Project: ExpressLibrary

ExpressLibrary is a desktop application used for librarians to easily track the status of book in the library. The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added a borrow command
    • What it does: Allows the user to lend a specified book in the book list to a specified person in the person list with a given due date.
    • Justification: This is a key feature for ExpressLibrary because it allows the user to track which books are borrowed by which persons and when they are due.
    • Highlights: This command was quite challenging to implement because there weren’t any existing commands that dealt with two objects from two different lists (AB-3 had no book list). Thus, it was interesting to come up with ways to accept two different indexes using the existing ArgumentMultimap parser system.
  • New Feature: Added a return command
    • What it does: Allows the user to return a person’s specified borrowed book back so that it is available to borrow again
    • Justification: This is another essential feature for ExpressLibrary because it allows the user to reset the status of a book from being borrowed to available again and removes the book from the respective person’s borrowed books list.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:
    • Reviewed pull requests from Kenz
  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • Improved on the editBook command to account for cases where a user could edit borrow or due dates even if the book isn’t borrowed (#163)
    • Improved validation of dates when editing dates in editBook command and when specifying dates in the borrow command (#176)
    • Added better error messages for users when index-parsing issues occur (#179)
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Added documentation for borrow
      • Added documentation for return
    • Developer Guide:
      • Added section on how the borrow and return commands were implemented
      • Added use case section on deleting a person
  • Community: