Moviola Film Database Application

Statement of Goals: The user enters the name of the movie and the app will return the requested information (i.e. films, biographical information, etc.) The app retrieves the information the open-source Open Movie Database (OMDb), a free movie information database.

Functional Description: The ncurses UI will be relatively simple and self-explanatory for the user. When the application opens the user is presented with a text box (for entering the movie name) and several check boxes for the type of information requested. The user enters the name of the movie, selects from several checkboxes the data that they want returned (i.e., “Year”, “Actors”, “Director”, etc). Pressing the search button results in the information queried from the OMDb and displayed for the user.

Milestones:

Initial design.

Establish connectivity.

Responds to queries.

ncurses functionality.

Technical Breakdown:

User enters the movie title. convert the movie title into a OMDb search string URL. Creates a URL connection to the database and opens the connection. Creates an input stream to the data file Writes to the data file in JSON format for eventual parsing