Final semester project

DND

Major Function pieces of the project

1. UI
2. Player (Client) * Show them the important information about their character and events
3. DM (Server) * Show important information about all characters at a glance, allow triggering actions easily
4. Backend (Business Logic)
5. Player (Client) * Probably want to have as simple clients as much as possible
6. DM (Server) * Should handle validating actions and applying effects
7. Shared components * Decide on logging library (recommend SLF4J)
8. Infrastructure

• Basic pojo library (recommend Immutables.io)

4. Networking

• Support handshake (connect and authenticate/register as player)
• Support broadcast (ability to send same data to multiple clients)
• Support direct message (ability to send data to specific client)
• Define information payload types (start small, make it extensible)

Tasks

1. Set up git repo and push current code there
2. Get basic pojo library (http://immutables.github.io/) set up and working

• Add maven artifact to deps
• Create simple example
• Verify that maven is including generated sources properly

3. Get SLF4J maven artifact imported
4. ~~Create enum of data types and associated immutables pojo’s to transmit data between client and server. ~~
5. Get serialization and deserialization working for sending pojo’s over the wire.

Other Tasks

After submitting the semester project clean up code with the following:

1. Sanitize inputs
2. Write unit tests

• Refactor code to make it more conducive to testing