • Member function Stream<Movie> moviesBefore(int year) that returns a stream that lists all movies released in the year year or earlier.

  • Member function Stream<Movie> moviesBetween(int yearA, int yearB) that returns a stream that lists all movies released between the years yearA and yearB, including yearA and yearB.

  • Member function Stream<Movie> moviesByDirector(String director) that returns a stream that lists all movies directed by director.

The last four functions must return a stream that lists the movies in ascending order of release year. Movies with the same release year are ordered by title using the default order of the String objects.

A note about returning a stream: Return a stream that has been set to perform intermediate, but no terminal operations. For example, a stream that lists the unique items of the array int[] ia = [1, 2, 5, 4, 2, 5, 4] in sorted order could be created and returned as return Arrays.stream(ia).distinct().sorted();. The recipient of this stream could then read the values 1, 2, 4 and 5 from the stream.