Real Estate Console Application

This is a console application that offers the interface for buying and selling properties

Table of Contents

• Title
• User Journey
  • Buyers
  • Sellers
• Util Classes Usage
  • HouseUtil class
  • OrderUtil class
  • MessageUtil class
  • UserUtil class
• Model Classes Usage
  • House class
  • Order class
  • User class

User Journey

Buyer

• User is prompted to identify as either a buyer or seller

Hello, Welcome 

Are you a seller or Buyer [B-Buyer/S-Seller]

• User selects Buyer (B) and is presented with a list of already listed houses

Pick a House below, by it's House Number
1. Tarila's House (3000000)
2. Ephraim's House (10000000)
3. Mr. Success' House (5000000)
4. Mr Dubem's House (9000000)
5. Mr. John's House (2550000)

• Buyer selects any number, 2 for this example and is asked for confirmation of his decision

You selected Ephraim's House which costs: NGN 10000000. Do you want to continue? [Y/N]

• Buyer confirms order by pressing "Y"

You just Purchased Ephraim's House at NGN10000000

• If buyer rejects, it would say:

Thanks for your patronage

and then exit

Seller

• Seller is prompted to identify as either a buyer or seller

Hello, Welcome 

Are you a seller or Buyer [B-Buyer/S-Seller]

• Seller makes input as s for buyer and gets a few prompts that take in certain information that concern the house, after which the house is listed once again to confirm to the user that the house has been listed

Please follow the prompt below to add your house
Input house name: 
My House
Input house location: 
The Location
Input number of Bedrooms: 
1
Input house price: 
1200000
Input number of Kitchens: 
1
Input number of Bathrooms: 
2
Input number of Sitting Rooms: 
1
Input number of Garage: 
1
Is there swimming pool? [Y/N]: 
y
You just Listed My House at NGN1200000
Tarila's House
Ephraim's House
Mr. Success' House
Mr Dubem's House
Mr. John's House
My House

• Seller is asked if he wants to continue or not

Want to list another house? [Y/N]

• If Continue it goes up to receive inputs again
• If Not continue, It asks if another transactions should be performed.

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Want to perform another transaction? [Y/N]

• If the transaction should be performed it goes on and asks if the user is a buyer or seller basically repeating the whole process oer again

• If it shouldn't be performed, it exits and thanks the user

Util Classes Usages

The util classes are in charge of everything that has to do with performing any transaction. They contain mostly static methods. this was used as an instance is not necessarily needed, to be created for each of the utility classes.

HouseUtil.java

This includes worker static methods that perform listing Houses and getting the currently selected house

List of Houses

To get the list of manually stored Houses, call

HouseUtil.getHouseList();

This is mostly used to initialize the list of houses and passed to the holding

List houses for buying transaction.

Single House

The user is to select by number the house he wishes to buy

Scanner selectHouse = new Scanner(System.in);
int selection = selectHouse.nextInt();
House selectedHouse = HouseUtil.getSingleHouse(houseList, selection-1);

The selection variable is meant to hold the selected houses by number has a type of int

OrderUtil.java

This contains static classed that performs order specific duties

OrderUtil.performHouseBuyingTransactions(houseList);

OrderUtil.performHouseListing(houseList);

MessageUtil.java

MessageUtil.messenger(message);

MessageUtil.writeInstruction(instruction);

MessageUtil.giveUserFeedback(houseName, housePrice, transactionType);

UserUtil.java

Not implemented yet

Model Classes Usages

House.java

Contains necessary house related members, including necessary getters and setters

Order.java

Contains necessary Order related members, including necessary getters and setters

User.java

Contains necessary User related members, including necessary getters and setters