Movie Rental System

A movie rental system is a software application that helps customers rent and manage movies from a movie rental store or an online streaming platform. Here's an example of how the classes and functions of a movie rental system could be designed using object-oriented programming principles:

Classes

Movie

This class represents a movie in the rental system. It contains attributes such as title, genre, director, cast, release date, and a unique ID. The following methods are implemented:

• Movie(title, genre, director, cast, releaseDate, id): - constructor method
• getId(): int: returns the ID of the movie
• getTitle(): String: returns the title of the movie
• getGenre(): String: returns the genre of the movie
• getDirector(): String: returns the name of the movie's director
• getCast(): String: returns the names of the movie's cast members
• getReleaseDate(): Date: returns the release date of the movie
• isAvailable(): boolean: returns true if the movie is available for rent, false otherwise
• setAvailable(status: boolean): void: sets the availability status of the movie to the provided value

Customer

This class represents a customer in the rental system. It contains attributes such as name, email, phone number, address, and a unique ID. The following methods are implemented:

• Customer(name, email, phone, address, id): constructor method
• getId(): int: returns the ID of the customer
• getName(): String: returns the name of the customer
• getEmail(): String: returns the email address of the customer
• getPhone(): String: returns the phone number of the customer
• getAddress(): String: returns the address of the customer
• getRentals(): List: returns a list of all rentals made by the customer

Rental

This class represents a rental in the system. It contains attributes such as the rented movie, the customer who rented it, rental date, and return date. The following methods are implemented:

• Rental(movie, customer, id): constructor method
• getId(): int: returns the ID of the rental
• getMovie(): Movie: returns the rented movie
• getCustomer(): Customer: returns the customer who rented the movie
• getRentalDate(): Date: returns the rental date of the movie
• getReturnDate(): Date: returns the return date of the movie
• setReturnDate(date: Date): void: sets the return date of the movie to the provided value
• calculateLateFee(): double: calculates the late fee for the rental

RentalStore

This class represents the rental store in the system. It contains a list of movies available for rent and a list of customers registered with the store. The following methods are implemented:

• register(customer: Customer): void: registers a new customer with the store
• addMovie(movie: Movie): void: adds a new movie to the list of available movies
• removeMovie(movie: Movie): void: removes a movie from the list of available movies
• getAvailableMovies(): List: returns a list of all available movies for rent
• rentMovie(movie: Movie, customer: Customer): void: allows a customer to rent a movie
• returnMovie(rental: Rental): void: allows a customer to return a rented movie
• getCustomerById(id: int): Customer: returns the customer with the provided ID
• getMovieById(id: int): Movie: returns the movie with the provided ID

UML Dialgram

What should you do?

• Initial implementation of the film rental project is located in a specific folder.
• Update the film rental system to a film, book, and game rental system while considering inheritance concepts.
• Proper use of Git and project commenting.
• Fork the project and place it on GitHub.

Class Hierarchy

The system includes the following class hierarchy:

• Item: Represents an item in the rental store, which can be either a movie or a game. Contains attributes such as title, genre, and release date. It also includes a unique ID and a rental fee attribute, which can be overridden by the subclasses.
• Movie: Represents a movie in the rental store. Inherits from the Item class and adds attributes such as director and cast. Contains methods such as rentMovie and returnMovie.
• Game: Represents a game in the rental store. Inherits from the Item class and adds attributes such as platform and publisher. Contains methods such as rentGame and returnGame.
• Book : Represents a book in the rental store. Inherits from the Item class and adds attributes such a author and publisher . Contains methods such as rentBook and returnBook

Inheritance

The concept of inheritance is used in the system to define a common set of attributes and behaviors for items in the rental store. The Item class serves as the base class for Movie,Game and Book classes. It defines common attributes such as title, genre, and release date, as well as a unique ID and a rental fee attribute, which can be overridden by the subclasses.

The subclasses, Movie,Game and Book , inherit these attributes and methods from the Item class and add their own unique attributes and behaviors such as director, cast, platform, and publisher, and rent and return methods.

Using inheritance in this way helps to reduce code duplication and promotes modularity and extensibility in the system.