Assignment 2 Tutorial Letter

Assignment 2

1. Introduction

Please use CMake (and not qmake) when setting up your assignment projects.

Qt Designer should not be used to design user interfaces, and you are expected to manually set up

GUIs to ensure that you properly handle memory using Qt’s parent-child functionality. Good programming practices should be followed.

Follow standard naming conventions: class names start with a capital letter, variable and function names start with a lowercase letter, using camelCase for names made up of multiple words. Ensure consistent code layout and use of blank lines. Use forward class declarations in header files. Use initialiser lists in constructors.

Have proper GUI management: setting cursor focus, sequential tabbing, clearing input widgets (like text input fields being cleared and spin boxes being returned to some default value), and enabling and disabling buttons as appropriate. Provide appropriate user feedback.

Your code should build and run without any warnings.

2.  Questions

Question 1   

Study the following UML class diagram:   

The UML class diagram is an initial design of classes for a conference registration application.    

There are three types of registration allowed for the conference: standard registration, student registration and invited guests registration. The standard registration fee is the standard fee (stored in STANDARD_FEE). For those registered as students, the conference fee is half the price of the standard registration fee. For those registered as guests, the conference fee is 10% of the standard registration fee.

An instance of RegistrationList contains a list of Registration*. No two registrations are allowed to have attendees with the same e-mail addresses, unless the names are different. You should be able to query a RegistrationList whether a person (by the name) is already registered for the conference. A RegistrationList can also return the number of attendees that are registered for the conference from an institution. Similarly, you can request the total registration fees for a type (“Registration”, “StudentRegistration”, “GuestRegistration” or “All”) of registration. You are expected to use   Qt’s   metaobject   system   to   access   the   type   of   a   Registration    in RegistrationList.

Write a GUI application that allows users to register for a conference. The GUI should display the current list of registrations, including the respective registration fees, in the RegistrationList at all times, using a table widget. The interface should also allow users  to  request  and  view  the  results  of  the  various  operations  supported  by  the RegistrationList class.  

Modify the GUI in Question 1, to give the user an option to save the registration list. Allow the user to choose the file, using the standard file dialog, where the XML formatted registration list should be saved.  

Question 3   

Add another class to Question 2, named RegistrationListReader, that can parse the XML formatted asset list using SAX, and create and return a list of Registration objects.  

To test the RegistrationListReader class, modify the GUI in Question 2, to allow the list of Registrations to be read in so that they can be appended to the RegistrationList maintained by the application. Note that the user can request to read in the XML formatted file when there are Registrations, or none, in the RegistrationList. Use the standard file dialog to assist the user in choosing the XML formatted file.  

Question 4   

Implement a factory class (RegistrationFactory) using the Factory method design pattern, which creates and returns a Registration based on an appropriate string argument and other arguments (for initializing concrete Registration objects) provided.  Make  the  RegistrationFactory  an  implementation  of  the  Singleton pattern.   

Modify the solution in Question 3, so that the parts of the solution that were creating concrete Registration objects (based on the user input and RegistrationListReader) are replaced by appropriate code to utilise the RegistrationFactory.