tp

WheresMyMoney Developer Guide

Table of Contents

• Developer Guide
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Design & Implementation
  • Product Scope
    • Target User Profile
    • Value Proposition
  • User Stories
  • Non-Functional Requirements
  • Glossary
  • Instructions for Testing
    • Manual Testing
    • JUnit Testing

---

Acknowledgements

WheresMyMoney uses the following libraries

1. OpenCSV - Used for saving/ loading expenses
2. XChart - Used for visualizing expenses

WheresMyMoney uses the following tools for development:

1. JUnit - Used for testing.
2. Gradle - Used for build automation.

---

Design & Implementation

Design and Implementation has been broken down into various sections, each tagged for ease of reference:

• Architecture
• Ui and Parser
• Commands
• Storage
• Expense and Expense List
• Expense Filter
• Date and Time Handling
• Visualizer
• Recurring Expense and Recurring Expense List
• Category Package
• Exceptions and Logging

Architecture

A high-level overview of the system is shown in the Architecture Diagram below.

This architecture consist of:

1. Ui, Main, Parser, and Command classes: These classes stand between the user and the internal processing of the software.
2. Expense, ExpenseList, ExpenseFilter classes: Model expenses that commands can interact with.
3. Storage class: Stores information between sessions.
4. Logger and other utility classes: Provide extra functionalities for the software.

Ui and Parser

Overview

The Ui class handles I/O operations such as displaying messages and reading user input. The Parser parses user input and returns the relevant Command Object. An ArgumentMap object storing the mappings of the arguments to their values is passed in to the constructor of that Command object. These classes are important for allowing the User to interact with the application.

Methods

The Ui class has the following key methods:

Method	Description
displayMessage	Displays a message (String)
getUserInput	Reads User Input

The Parser class has the following key method:

Method	Description
parseInputToCommand	Parses a given user input and returns the related Command

The ArgumentMap class extends the HashMap<String, String> class with the following methods

Method	Description
isRecur	Checks if the arguments passed shows that the user wants to access the Recurring Expense List
getRequired	Gets a required argument and throws an exception if that argument is not provided.
getRequiredIndex	Gets a required index and throws an exception if that index is not provided.
getPrice	Gets a price and throws an exception if that price is invalid.
getRequiredPrice	Gets a required price and throws an exception if that price is not provided/ invalid.

Design Considerations

Low-level I/O operations (eg. stdio) are consolidated in the Ui class such that we can easily switch the I/O methods by modifying only the Ui class. This would make it easier to port the application to other platforms if needed.

Ui class is used as part of exception handling for displaying of error messages to the user for feedback.

The Parser also has some considerations such as

1. Restricted arguments which should not be used by other developers in their commands. These include
   1. /command -> used for the main command keyword
   2. /index -> used for the main text argument (the index of the expense to edit/ delete) right after the command keyword
2. Any duplicate arguments will throw an InvalidInputException
3. All / in the argument values should be escaped
   1. Examples
      1. command /argument \/value -> argument: /value
      2. command /argument value\/value -> argument:value/value
      3. command /argument value/value -> argument:value/value (this is accepted for now, but not recommended)
      4. command /argument value\\/value -> argument:value\/value
   2. / doesn’t need to be escaped for
      1. commands -> e.g. /command /argument value1 -> the command is /command
         1. It is discouraged to do so, but the option is left for potential expandability
      2. arguments -> e.g. command /argument/param value -> the argument name is argument/param
   3. Leading and Trailing spaces are ignored, but additional spaces within values (eg. main value) are counted

An ArgumentMap class is created as it makes it easier to do argument validation, compared to a regular HashMap<String, String> class.

Commands

Overview

The abstract Command class has been implemented to introduce an additional layer of abstraction between I/O and command execution, allowing for separation of handling command keywords and executing commands.

Implementation Details

The following diagram is a class diagram for Command and its children classes. This has been heavily simplified and only shows the key commands.

The following diagram is a sequence diagram for execution of Command.

Commands interact with Ui and Parser classes via Main, as illustrated in the following class diagram:

Storage

Overview

Storage is mostly handled by the different states themselves (ExpenseList, RecurringExpenseList, CategoryStorage). This is to keep the storage tightly coupled with the data and ensures that when the data format is updated, the storage format is updated accordingly, increasing cohesion. The current implementation abstracted out common Csv functions into the CsvUtils class, but this implementation also allows more flexible file formats between different classes, instead of relying solely on a certain format. This might help for future expandability.

However, we also do have a Storage class which handles how these file handling methods interact with one another. This is to consolidate the overall file loading and saving logic in the program. This is useful for certain cases, such as standardising default file paths It would be modified when there is a change of interaction between the various loading/ saving methods of the classes.

The LoadCommand and SaveCommand would reference the Storage class, so ideally they would not need to be changed much for feature changes.

Implementation Details

Here is an illustration of the related classes involved.

Design Considerations

OpenCSV is used for the storage format to allow for reliable handling of CSV files. The CSV file format was used to allow expenses to be easily exported/ imported to and from other programs (like Excel).

Storage is also meant to be an intentional act by the user. This means functionality such as autosave was not implemented due to the fact that it is not an intentional act.

Expense and Expense List

Overview

The Expense class represents an individual expense with a price, description, category and the date added.

The ExpenseList class manages a collection of Expense objects. It allows for the addition, editing and deletion of expenses.

Methods

The Expense class has no notable methods.

The ExpenseList class has the following key methods:

Method	Description
addExpense	Adds an expense to the list
deleteExpense	Removes an expense from the list
editExpense	Edits an expense in the list

There are 2 versions of addExpense: one with a date and one without a date.

• The former is used when the user does not specify the date: dateAdded is initialised as the current date.
• The latter is used when the user specifies the date: dateAdded is initialised as that specified date.

Design Considerations

The setters in Expense class checks for null and blank. The Expense constructors also do, as they use those setters.

The ExpenseList class contains exception handling when attempting to edit or delete an expense that is not in the list.

Implementation Details

UML class diagram to show the dependency between Command and ExpenseList classes:

The following diagram is a UML class diagram for Expense and ExpenseList:

Expense Filter

The ExpenseFilter class provides utility methods for selecting expenses based on their category and time range.

Its interaction with ExpenseList is demonstrated in the following UML Class Diagram:

ExpenseFilter is a prerequisite to implementing other features, e.g. Expense statistics and visualization.

Implementation Details

ExpenseFilter filters expenses by 3 criteria: Category, From (date), To (date). Each criterion is taken care of by a helper method. Since these filter fields are optional, if they are null, helper methods will evaluate to true.

Given a list of expenses, ExpenseFilter iterates through each expense, applying three criteria checks on them; and it would add the expense to a new ArrayList if all three checks are satisfied.

The ArrayList is then returned to the caller.

Date and Time Handling

Overview

The DateUtils class provides utility methods to handle date formatting, validation and conversion.

Methods

The DateUtils class has the following key methods:

Method	Description
isInDateFormat	checks if a given string is in the correct date format
getCurrentDate	gets the current date in LocalDate format
stringToDate	converts from given string to a LocalDate object
dateFormatToString	converts from given LocalDate object to a string

The date format that DateUtils uses, and thus the WheresMyMoney program uses, is dd-MM-yyyy. This ensures consistency in date formatting throughout the program.

Implementation Details

Most methods are essentially wrappers around the existing java.time API methods, but customised to fit this program’s needs.

• isInDateFormat is a wrapper for java.time’s parse method, but returns a boolean instead.
• getCurrentDate is a wrapper for java.time’s now method.
• stringToDate is a wrapper for java.time’s parse method.
• dateFormatToString is a wrapper for java.time’s format method.

Design Considerations

The DateUtils class’ attributes and methods are all class-level, because:

• Utility methods should be independent of object state
• No maintenance or storing of instance-specific date is needed
• Calling is easier, without requiring instantiation or to be passed through method parameters
• Utility functionality should not differ between instances.

Visualizer

The VisualizeCommand, similar to the list command, takes in category and from/to dates. It uses ExpenseFilter to generate an ArrayList<Expense> of matched expenses and passes it to Visualizer.

The Visualizer class, upon receiving expenses, performs the following steps:

• Determine beginDate and endDate (the earliest and latest dateAdded among all expenses).
• getTimeRange() - Calculate dateRange - the difference (in days) between beginDate and endDate plus one.
• If dateRange is within a month (no more than 32 days):
  • createDateList() - Generate a List<String> timeSeries of dates, spanning from beginDate to endDate.
  • groupPriceByDay() - Create a Hashmap<String, Float> dateToExpenseMap. The keys are elements of timeSeries, and values are the total expenses in the corresponding day.
• If dateRange is more than a month, perform similar operations where each element of timeSeries is a whole month.
• drawChart() - Pass data to the CategoryChart object, customize and display the chart.

Data is passed to the XChart library in the form of two series - a timeSeries and a valueSeries.

Recurring Expense and Recurring Expense List

Overview

The RecurringExpense class extends from the Expense class and it represents an indivual recurring expense with a price, description, category, last date added and a frequency.

The RecurringExpenseList class extends from the ExpenseList class and it manages a collection of RecurringExpense objects. It allows for addition, editing and deletion of expenses.

Methods

The RecurringExpense class has no notable methods.

The RecurringExpenseList class has the following key methods:

Method	Description
addRecurringExpense	Adds a recurring expense to the list
deleteRecurringExpense	Removes a recurring expense from the list
editRecurringExpense	Edits a recurring expense in the list
loadFromCsv	Adds the appropriate amount of Expense objects with the correct date to the ExpenseList

Design Considerations

Since the programme does not have an auto-save function upon closing the programme or auto-load when starting the programme, it is up to the user to save their work and to load it again.

Adding a recurring expense will only add a singular normal expense for that specified date (or current date if a date was not specified). All other valid expenses will by added after a save and a load command is used.

• The save command is needed to register the recurring expense into the system.
• The load command is used to trigger the mechanism to add all other valid expenses according to the date specified.

Editing a recurring expense will not edit the normal expenses that are asscociated with the recurring expense. You will need to edit the normal expenses yourself.

Deleting a recurring expense will not delete the normal expenses that are associated with the recurring expense. You will need to delete the normal expenses yourself.

Implementation Details

Below is the UML class diagram for RecurringExpense and RecurringExpenseList:

Below is the sequence diagram for when the user calls the load command.

Category Package

Overview

The CategoryFacade class serves as an interface that simplifies the interaction with various category-related classes (CategoryTracker and CategoryFilter), providing a unified API for the rest of the application (namely the Command classes).

The CategoryTracker class manages a collection of Category-CategoryData pairs. It allows for the addition, editing and deletion of category-related information.

The CategoryData class contains category-related information, namely the cumulative expenditure (the sum of all prices of expenses with that category) and the spending limits for that category.

The CategoryFilter class is responsible for filtering categories based on various criteria.

Methods

The CategoryFacade class has key methods for:

Method	Description
addCategory	The interface for AddCommand when the user adds a new Expense
deleteCategory	The interface for DeleteCommand when the user deletes an Expense
editCategory	The interface for EditCommand when the user edits an Expense
loadCategoryInfo	The interface for LoadCommand to load category information from a CSV file
displayFilteredCategories	The interface for LoadCommand to show filtered categories based on spending limits
saveCategoryInfo	The interface for SaveCommand to save current category information to a CSV file
setCategorySpendingLimit	The interface for SetCommand to set a spending limit for a specified category

The CategoryTracker class has the following key methods:

Method	Description
checkLimitOf	Prints a message to output if total expenditure is nearing or has exceeded the spending limit
addCategory	Adds a new category to the tracker. If already in the tracker, then the total expenditure for that category is increased instead
deleteCategory	Decreases total expenditure of a category. If that total drops to zero or below, the category is removed from the tracker
editCategory	Updates the old and new category’s total expenditure when an Expense’s category is changed
setSpendingLimitFor	Sets a spending limit for a particular category

The CategoryData class has these key methods:

Method	Description
increaseCurrExpenditureBy	Increments current total by a given price
decreaseCurrExpenditureBy	Decrements current total by a given price
isNearingLimit	Checks if current total is 80% of limit or more
hasExceededLimit	Checks if current total is more than limit

The CategoryFilter class has key methods for:

Method	Description
initMaxHeap	Initialises a custom max heap that sorts categories by their current total expenditure
getCategoriesFiltered	Sorts categories in the tracker, which are nearing or have exceeded the designated spending limit, into max-heaps
displayFilteredCategories	Displays the categories in the provided category-filtered max-heap, in a preset format
displayExceededCategories	Displays the categories that have exceeded its spending limits
displayNearingCategories	Displays the categories that are nearing, but not exceeded, its spending limits

After the user adds or edits an Expense, it alerts the user if the spending limit is approached or exceeded for that Expenses’s category.

The CategoryStorage class has key methods for:

Method	Description
trackCategoriesOf	Creates a category tracker based on an expense list
loadFromCsv	Loads spending limits from a CSV file, only for
saveToCsv	Saves all categories and their corresponding spending limits to a CSV file

After the user loads from file, all categories that have exceeded its designated spending limit will be displayed to the user, followed by all categories that have not exceeded its designated spending limit but are close to it.

Design Considerations

Each of the classes in this package handle a separate concern relating to category management (achieving Separation of Concerns Principle) and each focuses on a specific responsibility (achieving Single Responsibility Principle).

• CategoryFacade class
  • Acts as a singleton because only one instance of this exists throughout the program’s lifetime. The program passes this instance around through method parameters.
  • Acts as a facade because it provides the Command classes with a unified interface to the underlying category management classes, without the Command classes knowing of the complexity of the interactions between the category-related classes.
    • This abstracts and encapsulates the category management information with an interface.
    • This decouples classes outside the package from the classes inside.
  • Acts as a mediator because the category classes access information from the other classes through this class.
    • CategoryFilter accesses the tracker in CategoryTracker via the instance attribute in CategoryFacade.
    • CategoryStorage accesses the tracker in CategoryTracker via the instance attribute in CategoryFacade.
• CategoryTracker class
  • Contains exception handling when attempting to edit or delete a category that is not in the tracker.
  • Uses a hashmap data structure to store CategoryData objects, providing quick access and updating of total expenses.
• CategoryData class
  • Setter methods checks for null inputs. Constructor methods also do, as they use those setters.
• CategoryFilter class
  • Uses priority queue data structures as max heaps to sort the category expenditure information

Implementation Details

The following diagram is a UML class diagram for CategoryData, CategoryTracker, CategoryFilter and CategoryFacade:

Exceptions and Logging

Overview

The program implements Exception handling and Logging with the WheresMyMoneyException and Logging classes.

Implementation Details

WheresMyMoneyException has various children classes, such as StorageException and InvalidInputException. These children classes are meant to provide more information on the error to the developer (beyond the message) such that exception handling in the program could be better targeted in the future.

The Logging class is implemented as a Singleton for ease of use. Developers can log down certain actions in the program by simply calling the relevant class method log(Level, String).

---

Product scope

Target user profile

Our target user profile is frugal and tech-savvy university students.

Value proposition

The application will track how much a user is spending and what they are spending it on. The application can provide summaries and statistical insights to spending habits, optimised for people who prefer a CLI.

---

User Stories

Version	As a …	I want to …	So that I can …
v1.0	user	add expenses	track how much money I have spent so far
v1.0	user	delete expenses	clear wrong expenses to ensure expense tracking is accurate
v1.0	user	edit expenses	correct inaccurate expenses to ensure expense tracking is accurate
v1.0	user	list expenses	track my spending
v1.0	new user	see usage instructions	refer to them when I forget how to use the application
v2.0	user	save and load my expenses from a file	retain memory of past expenses from past runs of the program
v2.0	frugal user	set spending limits for each category	control my spending
v2.0	frugal user	be alerted when I exceed spending limits for each category and month	control my spending
v2.0	user	visualise my spending in the form of graphs	better conceptualise and understand spending trends and patterns
v2.0	user	detailed statistical information about my spending (mean, highest, etc.)	better quantify and understand spending trends and patterns
v2.0	user	add recurring expenses	automate expense tracking and make it more convenient

Non-Functional Requirements

1. Technical Requirements: Any mainstream OS, i.e. Windows, macOS or Linux, with Java 17 installed.
2. Project Scope Constraints: The application should only be used for tracking. It is not meant to be involved in any form of monetary transaction.
3. Project Scope Constraints: Data storage is only to be performed locally.
4. Quality Requirements: The application should be able to be used effectively by a novice with little experience with CLIs.

---

Glossary

• Expense - Payment made for various purposes. It has a price, category, description and the date added.

---

Instructions for Testing

Manual Testing

View the User Guide for the full list of commands and their related use case and expected outcomes.

Recurring Expenses

Recurring expenses can be tested by setting its date. Below is an example.

add /recur /price 1.00 /category A /description A /date 01-01-2024 /frequency daily
add /recur /price 10.00 /category B /description B /date 01-01-2024 /frequency weekly
add /recur /price 100.00 /category C /description C /date 31-01-2024 /frequency monthly
save
load

JUnit Testing

JUnit tests are written in the subdirectory test and serve to test key methods part of the application.