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