WebFund 2015W: Assignment 5

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In this assignment you will create queryNotes.js, a program that will query the notes collection for matching notes. Please submit your answers as a single JavaScript source file called "<username>-queryNotes.js" (where username is your MyCarletonOne username). Please do not submit a zip file (i.e., no need for a node_modules directory).

In total, there are 10 points. The questions below will be automatically graded for everything but style.

This assignment is due March 2, 2015.

Syntax

queryNotes.js should be called as follows:

 node queryNotes.js [--output=<output file>] [--maxcount=<max number of documents to return>]  <criteria> [<projection>]

Arguments

• The query is mandatory. It should be a single string that follows the syntax of a find() criteria object except that the enclosing curly braces are optional.
• The output file should default to standard out.
• If no maxcount is specified then all matching documents should be returned.
• The projection should default to all fields. The enclosing braces on the object should also be optional.

Key logic

To process the query and projection strings you should:

• add enclosing curly braces if they are not present,
• convert the string to an object using JSON.parse(), and then
• create a cursor object using find(), giving it the supplied criteria and optionally the projection object, and
• retrieve all of the objects using .toArray() on the cursor object.
• report an error message to standard error saying "Error..." (start with the word Error and say whatever afterwards) if there are any problems with the operation.

Scoring

Points will be awarded as follows:

• 3 for doing the default find() properly using a query with braces
• 1 for handling missing curly braces
• 1 for --output working properly
• 1 for limiting the records correctly
• 1 for the projection (returning only certain fields)
• 1 for handling malformed queries
• 2 for style

Total: 10 points