Kotlin Data Parser

This project can be managed from the command line using Gradle. You don't need to install Gradle yourself, as a script is included that will download it automatically if necessary. You can also use the IntelliJ IDE - by using the Import Project option and specifying Gradle. The instructions below assume the use of the command line.

Building The Application

You can build the application on the command line with

./gradlew build

Omit the ./ on Windows. Note that this will be fairly slow the first time it runs, as it will need to download Gradle itself and the project's dependencies. Subsequent builds should be a lot faster.

Running The Application

With Gradle

You can run the application with command line arguments using the --args option. For example, to specify a data filename as the sole command line argument, you do this:

./gradlew run --args data/bradford.txt

To specify a data filename and a year as command line arguments, you need to enclose both in quotes, like this:

./gradlew run --args "data/bradford.txt 2018"

Specifiying a year displays a graph of the wettest months for that particular year and location.

Outside of Gradle

You can generate a self-contained executable JAR file for the application with

./gradlew jar

This will appear in the build/libs subdirectory, as the file parser.jar. It can be run with commands like this:

java -jar parser.jar
java -jar parser.jar ../../data/bradford.txt

Packaging

Code can be compressed as a .zip archive with:

./gradlew compress

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This project is from 2019, the updates in 2022 was from me migrating from GitLab to GitHub