Description
Overview
For this assignment you are to write a program which stores a set of records in an ordered dictionary
implemented using a binary search tree (you do not need to implement an AVL tree). Each internal
node of the binary search tree will store a record of the form (word,type,data), where word, type,
and data are of type String. The attribute word of a record can be any string, while type and data
can only have the following values:
• “text”: this means that the data part of the record is any string,
• “audio”: this means that the data part of the record is the name of an audio file. The only
audio files that we will consider are of type “.wav” and “.mid”.
• “image”: this means that the data part of the record is the name of an image file. The only
image files that we will consider are of type “.gif” and “.jpg”.
1.1 Comparing Keys
In each record (word,type,data) the pair of attributes (word,type) will be used as the key. To
process the binary tree we need to be able to compare the keys of the records. Comparison between
two keys (word1,type1) and (word2,type2) is done in the following manner:
• the keys are equal if word1 = word2 and type1 = type2;
• the key (word1,type1) is smaller than the key (word2,type2) if either:
– word1 lexicographically precedes word2, or
– word1 = word2 and type1 lexicographically precedes type2.
Consider, for example, an ordered dictionary storing the following records:
• r1 =(“computer”,”text”,“An electronic machine frequently used by Computer Science students.”)
• r2 =(“computer”,”image”,“computer.gif”)
• r3 =(“flower”,”image”,“flower.jpg”)
• r4 =(“ping”,”audio”,“ping.wav”)
• r5 =(“course”,”text”,”A series of lessons, for example CS2210”)
The key (“computer”,”text”) of r1 is larger than the key (“computer”,”image”) of r2 because “image” lexicographically precedes “text”. Also the key of r2 is smaller than the key (“flower”,”image”)
of r3 because “computer” lexicographically precedes “flower”.
1.2 Text-Based User Interface
Your program will provide a simple text-based user interface that will allow users to interact with
the ordered dictionary through the use of the following commands.
• get word
If the ordered dictionary has records containing the given word, then each one of these records
(word,type,data) will be processed in the following manner:
– if type = “text”, then print data on the screen,
– if type = “audio”, then play the audio file whose name is stored in data,
– if type = “image”, then display the image stored in the file whose name is stored in data.
If no record in the ordered dictionary contains the specified word in its key attribute then
the program must print a message indicating that the word is not in the dictionary and then
it must print (i) the word stored in the ordered dictionary that immediately precedes word
in lexicographic order (if any), and (ii) the word in the ordered dictionary that immediately
follows word in lexicographic order (if any).
So, for example, if in the above ordered dictionary the user enters the command get ping your
program must play the file “ping.wav”. If the user enters the command get computer, first
your program must display the image in file “computer.gif” and then it must print the text
“An electronic machine frequently used by Computer Science students.”. If the user enters the
command get homework your program should print the following:
The word homework is not in the ordered dictionary.
Preceding word: flower
Following word: ping
If the user enters the command get abacus your program should print:
The word abacus is not in the ordered dictionary.
Preceding word:
Following word: computer
• delete word type
Removes from the ordered dictionary the record with key (word,type), or if no such record
exists, it prints
No record in the ordered dictionary has key (word,type).
• put word type data
Inserts the record (word,type,data) into the ordered dictionary if there is no record with key
(word,type) already there; otherwise it prints
A record with the given key (word,type) is already in the ordered dictionary.
• list prefix
Here prefix is a string with one or more letters. Your program must print all the words (if
any) in the ordered dictionary that start with prefix (if prefix is a word in the ordered
dictionary, it must be printed also). If several records in the dictionary store the same word w
and w starts with prefix, then the word w will be printed as many times as records contain it.
For example, for the above ordered dictionary if the user enters list co, your program must
print
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computer, computer, course
If the user enters list ab, your program must print
No words in the ordered dictionary start with prefix ab
If the user enters list course, your program must print
course
• smallest
Prints the record with smallest key in the ordered dictionary. For the above ordered dictionary
the command smallest must print: computer,image,computer.gif.
• largest
Prints the record with largest key in the ordered dictionary. For the above ordered dictionary
the command largest must print: ping,audio,ping.wav.
• finish
This command terminates the program.
2 Classes to Implement
You are to implement at least these Java classes: Pair, Record, OrderedDictionary,
DictionaryException, and UserInterface. You can implement more classes if you need to. You
must write all the code yourself. You cannot use code from the textbook, the Internet, or any
other sources: however, you may implement the algorithms discussed in class.
2.1 Pair
This class represents the key attribute of a record in the ordered dictionary. Each key has two parts:
word and type. Attribute word is a string of one or more letters; the letters in word must be
converted to lower case. The attribute type can be “text”, “audio”, or “image”, as specified
above. For this class you must implement all and only the following public methods:
• public Pair(String word, String type): A constructor which initializes a new Pair object
with the specified word and type.
• public String getWord(): Returns the word stored in this Pair object.
• public String getType(): Returns the type stored in this Pair object.
• public int compareTo(Pair k): Returns 0 if the key stored in this Pair object is equal to
k, returns -1 if the key stored in this Pair object is smaller than k, and it returns 1 otherwise.
You can implement any other methods that you want to in this class, but they must be declared as
private methods (i.e. not accessible to other classes).
2.2 Record
This class represents a record in the ordered dictionary. Each record consists of two parts: a key
and the data associated with the key. For this class, you must implement all and only the following
public methods:
• public Record(Pair key, String data): A constructor which initializes a new Record object with the specified key and data. If the type in the key is “audio” or “image”, then data
stores the name of the corresponding audio or image file.
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• public Pair getKey(): Returns the key stored in this Record object.
• public String getData(): Returns the data stored in this Record object.
You can implement any other methods that you want to in this class, but they must be declared as
private methods.
2.3 OrderedDictionary
This class implements an ordered dictionary using a binary search tree. You must use a Record
object to store the data contained in each node of the tree. In your binary search tree only the
internal nodes will store information. The leaves will be nodes storing null Record objects.
The key for an internal node will be the Pair object from the Record stored in that node.
Hint. You might want to implement a class Node to represent the nodes of the binary search
tree. Each node will store a reference to a Record object, and references to its left child, right child,
and parent. When comparing two node keys you need to use method compareTo from class Pair.
In the OrderedDictionary class you must implement all the public methods specified in the
OrderedDictionaryADT interface, shown below, and the constructor
public OrderedDictionary()
You can download OrderedDictionaryADT.java from the course’s website.
public interface OrderedDictionaryADT {
/* Returns the Record object with key k, or it returns null if such a record is
not in the dictionary. */
public Record get (Pair k);
/* Inserts r into the ordered dictionary. It throws a DictionaryException if a
record with the same key as r is already in the dictionary. */
public void put (Record r) throws DictionaryException;
/* Removes the record with key k from the dictionary. It throws a
DictionaryException if the record is not in the dictionary. */
public void remove (Pair k) throws DictionaryException;
/* Returns the successor of k (the record from the ordered dictionary with
smallest key larger than k); it returns null if the given key has no
successor. The given key DOES NOT need to be in the dictionary. */
public Record successor (Pair k);
/* Returns the predecessor of k (the record from the ordered dictionary with
largest key smaller than k; it returns null if the given key has no
predecessor. The given key DOES NOT need to be in the dictionary. */
public Record predecessor (Pair k);
/* Returns the record with smallest key in the ordered dictionary. Returns null
if the dictionary is empty. */
public Record smallest ();
/* Returns the record with largest key in the ordered dictionary. Returns null
if the dictionary is empty. */
public Record largest ();
}
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To implement this interface, you need to declare your OrderedDictinary class as follows:
public class OrderedDictionary implements OrderedDictionaryADT {
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}
You can implement any other methods that you want to in this class, but they must be declared
as private methods.
2.4 DictionaryException
This is the class implementing the class of exceptions thrown by the put and remove methods of
OrderedDictionary.
2.5 UserInterface
This class implements the user interface and it contains the main method, declared with the usual
method header:
public static void main(String[] args)
You can implement any other methods that you want to in this class, but they must be declared
as private methods. The input to the program will be a file containing the records that are to be
stored in the ordered dictionary. Therefore, to run the program you will type this command:
java UserInterface inputFile
where inputFile is the name of the file containing the input for the program. The format for this file
is as follows. The first line contains a word and the data associated with it appears in the second
line. The third line contains another word with its associated data in the fourth line, and so on. For
example an input file might be the following one:
course
A series of talks or lessons, for example, CS2210.
computer
An electronic machine frequently used by Computer Science students.
homework
Very enjoyable work that students need to complete outside the classroom.
roar
roar.wav
flower
flower.jpg
In this example, the first three words, course, computer, and homework have type “text”, while
roar has type “audio”, and flower has type “image”. The type needs to be inferred from
the data. If the data only contains one string of the form “x.y”, where y = “.wav” or y =
“.mid” then the type is “audio”, if y = “.jpg” or y = “.gif” then the type is “image”; otherwise the type is “text”. The Record object for the word “course” will store ((“course”,”text”),
“A series of talks or lessons, for example, CS2210.”). The Record object for the word
“roar” will store ((“roar”,”audio”),”roar.wav”); and the Record for “flower” will store
((“flower”,”image”),”flower.jpg”).
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Important Notes
• If the main method is as above, then the name of the input file will be stored in args[0].
• The word attribute of each key must be converted to lower case before being stored in the
dictionary, so that capitalization does not matter when looking for a word in the dictionary.
• To make it easier for the TA’s to test your program, you are required to use method
read (String label)
from the provided StringReader class to read user commands entered from the keyboard.
Class StringReader.java can be downloaded from the course’s website. The above method
prints on the screen the label supplied as parameter and then it reads one line of input from
the keyboard; the line read is returned as a String to the invoking method. So, for example,
to ask the user to type some input you might use this code fragment in your program:
StringReader keyboard = new StringReader();
String line = keyboard.read(“Enter next command: “);
• To play a sound file you must use the provided Java class SoundPlayer.java, which can be
downloaded from the course’s website; you will use method play(String fileName) to play
the named audio file. To display an image, you must use the PictureViewer.java class, which
can be downloaded from the course’s website; you will use method show(String fileName)
to display a .jpg or .gif file.
A MultimediaException will be thrown by methods play and show if the named files cannot
be found or if they cannot be processed. Your program must catch these exceptions and print
appropriate messages.
• Your program must print an appropriate message if an invalid command is entered.
Hint. You might find useful the StringTokenizer Java class and methods toLowerCase() and
startsWith(String prefix) from class String.
3 Testing your Program
We will run a test program called TestDict to make sure that your implementation of
OrderedDictionary has the properties specified above. We will supply you with a copy of TestDict
to test your implementation. We will also run other tests on your software to check whether it works
properly.
4 Coding Style
Your mark will be based partly on your coding style. Among the things that we will check, are
• Variable and method names should be chosen to reflect their purpose in the program.
• Comments, indenting, and white spaces should be used to improve readability.
• No variable declarations should appear outside methods (“instance variables”) unless they
contain data which is to be maintained in the object from call to call. In other words, variables
which are needed only inside methods, whose values do not have to be remembered until the
next method call, should be declared inside those methods.
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• All variables declared outside methods (“instance variables”) should be declared private (not
protected), to maximize information hiding. Any access to the variables should be done with
accessor methods (like getWord() and getType() for class Pair).
5 Marking
Your mark will be computed as follows.
• Program compiles, produces meaningful output: 2 marks.
• TestDict tests pass: 4 marks.
• UserInterface tests pass: 4 marks
• Coding style: 2 marks.
• Ordered Dictionary implementation: 4 marks.
• UserInterface program implementation: 4 marks.
6 Submitting Your Program
You are required to submit an electronic copy of your program through OWL. Please do not put your
code in sub-directories as this makes it harder for the TAs to mark the assignments. Also, please do
not compress your files.
If you submit your program more than once, please send me an email message to let me know.
We will take the latest program submitted as the final version, and we will deduct marks accordingly
if it is late.
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