Project 1b

Due Date: Mon 7 Feb

Objectives

  • An understanding of the HTTP protocol and ReSTful web services
  • Further understanding of hosted, NoSQL databases
  • ReSTful client scripting

Description

Implement a small client-side script with the following functionality:
  • Connect to your database from project 1a using the generated API key.
  • Compute the two-dimensional center of gravity of your points, described by the averages of the x and y values taken as a point.
  • Determine the most frequently occurring color.
  • Shift all points uniformly by a given x-y offset.
Deal gracefully with error situations such as
  • no points
  • several colors with the same frequency
While it is possible to implement this functionality as a shell script, it is much easier to use a scripting language such as Groovy, Python, or Ruby. Your best bet is to use any available libraries for
  • HTTP/ReST client functionality
  • CouchDB
  • JSON
and most modern scripting languages have very convenient ways to pull these libraries into your script.

You may want to take a look at this article or the very simple Groovy example in my repository.

Submission

Please submit your client-side script and any unmanaged dependencies in a folder named project1b in your shared group repository.
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