Blog do projektu Open Source JavaHotel

środa, 30 października 2013

Java properties and UTF-8

Introduction
There is an evergreen problem how to read Java properties from UTF-8 files. The source file should be ISO 8859-1 oriented and even overmighty Hercules cannot contend that.
Solution
But I found simply method which works for me. Just read a file in standard way, change all characters above 128 to Unicode escaped sequence and push through Properties.load method. Source file is available here.

public class ReadUTF8Properties { 

        private static String getFileContent(String name) throws IOException {
// does not work in Google App Engine, use Guava goodies            
//              return new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(name)));
            return Files.toString(new File(name),  Charsets.UTF_8);
        }

        private static String toLatin1(String s) {
                StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();

                for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
                        if (c >= 256 && c < 1000)
                                // 3 digits, add one leading 0
                                b.append("\\u0").append(Integer.toHexString(c));
                        else if (c >= 1000)
                                // 4 digits
                                b.append("\\u").append(Integer.toHexString(c));
                        else
                                b.append(c);
                }
                return b.toString();
        }

        public static Properties readProperties(String propName) throws IOException {

                Properties prop = new Properties();
                String p = toLatin1(getFileContent(propName));
                prop.load(new StringReader(p));
                return prop;
        }

}

wtorek, 15 października 2013

JavaHotel, first version

First version
I uploaded the first version of JavaHotel to Google App Engine. Test version is available: Java hotel for user (U/P user/user) and Java hotel for administrator (U/P admin/admin). Source files are available here. It is Google App Engine version but I'm planning to use it only for demo purpose. Also regular JEE version is created as a primary target. It will be available for Tomcat and Glassfish. Tomcat version is a single web application, Glassfish version is divided into persistence layer available as Session Stateless Bean and business logic layer. It was tested with Derby, Postgress and DB2.
It is the first version and everything is rough. But basic functionality is covered.
  • Prepare database: hotel, users, room, services, pricelist
  • Reservation panel
  • Booking
  • Check-in
  • Registering additional services during the stay
  • Billing
Reservation panel

Empty places denote free rooms, green booked and yellow with guests currently checked-in. Clicking at the empty place allows to make reservation starting from this day forward, clicking at the green allows to make check-in if customer just arrived and clicking at the yellow gives access to options related to stay (for instance: billing)
Reservation

It is the reservation dialog available after clicking at the empty room. User can modify number of days (default is one), calculate rating and enter the customer data. It is also possible to select the customer from the list of customers already registered.
Check-in
Check-in dialog pops up after clicking at the green (reservation) place. It allows transforming reservation to stay and starting billing the guest. In the check-in dialog it is also possible to register additional guests if the booking was done for more then one person.
Registering additional services

After stay has been started it is possible to append additional services to the stay. User can select a standard service prepared before or add a new services ad-hoc.
Billing
During and after the stay a bill can be issued. It is possible to issue more then one bill for one stay and every bill having a different payer. In the tab panel 'Not paid yet' page contains services not paid yet (without the bill issued for them) and 'All billable' contains the list of all services. The payment can be specified as 'Pay now' or 'Not paid now'. There is also possibility to register payment later for bills not paid now.
Conclusion
It is the first version so everything is basic and rough. But the most important functionality is implemented already. Next steps:

  • Booking of more then one room,  searching. For instance: implement scenario like: "Find the first available reservation for 5 persons: two double rooms and one single".
  • Issuing and printing the invoice.
  • Synchronization with calendar. Alerts when reservation or stay expires.