Midterm will be held on Friday 8/7 from 8pm to 11pm. It is an open-book take-home exam. The exam will be available on CSNS at 8pm. Due time will be strictly enforced. No late submission will be accepted, period.

The exam must be completed individually. Collaboration of any kind will be considered cheating, and you will receive an automatic F for the course.

In the exam you will be asked to implement some functions for the CSJobs application, but instead of working on your own code, you will work on a copy of the CSJobs project checked out from svn://sun.calstatela.edu/csjobs/trunk. Please spend some time before the exam to get familiar with the code. The code is given "as is", meaning that there's no guarantee that the code is correct or complete. If there's any problem in the code, you need to deal with it yourself. I'll answer any questions about the code before the exam, but once the exam starts, you'll be on your own. During the exam I'll be available online to answer any questions about the problem description. You may email me or post your questions in the class forum. Note that during exam you may only post questions about the problem description; posting any question about programming or running the project during the exam is considered cheating.

At the end of the exam you must submit the project in a zip file csjobs.zip. The zip file should include two folders src/ and .svn/, and the pom.xml file. The reason we need the .svn folder is because we need to use version control to locate the files that you added or changed. Do not include unnecessary folders like target/ and test-output/ and so on. Because .svn is a hidden folder, the easiest way to create the zip file is to use some software like 7zip to create a zip file of the whole project folder, then delete from the zip file any unnecessary files and folders. The zip file should be about 60KB or so. If yours is too large or too small, you are doing something wrong. You can watch a short video on how to create the zip file here.

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Will we need to create our own branch to work on from the repository or we don't need to be commit to your repository(only upload to csns)?

Thanks

Can we use csjobs database which we generaed during homework-4 or we have to re-setup it for midterm?

I already did that. And i have used model classes which you provided after homewor-3. So csjobs application which you provided is working properly with my existing database. So do i have to update my database.?.

you can use csjobs database, just drop all tables from it and use new create drop from csjods-exam

nextmatrixman wrote:

Can we format the given code (without changing the contents) to our preference?

Sure, though I'd suggest that you only do it with the files your added or changed. The reason is that if you reformat everything, all files will be shown in version control as modified, so it'll be difficult for us to locate your changes. If your code works perfectly, that's not a problem, but it could be a problem when we give partial credit.

msargent wrote:

Would implementing some functions on our own be a good way to practice for this midterm? If we do implement something, can we reuse that code (if it happens to be relevant) during the midterm?

Sure and sure.

Hello,

Just want to confirm:

The topics discussed in video 'Bits and Pieces of Web Programming (I)' will be included in midterm?

Should we change the tomcat-jdbc version to match the tomcat version that we have on our own machine? 

Hello Professor,

When I run csjobs-exam project, its just running , not giving me any error or a default page. Its just going on. Did i Miss anything?

I checked out the project and populated the db as well.

Why are there two ApplicationController classes?

What is the purpose of the error.jsp? It appears that it is called by the apply control method if the applicant tries to apply for a job that has already been applied to but I cannot understand how this would happen and I cannot get to the error.jsp. I tried changing the parameter in the url to that of a job that was already applied to and was not directed to the error.jsp. Rather, I am able to change the information in the application.

How the errCode inside error.jsp is set in case of error? 

On the midterm, are you going to grade us on the folder structure hierarchy, for example do we need to separate the different jsp files in their corresponding folders, do we need to create folders for each of the models that we're going to use depending on what you're going to ask us to implement or can we just place the jsp files in the root folder.

I want to get some attributes from an uploaded file from an upload.jsp and assign them to a new csjobs.model.File() object. Where should the File() object be created? Should it be created and passed into the jsp by the GET method or created in the POST method and do the work there?

cysun wrote:

bseemscs wrote:

I want to get some attributes from an uploaded file from an upload.jsp and assign them to a new csjobs.model.File() object. Where should the File() object be created? Should it be created and passed into the jsp by the GET method or created in the POST method and do the work there?

You can't "bind" a File object to a form to get the attributes of an uploaded file because those attributes (e.g. content type, length, and so on) are not sent as request parameters. Like I said here and here, you need to handle the uploaded file as a separate @RequestParam, then get the attributes from MultipartFile.

My thinking is to create a File object then use multipartFile methods inside the File object's setter methods. I am thinking I can do this in the POST controller. I was also thinking I could give the uploaded file a unique multipartFile name in the jsp using Expression Language to aid retrieval. If that is possible, I will have to pass some object into the jsp to use the Expression Language. I am thinking of passing in application for this. Am I all wet here or am I tracking on something?

I created a FileDao and FileDaoImpl and tried to @Autowired the FileDao in a FileController then I got a HTTP 500 exception telling me that could not autowire the private field csjobs.model.dao.FileDao. I am quite certain I did everything the same as when I created and autowired a UserDao. Attached the Exception report. Any Idea what is happening here? Is there some conflict with java.io.File?

bseemscs wrote:

I created a FileDao and FileDaoImpl and tried to @Autowired the FileDao in a FileController then I got a HTTP 500 exception telling me that could not autowire the private field csjobs.model.dao.FileDao. I am quite certain I did everything the same as when I created and autowired a UserDao. Attached the Exception report. Any Idea what is happening here? Is there some conflict with java.io.File?

I forgot the @Repository tag in FileDaoImpl. Crisis averted.

poonam31 wrote:

Hello,

 

On create job form, 

dates are entered in m/d/yyyy - can i assume this or should i validate if it is entered in correct form?

It's M/d/yyyy, not m/d/yyyy, which is different. And yes, you can assume this. Input validation is not required.

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