SE401:33:Iteration 4

Plan

Implement User Stories:

6	User wants to modify some of the information in the data source to fit their requirements.	MUST
9	User wants to output the mashup in PHP	MUST

Estimated Duration: 20 hours

Progress

Week 1

Looked at regular expressions

- Researched Java Regex tool for regular expression support

- Added regular expression check in Google Map object to check address data for incompatibility

- Created popup alert to display possible bad addresses

Began RSS formatting functionality

- Added new toolbar icon for RSS Formatting

- Created new object called "FormattedData" to store formatted rss elements

- Added new dialog boxes for formatted data creation and editing

- Modified Google Maps to accept FormattedData objects

Formatting tools

- added dialog box for Google map formatting options

- added two optimising functions, 'remove invalid' and 'finding approximate location'

- removing invalid characters from addresses

- implemented regular expressions to try fix invalid addresses

- created general formatting options dialog box

Week 2

Formatting tools

- removed general formatting options dialog box because not needed at this stage

- Improved approximate location algorithm

Looked at implementing PHP generation

- similar to how we did JavaScript - commenting the code and toggling on save

- would mean writing PHP code generation for all mashup elements

- this would take a long time and is trivial

- would increase code length with redundant PHP/JS/HTML for all file types

- could be improved by re-writing the save methods

- but would be good because it allows for dynamic RSS fetching (performed server side)

Results

User Stories Completed:

6	User wants to modify some of the information in the data source to fit their requirements.	MUST	Completed
9	User wants to output the mashup in PHP	MUST	Time consuming

Decided not implement no.9 due to complexity.

- Would have taken a long time

- Was not the focus of our project

Actual Duration: 15 hours

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