COEN 79L - Lab 7 § Database

COEN 79L - Object-Oriented Programming and Advanced Data Structures
Lab 7
§ Database
company_name … *head_ptr
*tail_ptr
A database class to store the name of companies as well as their products information.
The database class is implemented as a dynamic array which holds company objects.
Therefore, the private variables of the database class are:
1. company* company_array; // A pointer to a dynamic array of company objects
2. size_type aloc_slots; // Number of slots in the stindex_array array
3. size_type used_slots; // Number of used slots in the stindex_array array

Each company object has three member variables:
1. std::string company_name; // Name of company
2. node* head_ptr; // Head of the linked list including company's products
3. node* tail_ptr; // Tail of the linked list including company's products
The head_ptr and tail_ptr are pointers to the start and end of a linked list. This linked
list is used to store the products of each company.
To this end, we define the node class with the following member variables:
1. std::string name; // Name of the product
2. float price; // Price of the products
3. node * link; // Link to the next product
Initially, the size of company_array is 2 (i.e., a dynamic array with two slots). When a
company is added, and the current array is full, an extra slot is allocated using the reserve
*company_array
An array of company elements on heap
name | price | link
name | price | link
name | price | link
COEN 79L - Object-Oriented Programming and Advanced Data Structures
Lab 7
function. A new pointer to an array is then created and then the contents from the older
array are copied into the new array.
The class enables us to add companies and their products to the database. However, note
that no company or product duplicate is allowed. You should implement functions to check
these conditions.
Every product insertion results in adding a new node to the linked list of that company.
Please note that a product cannot be added if the company does not exist in the database.
When a company is deleted, first the linked list is erased (as it is on heap memory) and then
the dynamic array of the database class is updated to reflect the company removal. This may
require shifting the elements of this array.
Note that you should implement destructors for the company class and database class. The
destructor of the company class clears the linked list of that company. The destructor of the
database class deletes the dynamic array of companies.
Please note that proper operation of the database class requires the implementation of
constructor, copy constructor, assignment operator, and destructor, for the database class
and company class. For example, when you assign a database a to a database b, you
should ensure that in addition to the dynamic arrays of companies, the linked lists are
copied as well. Otherwise, the entries of the dynamic array of b point to the linked lists of a,
which is not what we want.
Given files:
§ database.h and database.cpp - Incomplete implementation of the database
class.
§ company.h company.cpp - Incomplete implementation of the company class.
§ node.h and node.cpp – Node class for the products stored in linked list.
§ Test files. (feel free to extend the test files to verify all the operations.)