cuylerquint / ParkingComplexSystem

Parking Complex System

This code base is a solution to the task defined in ParkingChallenge.txt. Before continuing please review the ParkingChallenge.txt to understand the problem statement.

Design/Assumptions

• Time definitions for customer tickets are stamped on call to park and unpark granted their parameters are valid

• init() is called once per park_unpark module process

• Entrance Location/ Best Spot:
  The distance between the entrance is derived as a combination of the indexes in a location tuple.
  

  E.G. location(1,1,1).distance-to-entrance -> 3
  location(2,1,1).distance-to-entrance -> 4
  location(3,1,1).distance-to-entrance -> 5
  ...

  With this design the cost to go in any direction is solely 1
  E.g.
  First compact non-handicapped level 1 resides at location(1,3,1).dis -> 5
  First compact non-handicapped level 2 resides at location(2,1,1).dis -> 4

• Assumption: travel between spots and entrance/exit is not accounted for in this design

• Complex generation from text file: This design is dependent on a config text file to denote the size/type of parking rows and spaces as seen in ParkingChallenge.txt. This backend is will parse a text in the following format a make a ParkingComplex with the values denoted.
  config-text-path proper format:
  

  • first-line:(Str):'ParkingComplex Name',(Int): Number of levels wanted
  • for level-line in range(0,first-line[1]):
    • next-line = (Int):level-line-rows,(Int):level-line-spaces
      • for parking-space in range(0,row-space-line[0] * rows-space-line[1])
        • next_line = (Str): Type of parking space at level[i][j] #this is limitedto["handicap","compact","large"]

  e.g. : redwood.txt:
  Redwood,3 # complex name = redwood, levels = 3
  6,10 # rows = 6, spaces = 10 ,level_line 1 of 3
  handicap # parking space line 1 of 60
  handicap # parking space line 2 of 60
  ...
  compact # parking space line 60 of 60
  8,10 # rows = 8, spaces = 10, level-line 2 of 3
  compact # parking space line 1 of 80
  

Running

Currently this is only configured to run from the Tests.py which utilizes the unittest module

to run: python Tests.py

Improvements

• Use a actual Database to store information about customers and complex

Author

• Cuyler Quint - cuylerquint