ucsb-cs56-go

Travel recommendations based on real time data for weather, traffic, and crowd.

Names

• Sasha
• Xinyi
• Angie
• Sean
• Sarita
• Siqi

Agreements

• Communicate! If you don't know how to do something/if you feel in over your head/if you feel like can't pull your own weight, Communicate!
• Respect each others ideas
• Be present, show up, don't bail!

Who is this app for?

• PERSON A: Already knows what they want to do and want a convenient way to check weather/driving distances for multiple locations at once.
• PERSON B: People who are looking for convenient travel suggestions but do not care about where they go.

What we want to include:

HOMEPAGE:

List of activities to choose from (including custom search if activity is not listed) for Person A OR Questionnaire for people who do not know what they want to do for Person B

AFTER GENERATING LIST OF ACTIVITIES:

option to filter results based on

• Weather
• Driving/walking distance from location (May use Google Maps API)
• Indoor or Outdoor
• Price
• Crowds
• Location (you are here)
• Campsite availability?

What can be included later:

• Reviews/rating
• Places outside of california/international
• A “What’s nearby?” widget

Current steps to compile and run application

1. Create the database with mLab and MongoDB

• Go into mLab and create a new database named go.
• In the repository, cp env.sh.EXAMPLE env.sh in order to make an env.sh file.
• In the go database create a new user and record the username and password into the env.sh file.
• Also record the name of database, host name, and port name which can be found in the go database page.
• In the database, create two collections (counters and places).
• Add document in counters and add this code below { "_id": "placeId", "seq": 0 }
• Your places collection should be empty.

2. Add data to the database

• Go into the go repository. Type . env.sh in command line
• Type mvn compile and then mvn exec:java
• In a separate tab in command line, go into the testdata file (in the go repository)
• Typing curl http://localhost:4567/api/places should give you [ ]
• Typing curl -d @place1.json http://localhost:4567/api/places should add the first place to the database
• Now when you type curl http://localhost:4567/api/places again, the first place and its id should show up. If you go into your places collection in your mLab database, you should see the first place.
• Now redo curl -d ... but with place2 and place3

3. Run the application

• If you type localhost:4567/api/places in your web browser's search bar, you should see the list of places that you have added
• If you type localhost:4567/ in the search bar and click on the places tab in the nav bar, you should see the list of places in a more readable format

For more detailed tutorials on databases, visit these repos:

• https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-pconrad/sparkjava-rest-mlab-frontend
• https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-pconrad/sparkjava-mongodb-mlab-tutorial
• https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-pconrad/sparkjava-rest-with-mlab