- Practice creating a basic Java Spark application
- Practice creating routes in a Java Spark application
- Practice using Velocity Templates in a Java Spark application
The student randomiser that Codeclan uses to create its paired programming pairs and project groups has been... DESTROYED! Who would do such a thing? To be honest, we don't have time to find the culprit, what we need RIGHT NOW is a replacement, or come projects at the end of the week our goose is cooked! It's up to you to save the course!
You are required to create a Java Spark application to generate random names from a list, or generate random pairs of names from a list. The list of names should be pre-populated.
Create a class which holds a pre-populated ArrayList of Strings, for the names to be randomised. This class should have a method for each of the following:
- to be able to return a random models.Student from the ArrayList
- to be able to get a pair of random names from the ArrayList and return those names using an ArrayList
Create a Spark application which uses the class you have create above. It should have the following routes:
/one - this should get a single random models.Student from the list and display that models.Student in the browser
/two - this should get a random pair of names from the list and display that pair in the browser.
You should display the results using Velocity Templates. You will need a different Velocity Template for each route.
- Add further routes for:
- Groups of three
- Groups of four
- Add checking to make sure that the list contains enough entries for the number of names being asked for. If it does not, then simply return all the names in the list.
- Any other extensions you can think of