GameStore App

A JavaFX-based application that simulates an online game store, offering both admin and user functionalities. This project is built as part of a class project, developed in milestones, progressively adding features from handling inventory to administration.

Features

• Admin Functions:
  • Manage inventory (view, edit, delete products).
  • Search products and update quantities.
• Customer Functions:
  • Browse products, add/remove from shopping cart.
  • Update cart quantities and checkout.
• Data Persistence:
  • Save and load store data to/from JSON files.
• Remote Admin App:
  • Remotely manage the store via network communication.
• Sorting:
  • Sort products and cart by name, date, or price.
• Unit Testing:
  • Verify core functions of the store.

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Milestones Overview

✔️ Milestone 1: Initial Class Design

• Designed main classes for the app.
• Implemented navigation menus.
• Handles user input and validation. Note: Experimented with a Console app version before transitioning to JavaFX

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✔️ Milestone 2: Admin Functions

• Implemented admin functions for managing the inventory:
• Display, edit, delete products.
• Search for products and update quantities.

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✔️ Milestone 3: Customer Functions

• Implemented customer shopping functions:
• Display inventory and search for products.
• Add/remove items from the shopping cart.
• Update quantities in the cart and perform checkout.

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✔️ Milestone 4: Save and Load Data using a Text File

• Store data now saves to a text file in JSON format on program exit.
• Data is loaded on reading the text file.
• Used Maven to incorporate the Jackson library for data serialization.

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✔️ Milestone 5: Sorting Data

• Add sorting features to inventory and cart:
• Sorting by name and price.
• Numerous refactors, Admin and User controllers extend the Base controller.

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✔️ Milestone 6: Remote Admin App

• Developed an admin app to control the GUI via network communication:
• CRUD operations are performed on the GUI (server) app and parses commands.

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Tools Used

• JavaFX (GUI framework)
• Maven (dependency management)
• Jackson (for JSON serialization)
• JUnit (for unit testing)

Installation & Running this application

1. Open VScode

   • Ensure the following extensions are installed:
     • Extension Pack for Java
     • Maven for Java

2. Clone the repository by:

   Using VScode's git clone feature

   or

   git clone https://github.com/Andrew-Forster/gamestore

3. Open the mainapp.java file and click the run button at the top right.