PDF Generator System
Hackathon project by Safeer Khan and Madhul Pandey
Prerequesites
Need Google Chrome browser installed on system. On Windows, you need to add it to PATH as Environment Variable.
For calling Database operations, MySQL data base with the same schema will be requried. You will need to specify your user and password in application.properties file in res folder.
We have also attached the export of our database in sql folder. export.sql.
Project overview
Package Structure
There is one main package with two sub-pakages.
One sub-package is db, which consists of all necessary files to implement the datamodel and handle database interactions as per Java Persistance Library(JPA).
The second sub-package is Language, which is used to hard code Strings in different languages. We make use of java inheritance to we can switch between languages quickly.
Program overview.
We make use of Spring boot to expose a REST endpoint where we make requests. This code is present in Controller.java.
To run the program, you have to call main function from HackathonApplication.java
The main logic code is present and documented in Pdf.java. Kindly change the hard-coded output directories as per your system. Check TODO comments for the same.