BlogPostDAO.java

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package course;

import com.mongodb.*;
import com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic.ACONST_NULL;

import java.util.*;

public class BlogPostDAO {
    DBCollection postsCollection;

    public BlogPostDAO(final DB blogDatabase) {
        postsCollection = blogDatabase.getCollection("posts");
    }

    // Return a single post corresponding to a permalink
    public DBObject findByPermalink(String permalink) {
        DBObject post = postsCollection.findOne(new BasicDBObject("permalink", permalink));

        return post;
    }

    // Return a list of posts in descending order. Limit determines
    // how many posts are returned.
    public List<DBObject> findByDateDescending(int limit) {

        List<DBObject> posts = null;
        // Return a list of DBObjects, each one a post from the posts collection

        DBCursor cursor = postsCollection.find().sort(new BasicDBObject("date", 1)).limit(limit);

        return cursor.toArray();
    }


    public String addPost(String title, String body, List tags, String username) {

        System.out.println("inserting blog entry " + title + " " + body);

        String permalink = title.replaceAll("\\s", "_"); // whitespace becomes _
        permalink = permalink.replaceAll("\\W", ""); // get rid of non alphanumeric
        permalink = permalink.toLowerCase();


        // XXX HW 3.2, Work Here
        // Remember that a valid post has the following keys:
        // author, body, permalink, tags, comments, date
        //
        // A few hints:
        // - Don't forget to create an empty list of comments
        // - for the value of the date key, today's datetime is fine.
        // - tags are already in list form that implements suitable interface.
        // - we created the permalink for you above.

        // Build the post object and insert it

        BasicDBObject post = new BasicDBObject("title", title)
                    .append("author", username)
                    .append("body", body)
                    .append("permalink", permalink)
                    .append("tags", tags)
                    .append("comments", new ArrayList<DBObject>())
                    .append("date", Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

        postsCollection.insert(post);

        return permalink;
    }

    // Append a comment to a blog post
    public void addPostComment(final String name, final String email, final String body,
                               final String permalink) {

        // XXX HW 3.3, Work Here
        // Hints:
        // - email is optional and may come in NULL. Check for that.
        // - best solution uses an update command to the database and a suitable
        //   operator to append the comment on to any existing list of comments

        BasicDBObject postComment = new BasicDBObject("author", name);

        postComment.append("body", body);

        if(email != null && !email.isEmpty()) {
           postComment.append("email", email);
        }

        DBObject post = this.findByPermalink(permalink);

        postsCollection.update(new BasicDBObject("_id", post.get("_id")), new BasicDBObject("$push", new BasicDBObject("comments", postComment)));
    }


}