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S08 Model View Controller

This document discusses the Model-View-Controller design pattern. It describes the roles of the model, view and controller and how they interact. It also covers benefits of MVC and examples of implementing MVC, including for a traffic signal and the homework assignments.

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S08 Model View Controller

This document discusses the Model-View-Controller design pattern. It describes the roles of the model, view and controller and how they interact. It also covers benefits of MVC and examples of implementing MVC, including for a traffic signal and the homework assignments.

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Section 8:

Model-View-Controller

Slides adapted from Alex Mariakakis

with material from Krysta Yousoufian, Kellen


Donohue, and James Fogarty
HOMEWORK TIPS
 You must include the
@SuppressWarnings("nullness") tags so that
your code will build during grading
 Run ant validate on attu before submitting
 HW7 requires you to modify your code from
HW5 and HW6
 Make sure to address any issues you had that caused
you to fail HW5 or HW6 staff tests
MVC
 The classic design pattern
 Used for data-driven user applications
 Such apps juggle several tasks:
 Loading and storing the data – getting it in/out of storage on request
 Constructing the user interface – what the user sees
 Interpreting user actions – deciding whether to modify the UI or data
 These tasks are largely independent of each other
 Model, view, and controller each get one task
MODEL

talks to data source to


Which database table is
retrieve and store data the requested data stored
in?

What SQL query will get


me the data
I need?
VIEW

asks model for data Would this text look better


and presents it in a blue or red? In the bottom
corner
user-friendly format or front and center?

Should these items go in a


dropdown list or radio
buttons?
CONTROLLER

listens for the user to The user just clicked the


change data or state in “hide details” button. I
better tell the view.
the UI, notifying the
model or view
accordingly
The user just changed the
event details. I better let the
model know to update the
data.
BENEFITS OF MVC
 Organization of code
 Maintainable, easy to find what you need
 Ease of development
 Build and test components independently
 Flexibility
 Swap out views for different presentations of the same data (ex: calendar daily,
weekly, or monthly view)
 Swap out models to change data storage without affecting user
MVC FLOW IN THEORY

View

Model

Controller
MVC FLOW
 In theory…
 Pattern of behavior in response to inputs (controller) are independent of visual
geometry (view)
 Controller contacts view to interpret what input events should mean in the context
of the view
 In practice…
 View and controller are so intertwined that they almost always occur in matched
pairs (ex: command line interface)
 Many architectures combine the two
MVC FLOW IN PRACTICE

View
Model
Controller
HOMEWORKS
 HW8 – fine to keep view and controller together

 HW9 – separate the view and controller


PUSH VS. PULL

View

Model

Controller
PUSH VS. PULL ARCHITECTURE
 Push architecture
 As soon as the model changes, it notifies all of the
views

 Pull architecture
 When a view needs to be updated, it asks the model
for new data
PUSH VS. PULL ARCHITECTURE
PUSH VS. PULL ARCHITECTURE
 Advantages for push
 Guaranteed to have latest data in case something goes
wrong later on

 Advantages for pull


 Avoid unnecessary updates, not nearly as intensive on
the view
MVC EXAMPLE – TRAFFIC SIGNAL
TRAFFIC SIGNAL – MVC
Component Model View Controller
Detect cars waiting to enter intersection X
Traffic lights to direct car traffic X
Regulate valid traffic movements X
Manual override for particular lights X
Detect pedestrians waiting to cross X
Pedestrian signals to direct pedestrians X
External timer which triggers changes at
X
set interval
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
 Model
 Stores current state of traffic flow
 Knows current direction of traffic
 Capable of skipping a light cycle
 Stores whether there are cars and/or pedestrians waiting

 View
 Conveys information to cars and pedestrians in a specific
direction

 Controller
 Aware of model’s current direction
 Triggers methods to notify model that state should change
TRAFFIC SIGNAL CODE
 Model
 TrafficModel – keeps track of which lights should be on and off

 View
 CarLight – shows relevant state of TrafficModel to cars
 PedestrianLight – shows relevant state of TrafficModel to pedestrians

 Controller
 PedestrianButton – notifies TrafficModel that there is a pedestrian
waiting
 CarDetector – notifies TrafficModel that there is a car waiting
 LightSwitch – enables or disables the light
 Timer – regulates time in some way, possibly to skip cycles
HW8 OVERVIEW
 Apply your generic graph & Dijkstra’s to campus
map data
 Given a list of buildings and walking paths
 Produce routes from one building to another on
the walking paths
HW8 DATA FORMAT
 List of buildings (abbreviation, name, loc in pixels)
BAG Bagley Hall (East Entrance) 1914.5103,1708.8816
BGR By George 1671.5499,1258.4333
 List of paths (endpoint 1, endpoint 2, dist in feet)
1903.7201,1952.4322
1906.1864,1939.0633: 26.583482327919597
1897.9472,1960.0194: 20.597253035175832
1915.7143,1956.5: 26.68364745009741
2337.0143,806.8278
2346.3446,817.55768: 29.685363221542797
2321.6193,788.16714: 49.5110360968527
2316.4876,813.59229: 44.65826043418031
 (0,0) is in the upper left
MVC IN HW8
 Model stores graph, performs Dijkstra’s

 View shows results to users in text format

 Controller takes user commands and uses view to


show results

 View and Controller will change in HW9, but


Model will stay the same

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