⌛⌛ Country data (XML)¶

The submission consists of a Maven project. Place your answer into files pom.xml, src/main/java/fi/tuni/prog3/round8/xmlcountries/Country.java and src/main/java/fi/tuni/prog3/round8/xmlcountries/CountryData.java in the directory Round8/xmlcountries. Remember to pull task material from student_template_project.

As you could probably deduct from the above the task is submitted as a Maven project file and its subdirectory src under which the code files defined into the package fi.tuni.prog3.round8.xmlcountries are found.

In this task you will try reading and writing XML data using a suitable library called jdom2: https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/wiki/JDOM2-A-Primer. The course material shows an example of a Maven project file that defines jdom2 as a library dependency.

The base data for the task consists of a sample from open data published by the world bank containing the area, population and gross domestic product for a handful of countries. You need to implement the classes Country and CountryData for processing this data so that they have at least the following features. You can decide the rest of the details yourself.

• Class Country stores the name of the country (string), area (double), population (long) and gross domestic product (double).

  • Defined in the package fi.tuni.prog3.round8.xmlcountries (i.e. set the line package fi.tuni.prog3.round8.xmlcountries; into the very beginning of the class).

  • Implements the interface Comparable<Country> so that the comparison is based on the name of the country according to the natural order of the String class.

  • A public member function String toString() that returns a String representation of the country in the form shown in the example outputs: first the name of the country, and after it the area, population and gross national product, each on separate lines and indented with two spaces. Double values with the precision of one decimal.

  • Public member functions String getName(), double getArea(), long getPopulation() and double getGdp() that return the data their names suggest.

• Class CountryData offers two public static member functions for reading and writing country data in XML format.

  • Defined in the package fi.tuni.prog3.round8.xmlcountries.

  • List<Country> readFromXmls(String areaFile, String populationFile, String gdpFile) reads country data from the XML files named by the parameters.

    • The files contain information about the area, population and gross domestic product of the countries as suggested by the file names. Note how the data is in three separate files.

    • Deduct the structure of the files by investigating the example input files. The structure of each file is identical: information for one country is in field elements inside a record element. Each field element has an attribute “name” that describes what information the element in question contains.

    • The function returns some kind of a list implementing the interface List<Country> that contains the Country objects depicting the read data. You must hence combine the data read from the three XML files into Country objects.

  • void writeToXml(List<Country> countries, String countryFile) writes the information depicted by Country objects in the list countries in XML format into the file named by the parameter countryFile.

    • Has a root element countries which contains country elements. Each country element contains the information of one country in its child elements name, area, population and gdp.

    • Check the exact output format from the example outputs. They have been created using the Format.getPrettyFormat() formatter of the jdom2 library.

The automatic tests (and the ones given below) assume that you make the following definitions in your pom.xml project file:

• The value of artifactId is xmlcountries.

• The value of version element is 1.0.

• A onejar plugin definition where the value of mainClass is CountryTest.

  • CountryTest is the name of the given test class (described below).