com.gmscheduler.model
Class ScheduleUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.gmscheduler.model.ScheduleUtil

public class ScheduleUtil
extends java.lang.Object

The Schedule Utility is the buisness logic for parsing schedules as well as finding busy times. The utility has two methods parseSchedule, which takes a preformatted string and returns a schedule, and findTime which takes a constraint schedule and a linkedlist of busy time schedules.

Version:

1.2

Author:

Peter Deschere, Ashton Galya, Rebecca Beale, Jason Fillo

See Also:

Timeframe, Schedule, Person, com.gmscheduler.model.DatabaseManager;

Constructor Summary

ScheduleUtil()

Method Summary

Schedule	findTime(Schedule freetime, java.util.LinkedList<Schedule> schedules) Finds the remaining free time from the free time constraint compared against the busy time of all schedules.
Schedule	parseSchedule(java.lang.String str) This method simply takes in the big list of times and days, breaks them apart and sends them to the parse method which handles the actual parsing.
Schedule	removeTimeframe(Schedule s, Timeframe t) Removes a Timeframe from a Schedule, also from the database.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ScheduleUtil

public ScheduleUtil()

Method Detail

parseSchedule

public Schedule parseSchedule(java.lang.String str)

This method simply takes in the big list of times and days, breaks them apart and sends them to the parse method which handles the actual parsing. The results of the parse method are then added to a schedule object which is returned.

Parameters:

str - is the big long list of times that a user submits.

Returns:

a schedule object containing the parsed times from the string.

findTime

public Schedule findTime(Schedule freetime,
                         java.util.LinkedList<Schedule> schedules)

Finds the remaining free time from the free time constraint compared against the busy time of all schedules.

Parameters:

freetime - The original non-busy time in which to constrain all other busy times.

schedules - A linked list of Schedules that are busy time.

Returns:

A schedule of free time constrained by the original free time and the list of busy schedules.

removeTimeframe

public Schedule removeTimeframe(Schedule s,
                                Timeframe t)

Removes a Timeframe from a Schedule, also from the database.

Parameters:

s - The schedule to remove the Timeframe from.

t - The Timeframe to be removed.

Returns:

The original Schedule less the timeframe.