TheMemencholyOfRiles

A utility to fetch, parse, and store data from a website.

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Backstory

Riles once quizzed me on pop figures. I knew nothing.

So, Riles began posting news headlines into all chat during our Dota 2 games.

Then, he started replacing celebrity's names with mine.

That meant war, and here we are. I saw a possibility to automate the process such that Riles has been unable to keep up with the memes.

Quickstart:

Edit the config.properties file to add your own url and data files. Some data files are found in the target/classes/data directory, the ones read at startup are in src/main/java/resources/data.

How to deploy:

1. Create a new project
2. Git clone this into that new project directory
3. Do the stuff for the pom.xml (mvn install????) to get the dependencies.
4. //\e//\e

Design patterns:

1. Singleton -- The PropertyHandler utilizes the Singleton pattern so that one instance of the configuration file will exist.
2. Planned Producer-Consumer -- Multithreaded queue for the scraping and parsing