Developer Guide

• Acknowledgements
• GitHub Copilot for coding assistance
• Setting up, getting started
• Design
  • Architecture
  • UI component
  • Logic component
  • Model component
  • Storage component
  • Common classes
• Implementation
  • [Proposed] Undo/redo feature
    • Proposed Implementation
    • Design considerations:
• Documentation, logging, testing, configuration, dev-ops
• Appendix: Requirements
  • Product scope
  • User stories
  • Use cases
  • Use case: Add a person
  • Use case: Edit a person’s information
  • Use case: Add appointment information
  • Use case: Add a remark to a patient’s profile
  • Use case: Search for a patient
  • Use case: Display a list of patients and information
  • Use case: Display a list of patients in a schedule by appointment dates
  • Use case: Sort list of patients by name or appointment
  • Use case: Log information to a patient’s profile
  • Use case: Delete a person
  • Use case: View a patient’s full information
  • Use case: Viewing the help page
  • Use case: Appointment pop-up alert on app start-up
  • Non-Functional Requirements
  • Glossary
• Appendix: Planned Enhancements
• Appendix: Instructions for manual testing
  • Launch and shutdown
  • Deleting a person
  • Saving data

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Acknowledgements

• This project is based on the AddressBook Level 3 project by SE-EDU. It includes reused and adapted ideas, code, and documentation from the AddressBook Level 3 project.

• Reused/adapted components:
  • UI component structure
  • Command structure in Logic
  • Storage management
  • Project architecture and organization
• Additional Tooling used:
  • ChatGPT for help in understanding design patterns

  • GitHub Copilot for coding assistance

Setting up, getting started

Refer to the guide Setting up and getting started.

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Design

Architecture

The Architecture Diagram given above explains the high-level design of the App.

Given below is a quick overview of main components and how they interact with each other.

Main components of the architecture

Main (consisting of classes Main and MainApp) is in charge of the app launch and shut down.

• At app launch, it initializes the other components in the correct sequence, and connects them up with each other.
• At shut down, it shuts down the other components and invokes cleanup methods where necessary.

The bulk of the app’s work is done by the following four components:

• UI: The UI of the App.
• Logic: The command executor.
• Model: Holds the data of the App in memory.
• Storage: Reads data from, and writes data to, the hard disk.

Commons represents a collection of classes used by multiple other components.

How the architecture components interact with each other

The Sequence Diagram below shows how the components interact with each other for the scenario where the user issues the command delete S1234567A.

Each of the four main components (also shown in the diagram above),

• defines its API in an interface with the same name as the Component.
• implements its functionality using a concrete {Component Name}Manager class (which follows the corresponding API interface mentioned in the previous point.)

For example, the Logic component defines its API in the Logic.java interface and implements its functionality using the LogicManager.java class which follows the Logic interface. Other components interact with a given component through its interface rather than the concrete class (reason: to prevent outside component’s being coupled to the implementation of a component), as illustrated in the (partial) class diagram below.

The sections below give more details of each component.

UI component

The API of this component is specified in Ui.java

The UI consists of a MainWindow that is made up of parts e.g.CommandBox, ResultDisplay, PersonListPanel, StatusBarFooter etc. All these, including the MainWindow, inherit from the abstract UiPart class which captures the commonalities between classes that represent parts of the visible GUI.

The UI component uses the JavaFx UI framework. The layout of these UI parts are defined in matching .fxml files that are in the src/main/resources/view folder. For example, the layout of the MainWindow is specified in MainWindow.fxml

The UI component,

• executes user commands using the Logic component.
• listens for changes to Model data so that the UI can be updated with the modified data.
• keeps a reference to the Logic component, because the UI relies on the Logic to execute commands.
• depends on some classes in the Model component, as it displays Person object residing in the Model.

Logic component

API : Logic.java

Here’s a (partial) class diagram of the Logic component:

The sequence diagram below illustrates the interactions within the Logic component, taking execute("delete S1234567A") API call as an example.

How the Logic component works:

1. When Logic is called upon to execute a command, it is passed to an AddressBookParser object which in turn creates a parser that matches the command (e.g., DeleteCommandParser) and uses it to parse the command.
2. This results in a Command object (more precisely, an object of one of its subclasses e.g., DeleteCommand) which is executed by the LogicManager.
3. The command can communicate with the Model when it is executed (e.g. to delete a person).
   Note that although this is shown as a single step in the diagram above (for simplicity), in the code it can take several interactions (between the command object and the Model) to achieve.
4. The result of the command execution is encapsulated as a CommandResult object which is returned back from Logic.

Here are the other classes in Logic (omitted from the class diagram above) that are used for parsing a user command:

How the parsing works:

• When called upon to parse a user command, the AddressBookParser class creates an XYZCommandParser (XYZ is a placeholder for the specific command name e.g., AddCommandParser) which uses the other classes shown above to parse the user command and create a XYZCommand object (e.g., AddCommand) which the AddressBookParser returns back as a Command object.
• All XYZCommandParser classes (e.g., AddCommandParser, DeleteCommandParser, …) inherit from the Parser interface so that they can be treated similarly where possible e.g, during testing.

Model component

API : Model.java

The Model component,

• stores the address book data i.e., all Person objects (which are contained in a UniquePersonList object).
• stores the currently ‘selected’ Person objects (e.g., results of a search query) as a separate filtered list which is exposed to outsiders as an unmodifiable ObservableList<Person> that can be ‘observed’ e.g. the UI can be bound to this list so that the UI automatically updates when the data in the list change.
• stores a UserPref object that represents the user’s preferences. This is exposed to the outside as a ReadOnlyUserPref objects.
• does not depend on any of the other three components (as the Model represents data entities of the domain, they should make sense on their own without depending on other components)

Storage component

API : Storage.java

The Storage component,

• can save both address book data and user preference data in JSON format, and read them back into corresponding objects.
• inherits from both AddressBookStorage and UserPrefStorage, which means it can be treated as either one (if only the functionality of only one is needed).
• depends on some classes in the Model component (because the Storage component’s job is to save/retrieve objects that belong to the Model)

Common classes

Classes used by multiple components are in the seedu.address.commons package.

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Implementation

This section describes some noteworthy details on how certain features are implemented.

[Proposed] Undo/redo feature

Proposed Implementation

The proposed undo/redo mechanism is facilitated by VersionedAddressBook. It extends AddressBook with an undo/redo history, stored internally as an addressBookStateList and currentStatePointer. Additionally, it implements the following operations:

• VersionedAddressBook#commit() — Saves the current address book state in its history.
• VersionedAddressBook#undo() — Restores the previous address book state from its history.
• VersionedAddressBook#redo() — Restores a previously undone address book state from its history.

These operations are exposed in the Model interface as Model#commitAddressBook(), Model#undoAddressBook() and Model#redoAddressBook() respectively.

Given below is an example usage scenario and how the undo/redo mechanism behaves at each step.

Step 1. The user launches the application for the first time. The VersionedAddressBook will be initialized with the initial address book state, and the currentStatePointer pointing to that single address book state.

Step 2. The user executes delete S1234567A command to delete the person with NRIC S1234567A in the address book. The delete command calls Model#commitAddressBook(), causing the modified state of the address book after the delete S1234567A command executes to be saved in the addressBookStateList, and the currentStatePointer is shifted to the newly inserted address book state.

Step 3. The user executes add n/David …​ to add a new person. The add command also calls Model#commitAddressBook(), causing another modified address book state to be saved into the addressBookStateList.

Step 4. The user now decides that adding the person was a mistake, and decides to undo that action by executing the undo command. The undo command will call Model#undoAddressBook(), which will shift the currentStatePointer once to the left, pointing it to the previous address book state, and restores the address book to that state.

The following sequence diagram shows how an undo operation goes through the Logic component:

Similarly, how an undo operation goes through the Model component is shown below:

The redo command does the opposite — it calls Model#redoAddressBook(), which shifts the currentStatePointer once to the right, pointing to the previously undone state, and restores the address book to that state.

Step 5. The user then decides to execute the command list. Commands that do not modify the address book, such as list, will usually not call Model#commitAddressBook(), Model#undoAddressBook() or Model#redoAddressBook(). Thus, the addressBookStateList remains unchanged.

Step 6. The user executes clear, which calls Model#commitAddressBook(). Since the currentStatePointer is not pointing at the end of the addressBookStateList, all address book states after the currentStatePointer will be purged. Reason: It no longer makes sense to redo the add n/David …​ command. This is the behavior that most modern desktop applications follow.

The following activity diagram summarizes what happens when a user executes a new command:

Design considerations:

Aspect: How undo & redo executes:

• Alternative 1 (current choice): Saves the entire address book.
  • Pros: Easy to implement.
  • Cons: May have performance issues in terms of memory usage.
• Alternative 2: Individual command knows how to undo/redo by itself.
  • Pros: Will use less memory (e.g. for delete, just save the person being deleted).
  • Cons: We must ensure that the implementation of each individual command are correct.

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Documentation, logging, testing, configuration, dev-ops

• Documentation guide
• Testing guide
• Logging guide
• Configuration guide
• DevOps guide

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Appendix: Requirements

Product scope

Product Name: Murphy’s List

Target user profile: Administrative assistants for palliative care facilities

• needs to manage a significant number of patient details
• can type fast and prefers CLI to GUI

Value proposition: efficient text-based navigation and access to patient data, allowing quick retrieval and logging of patient information

User stories

Priorities: High (must have) - * * *, Medium (nice to have) - * *, Low (unlikely to have) - *

Priority	As a …​	I want to …​	So that I can…​
* * *	new user	view a help page with a list of available commands	refer to instructions to understand how to use the app
* * *	user	add the contact information of a patient	keep track of the patient base of the clinic
* * *	user	delete a patient	remove their data from the patient list after they leave the facility
* * *	user	display a list of patients and their information
* * *	user	search for a patient’s information using a command/keyword	access a patient’s details quickly without delay
* * *	user	add an appointment of a patient	view the appointment activity of a patient
* *	user	edit the information of a patient	update a patient’s condition and contact details if there are changes
* *	user	add notes to a patient	be reminded of important updates, observations or instructions related to their care
* *	user	log the patient’s treatment progress over time	understand how a patient is responding to his/her respective treatment meth
* *	user	edit the appointment of a patient	reschedule an appointment for a patient easily
* *	user	view appointments in the form of a schedule	easily see all appointments on a specific day
* *	user	tag patients	categorise my patients based on keywords/conditions
* *	user	search for a patient’s information even if keyword matches partially	find patients quicker without having to type full details (eg. full name)
* *	user	sort list of patients	view patient’s details based on specified criteria
* *	user	filter patients based on medical condition	view patients based on certain conditions or severity
* *	user	see a popup alert on the day of a patient’s appointment	remind myself and prepare for a patient’s appointment if needed
*	user	export a patient’s information as a file (eg. PDF, CSV)	store or share the information externally, especially for offline access
*	CLI experienced user	have access to command completion features	complete tasks faster without typing commands fully
*	CLI experienced user	customize command shortcuts	access these commands quickly and more comfortably
*	user	import contact details from external sources	quickly populate the list without manually adding each patient
*	user	archive patient information	have a back up record of their information, even after they are no longer in the facility
*	user	log when certain changes are made with a timestamp	revise my patient history with a reference to a time or date
*	user	set recurring appointment details for patients	avoid repetitive tasks

Use cases

Use case: Add a person

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to add a person.
2. User enters the person’s details (name, phone number, email, address, etc.) with the appropriate prefixes (n/, p/, e/, etc.).
3. The system adds the person to the database.

4. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The user does not provide all required details.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message indicating missing fields.

    Use case resumes at step 2.

• 2b. User enters invalid information.

  • 2b1. The system shows an error message indicating invalid input.

    Use case resumes at step 2.

• 2c. A patient with the user input NRIC already exists in the address book.

  • 2c1. The system shows an error message indicating the existence of a duplicate patient.

    Use case resumes at step 2.

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Use case: Edit a person’s information

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to edit a person.
2. User enters the NRIC of the person to be edited.
3. User enters updated details for the person with the appropriate prefixes.
4. The system updates the person’s information.

5. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message.

    Use case ends.

• 2b. The edited NRIC already exists in the address book.

  • 2b1. The system shows an error message.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Add appointment information

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to add appointment information to a person.
2. User enters the NRIC of the person for whom the appointment is being added.
3. User provides the appointment details.
4. The system adds the appointment information.

5. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message that no person with the given NRIC is found.

    Use case ends.

• 3a. User provides invalid appointment details (e.g., invalid date/time format).

  • 3a1. The system shows an error message indicating invalid input.

    Use case ends.

• 4a. An appointment already exists on patient profile.

  • 4a1. The system overwrites the existing appointment with the new appointment details.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Add a remark to a patient’s profile

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to add a remark to a patient’s profile.
2. User enters the NRIC of the patient.
3. User provides the remark.
4. The system adds the remark to the patient’s profile.

5. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message that no person with the given NRIC is found.

    Use case ends.

• 3a. User provides an empty remark.

  • 3a1. The system shows an error message indicating that the remark cannot be empty.

    Use case ends.

• 3b. User provides an invalid remark (containing non-alpha-numeric characters).

  • 3b1. The system shows an error message indicating invalid input.

    Use case ends.

• 4a. The remark already exists on the patient’s profile.

  • 4a1. The system overwrites the existing remark with the new remark.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Search for a patient

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to search for a patient.
2. User enters the name or tag of a patient.

3. The system displays all patients with a name that matches with the user’s input.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given name does not match any patient.

  • 2a1. The system shows an empty list.

    Use case ends.

• 2b. The given tag does not match any patient.

  • 2b1. The system shows an empty list.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Display a list of patients and information

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to request a list of patients.
2. The system displays a list of patients with relevant information (name, contact details, appointments).

3. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The list is empty.

  Use case ends.

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Use case: Display a list of patients in a schedule by appointment dates

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to request a list of patients by appointment dates.
2. The system displays a list of patients with relevant information (name, contact details, appointments) sorted by appointment dates.

3. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The list is empty.

  Use case ends.

• 2b. There are no appointments scheduled.

  Use case ends.

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Use case: Sort list of patients by name or appointment

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to sort the list of patients.

2. User specifies the criteria for sorting (e.g., name

   appointment).

3. The system displays a list of patients sorted by the specified criteria.

4. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. User provides an invalid sorting criteria. *

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message indicating invalid input.

    Use case ends.

Use case: Log information to a patient’s profile

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to log information to a patient’s profile.
2. User enters the NRIC of the patient.
3. User provides the date, time and information to be logged.
4. The system logs the information to the patient’s profile.

5. The system shows a success message.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message that no person with given NRIC is found.

    Use case ends.

• 3a. User provides invalid information (e.g., invalid date/time format, empty log message).

  • 3a1. The system shows an error message indicating invalid input.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Delete a person

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to delete a person.
2. User enters the NRIC of the person to be deleted.

3. The system deletes the person.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The list is empty.

  Use case ends.

• 2b. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 3a1. AddressBook shows an error message.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: View a patient’s full information

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to view a patient’s full information.
2. User enters the NRIC of the patient.

3. The system opens a new window displaying the patient’s full information.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. The given NRIC is invalid.

  • 2a1. The system shows an error message that no person with the given NRIC is found.

    Use case ends.

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Use case: Viewing the help page

MSS

1. User enters appropriate command keyword to view the help page.

2. The system opens a new window displaying a list of available commands and their descriptions.

   Use case ends.

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Use case: Appointment pop-up alert on app start-up

MSS

1. User launches the app.

2. The system displays a pop-up alert for the day’s appointments.

   Use case ends.

Extensions

• 2a. There are no appointments scheduled for the day, no pop-up alert.

  Use case ends.

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Non-Functional Requirements

1. Should work on any mainstream OS as long as it has Java 17 or above installed. The app should hence not depend on any third-party software that is not available on all mainstream OS.
2. Should be able to hold up to 1000 persons without a noticeable sluggishness in performance for typical usage.
3. A user with above average typing speed for regular English text (i.e. not code, not system admin commands) should be able to accomplish most of the tasks faster using commands than using the mouse.
4. Data should be stored in a local file in a format that is easy to read and edit manually.
5. The app should be able to recover from common errors (e.g. invalid user input) gracefully, without crashing.
6. The app should avoid very high usage of system resources (CPU, memory) to ensure it can run efficiently even on systems with limited hardware capacity.
7. The app should provide a consistent user interface experience across different screen sizes and resolutions.
8. The application should be highly modular and well-documented to facilitate easy modification and maintenance from new developers.

Glossary

• Mainstream OS: Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Medical record: A collection of data about a patient’s health history
• Description: A textual summary associated with a appointment or medical record
• Timestamp: A record of the date and time an event occurred
• Tag: A medical condition or status assigned to a piece of information (e.g., diabetes, G6PD) to describe or categorize it
• Command Line Interface: A text-based interface for interacting with a computer program
• Graphical User Interface: A visual interface for interacting with a computer program
• NRIC: National Registration Identity Card, a unique identifier for Singapore residents

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Appendix: Planned Enhancements

Team size: 5

1. Ability to add appointment and remark to a patient’s profile using the add command.
2. Support whitespaces in tags. For example, t/heart disease should be a single valid tag.
3. Patient should be able to have multiple upcoming appointments and multiple remarks.
4. Ability to edit patient’s remark in the edit command.
5. View window should automatically update after editing patient’s details or logging a new entry.
6. Additional command shortcuts for log and schedule commands.
7. Make commands case-insensitive. For example, Add should be treated the same as add.
8. GUI for error messages should be more user-friendly as currently there is a need to scroll to see the full error message. For example, a pop-up window could be used to display the error message.
9. Triage should indicate level of severity of patient’s condition on the GUI for new users.
10. Log success message should indicate that logged entries can be viewed using theview command.

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Appendix: Instructions for manual testing

Given below are instructions to test the app manually.

Launch and shutdown

1. Initial launch

   1. Download the jar file and copy into an empty folder

   2. Double-click the jar file Expected: Shows the GUI with a set of sample contacts. The window size may not be optimum.

2. Saving window preferences

   1. Resize the window to an optimum size. Move the window to a different location. Close the window.

   2. Re-launch the app by double-clicking the jar file.
      Expected: The most recent window size and location is retained.

Deleting a person

1. Deleting a person while all persons are being shown

   1. Test case: delete S1234567A
      Expected: Existing patient with NRIC S1234567A is deleted from the list. Details of the deleted contact shown in the status message. Status bar updated.

   2. Test case: delete 0
      Expected: No person is deleted. Error details shown in the status message. Status bar remains the same.

   3. Other incorrect delete commands to try: delete, delete x, ... (where x is not an NRIC)
      Expected: Similar to previous.

Saving data

1. Dealing with missing/corrupted data files

   1. Simulating a Missing Data File
      1. Locate the data file used by the application data/addressbook.json
      2. Move or delete this file before launching the application
         Expected: The application should automatically create a new data file with default sample data loaded into the created file and app.
   2. Simulating a Corrupted Data File
      1. Open the data file data/addressbook.json in a text editor.
      2. Introduce invalid JSON syntax into the file.
      3. Save the corrupted file and launch the application.
         Expected: The application should automatically create a new empty data file with no contacts loaded into the app.