Introduction

A command line application developed in C++ programming language.

The main purpose of this project is to act as a qualification test of

mastering of C++.

Requirement

Manage addresses by adding, searching and removing address entries.

Must be implemented features

• address entry data structure

  • name of the person

  • mobile number of the person

  • home address of the person

• start interactive command line application

  sh> ./ab

  ab> _

• use add command to add new address entry

  ab> add

  name: xiaoming

  mobile: 18888888888

  address: xiaoming jia

  address entry added

  ab> _

• use search command to get one or more address entries

  ab> search

  by (name|mobile|address): name

  name: xiaoming

  one can search by name, mobile or address, if more than one entires are matched, they should be all displayed.

• use remove command to remove one or more address entries

  ab> delete

  by (name|mobile|address): name

  name: xiao.*

  two address entries deleted

  ab> _

  one can remove by name, mobile or address, if more than one entries are matched, they should be all removed.

• get help

  ab> !help

  then help message should be displayed, and when encoutering invalid command, help message

  should also be displayed.

• quit from the application

  ab> !quit

  sh> _

Nonfunctional requirement

• your programme should be object-orinted

• your code should be well-formatted

  • NEVER use tab for indentation

• comments for public interface/class/method is a must

• please use linked list to store data in memory, when exit the application, you should persist the data to file system.

• when application start if you can reload the persistent file is a plus.

• please use simple key/value as persistent file format

• a big plus if you can implement an address book server within the application(telnet or raw socket protocol). when you start interactive command line application, first it starts a socket server, then takes interactive commands as the input for your socket client.

• gcc or g++ should be should be used to compile and generate runable application. If you working on windows, you can use Cygwin.

• please provide your steps to build this application

  • Make file is a plus.

• DO NOT store any IDE specific files into git repository

• if there is any fault in this readme, please also fix it or submit an issue

Note

• Fork me and use pull request to submit changes to develop branch. Anything unclear about the feature, fire issue.

• You should submit your source code