SurvivingCodingBootcamp.com - A Blog

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Welcome to the staff of SurvivingCodingBootcamp, a blog for former students to write about how they survived their coding bootcamp experience. We have a simple blog started already, but we brought you on to make some changes.

We need you to help us add some new features and functionality to this website.

The Required Tasks:

1. Add a hashtag system to our posts. The hashtag should be connected to the posts in a way that a post can have different hashtags and a hashtag can be associated with different posts.

2. Create a Hashtag POJO and provide the correct JPA entity mapping for it and the POSTS

3. Create a single-hashtag-template.html file that matches the uses the same style.css file as the other templates and has a similar style to the other pages. This page should display the posts associated with it's specfic hashtag and provide links to those posts.

4. Create a all-hashtags-template.html file that that matches the uses the same style.css file as the other templates and has a similar style to the other pages. This page should display all hashtags in the application and provide links to those individual hashtags.

5. Add an HTML form to the single-post-template.html that allows you to add a hashtag to the post you are viewing.

6. Create a HashtagStorage service class to interact with your JPA repository for hashtags. It should be able to retrieve a hashtag by the value of its id field and by the value of its name/title field, retrieve all hashtags, and save new and existing hashtags.

7. Create a HashTagController to provide three path mappings, one for individual hashtags, one for all hashtags, and one for adding a hashtag to the system.

8. Add a link to the all hashtags endpoint to the header's nav list on all pages.

9. Add a field to the Post POJO for the post's author. This can be a String. Then change the single-post-template and the Post constructor to add an author name. Go to the populator and add an author name to the posts.

10. Add a form to the single-category-template to create a new post for that category. You should include inputs for passing information to the controller about each of the fields you need to fill the Post POJO's constructor parameters. You will also need to add a method to the PostController to allow for the creation of new posts.

Deadline and Grading Criteria

The deadline for this project is Monday, October 26th, at 9:30am. If the project is not complete or not pushed up to GitHub at that time it will be evaluated as an Incomplete project.

This is a Pass/Fail assignment, the assignment will be considered passing if it meets the following criteria:

• Uses Git and GitHub to push complete assignment to GitHub before due date.
• The code compiles. (No red squiggly underlines!)
• The provided integration tests still pass.
• All existing request endpoints are still reachable through the browser.
• All three of the required tasks are complete.

If your project doesn't meet these criteria at the deadline, it will be marked as Needs Improvement.

If your project is evaluated as Incomplete or Needs Improvement we will let you know and give you feed back on what needs to change to help move it to a passing project. You will receive a new deadline of Friday, October 30th, at 9:30 to re-submit your project by pushing changes to GitHub.
We will evaluate your project with the same criteria as the first submission and this evaluation will be the final grade for this assessment.

Optional Tasks:

Try these only when the above are finished and only commit them to the repo if they work and don't break the application. All of the above grading criteria still need to be met while you add these OPTIONAL features.

1. Create a new form for new topics on the home page.
2. Play with the CSS layout.
3. Add a form to the single-post-template that allows you to add comments to a post.
4. Add a date/time field to the Post POJO and post template so that you can see when a post is created.