Task 0: Update your repository

For this seminar, you will work with the same forked repository as previously. We assume you already have the upstream remote set from Seminar 03 (if not, please follow task 0a from that seminar).

Task 0a: Update your main branch

First, you need to fetch new changes from the upstream repository and update your local main branch:

git switch main
git pull upstream main

Then you need to update the main branch in your forked repository:

git push origin main

Task 0b: Create a new branch for this seminar

For the first time, the whole team will work on this task together in one branch:

git switch -c seminar-12

Task 1: Discover changes

Look at the project structure and try to understand what happened. Think about the impact. Could you tell why this is beneficial?

Task 2: Asynchronous import

This task is to add the asynchronicity to the import operation. In order to do so, a small refactoring of the import needed to be done.

Task 2.1: Study the asynchronous export

Look at the AsyncExporter and ExportAction classes. Could you explain why are those classes placed in the UI? Could you explain why this modification is correct?

Task 2.2: Implement asynchronous import

Get yourself inspired and implement the import operation in a similar way.

Task 3: List departments in CLI

Now lets focus on CLI and add there a new command.

To run the CLI application, you first need to build the whole project:

mvn clean package

And then you can run it like this:

java -jar ./employee-records-cli-app/target/employee-records-cli.jar list-employees

Hint: you can run the CLI application from the IDEA but you need to edit the run configuration, so you can specify the CLI arguments:

Task 3.1: Study ListEmployeesCommand

Look how the ListEmployeesCommand class is implemented and how it is incorporated in the CLI application.

Task 3.2: Implement ListDepartmentsCommand

Get yourself inspired and implement the list departments command in a similar way.

Task 4: Add new department via CLI

Introduce new command for adding departments. It is up to you how the arguments will look like.

Task 4.1: Verify newly added department

Try both CLI and GUI to see that the department was added to the application and is available.