CISC 7610X Homework 2 Due 3/28/16 Prof. Michael Mandel Email

Cisc 7610x Homework 2 Due 32816prof Michael Mandel Emailprote

CISC 7610X, Homework 2 – Due 3/28/16 Prof Michael Mandel – [email protected] 1 Introduction For this assignment, we will be implementing the database from homework 1 in Java as a collection of objects and persisting them to the Neo4j graph database. You will turn in a directory of source code, an executable jar file, and a brief report describing your work. The entity-relationship diagram for the database is: Tape RecordingDate Contains Shot Story Program Contains Contains GPS Lat GPS Lon CameraPerson Description Name Description N 1 N N N N StartTime EndTime Title Reporter StartTime EndTime StartTime EndTime FirstAired Description Implementing the startTime and endTime properties on the join tables is option in this assignment, which is why they are drawn differently.

2 Setup Neo4j 2.1. Download Neo4j community edition for your platform from com/download/ and unzip it. 2.2. Follow the guide on using the Neo4j browser: guide-neo4j-browser/. When prompted, set the password for user “neo4j” to “cisc7610” so that eventually I can use your code on my setup without recompiling it.

It will guide you through the process of starting the server running locally on your computer and connecting to it through your laptop. 2.3. Make sure that you run the intro, concepts, and movie graph examples using the :play intro, :play concepts, and :play movie graph commands in the browser window. This is just to get familiar with Neo4j and the interface. 1 [email protected] Soetmo Sticky Note nccnkblhsbdksdf Soetmo Pencil 2.4.

You might also want to read this article to get started developer/graph-db-vs-rdbms/ 2.5. After running the movie graph example, open the sidebar by clicking on the three circles in the top left of the screen. Select the entire database by clicking on the “*” button under “Node labels”. Take a screenshot of the graph to be included in your report. 3 Setup Neo4j-OGM Neo4j includes an object-graph mapping (OGM) module that will convert between java objects and Neo4j graph elements (nodes and edges).

It includes three main components of interest to us: • A set of annotations to be applied to your classes and to their fields to allow them to be persisted to the database • A session manager to connect to the database using a URL that you supply and credentials for the database • Various methods to query the database via the session It is available at I used version 1.1.6, as opposed to the 2.0.0 release candidate. I used it through Apache Maven, a build tool for java. If you are not familiar with Maven, this tutorial is useful: maven-in-five-minutes.html. You can add the Neo4j OGM to your project just by adding several lines to your Maven configuration file, pom.xml, described in the Neo4j OGM README: 4 Implement the ER diagram in Java 4.1.

Implement one class for each entity in the ER diagram: Tape, Shot, Story, and Program. These classes should have a constructor that takes no arguments, but can also have a constructor that takes all of the arguments necessary to initialize them fully. 4.2. Implement relationships with other entities as a field that is a java.util.Set of the other entity class. For many-to-many relationships, it is sufficient to have one of these sets in the entity on either side of the relationship.

4.3. Implement methods to connect up related entities so that the set on both sides of each relationship is correctly populated. 4.4. Implement a Main class that instantiates the other classes and connects them together using the same data that we used in Homework 1. 2 5 Annotate your Java classes 5.1.

Follow the tutorial on the Neo4j OGM java/stable/#tutorial, but instead of using the example code, apply the same concepts to your own java code. 5.2. Note that annotations live in the package org.neo4j.ogm.annotation and the session lives in the package org.neo4j.ogm.session. 5.3. As described in the tutorial, create a superclass for all of your entity classes to keep track of IDs and hashing.

6 Write your Main class 6.1. Continue following the tutorial and add the code concerned with the session and querying the database to your Main class. 6.2. Make sure that the Neo4j server you started running earlier is still running and have your Main class connect to it using the URL cisc7610@localhost:7474/, assuming that you are using version 1.1.6 of the Neo4j OGM. 6.3.

Before it does anything else, have your Main class clear the database by calling session.purgeDatabase() where session is an instance of Session returned by Neo4jSessionFactory.getInstance().getNeo4jSession(). 6.4. Have your Main class save the entities to the database using the session.save() function. Note that saving an object will save all of the objects linked to it, so you probably don’t have to call save() on too many different objects. 7 Have the Main class query the database 7.1.

Write code in the Main class or in the entity classes to print out a tree representation of the TV station data, with the root at a Program. 7.2. Printing a Program should print the program information followed by printing all of its constituent Stories. 7.3. Printing a Story should print its information followed by printing all of its constituent Shots. 7.4. Printing a Shot should print its information followed by the Tape id. 8 Compile and run your project 8.1. Create an executable jar file that will clear and re-populate the database when run. If using Maven, you can make the jar executable using this answer on StackOverflow: Go back to the browser interface for Neo4j and again click on the “*” in the sidebar under “Node labels”. It should show the graph for your project. Take a screenshot of this graph to include in your writeup. 9 Write a brief document describing your project 9.1. Include the screenshot of the movie database graph and your final graph 9.2. Include instructions for how to run your code 9.3. Describe any problems that you ran into in the course of this project 10 Submit this homework Submit the following via the dropbox on Blackboard • Your writeup, including the two screenshots • The executable jar file • A zip file containing your source code

Paper For Above instruction

This assignment involves implementing a database model in Java based on the provided ER diagram and persisting its data into the Neo4j graph database. The project requires creating Java classes representing each entity—Tape, Shot, Story, and Program—and establishing their relationships according to the diagram. Utilizing the Neo4j Object-Graph Mapping (OGM) library, these classes must be annotated appropriately for persistence, with a common superclass for ID and hash management. The process involves setting up Neo4j, running example graphs, and capturing screenshots to document the setup and results. The implementation also includes developing a main Java class to instantiate, connect, and save these entities into the database, and querying the data for hierarchical display from Program down to Tape. The final deliverables include source code, an executable jar that resets and populates the database, and a report with relevant screenshots and instructions for running the project. Common challenges will likely include configuring Neo4j, mapping relationships correctly, and ensuring the data hierarchy is accurately printed. This project emphasizes understanding graph databases, object-relational mapping for graph data, and Java programming to manage and query complex data structures effectively.

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