Cafe Mangagement

Table of Contents

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• Overview
• Technologies Used
• Setup
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Loading Initial Data

Overview

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Cafe management is a Java-based application designed to manage a café's menu, customer interactions, and shopping cart functionalities. Built using Spring Boot and JPA, this project provides a structured way to handle café-related operations, allowing users to view menus, manage their shopping carts, and place orders. This particular one is supernatural themed.

Features

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Current features:

• Cafe Menu Management: Load and view cafe menus with various sections and items.
• Customer Management: Register, update, and manage customer information.
• Shopping Cart: Add, update, and remove items from the cart, with total price calculations.
• Role-Based Access: Different roles including ADMIN, EMPLOYEE, and CUSTOMER to handle permissions.
• Currently in MVP stage

Future features:

• Reviews
• Blog
• Sign up for rewards
• Promo codes
• Earn points
• Join view/Events

Technologies Used

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• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• JPA (Hibernate)
• Lombok
• Jackson for JSON processing
• MySQL Database

Setup

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Project Structure

    cafe_mvp/
    │
    ├── src/
    │   ├── main/
    │   │   ├── java/
    │   │   │   └── org/
    │   │   │       └── perscholas/
    │   │   │           └── cafe_mvp/
    │   │   │               ├── model/
    │   │   │               ├── repository/
    │   │   │               ├── service/
    │   │   │               └── CafeMvpApplication.java
    │   │   └── resources/
    │   │       ├── application.properties
    │   │       └── menu.json
    │   └── test/
    │       └── java/
    ├── pom.xml
    └── README.md

Getting Started

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Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher
• Maven

Installation

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1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/cafe_mvp.git
   cd cafe_mvp

2. Make sure you name the database cafemvpdb or alternatively, rename it in application,properties

     #Look for this line
       spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cafemvpdb

3. You can configure the application by modifying the application.properties file located in src/main/resources. Here’s an example configuration for a MySQL database:

     spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cafedb
     spring.datasource.username=root
     spring.datasource.password=yourpassword
     spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
     spring.jpa.show-sql=true

4. Build the project:

    mvn clean install

5. Run the application:

     mvn spring-boot:run

6. Access the application at:

    http://localhost:8080

Loading Initial Data

The application can load an initial menu from a JSON file (menu.json). Ensure that this file is placed in the src/main/resources directory.