CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/oss cmh

Introduction

What the invitation controller does and the process advertising, creating invites and accepting invites.

Project Description

Classes: invitation_controller.rb (104 lines) invitation.rb (5 lines)

What it does: Handles invitations to join teams.

What needs to be done: The code is deeply nested and quite confusing. There should be a single method responsible for finding whether a user is already on a team, adding someone onto a waitlist, dropping someone off of a waitlist, changing/updating the topic that the user is assigned to, etc. Some of these methods should be in model classes, such as invitation.rb and signed_up_user.rb. Break the complicated methods into shorter methods with clear names, and place these methods in the most appropriate class, moving a lot of functionality to the model classes.

Currently, after someone joins a team, pending invitations are not removed. There should be a method handling deletion of invitations (including declined invitations) to a user after that user joins a team. This should be a model method.

Though this class is not long, the code looks and reads like it is very complicated. Breaking it down into multiple methods with clear names and proper division of functionality between classes will be a challenge.

Motivation

Briefly talk about why invitation controller needed refactoring.

Design Changes

Accept Method

def accept
    @inv = Invitation.find(params[:inv_id])
    @inv.reply_status = 'A'
    @inv.save
    
    student = Participant.find(params[:student_id])
    
    #if you are on a team and you accept another invitation, remove your previous entry in the teams_users table.
    old_entry = TeamsUser.find(:first, :conditions => ['user_id = ? and team_id = ?', student.user_id, params[:team_id]])
    if old_entry != nil
      old_entry.destroy
    end
    
    #if you are on a team and you accept another invitation and if your old team does not have any members, delete the entry for the team
    other_members = TeamsUser.find(:all, :conditions => ['team_id = ?', params[:team_id]])
    if other_members.nil? || other_members.length == 0
      old_team = AssignmentTeam.find(:first, :conditions => ['id = ?', params[:team_id]])
      if old_team != nil
        old_team.destroy
      end

      #if a signup sheet exists then release all the topics selected by this team into the pool.
      old_teams_signups = SignedUpUser.find_all_by_creator_id(params[:team_id])
      if !old_teams_signups.nil?
        for old_teams_signup in old_teams_signups
          if old_teams_signup.is_waitlisted == false # i.e., if the old team was occupying a slot, & thus is releasing a slot ...
            first_waitlisted_signup = SignedUpUser.find_by_topic_id_and_is_waitlisted(old_teams_signup.topic_id, true)
            if !first_waitlisted_signup.nil?
              #As this user is going to be allocated a confirmed topic, all of his waitlisted topic signups should be purged
              first_waitlisted_signup.is_waitlisted = false
              first_waitlisted_signup.save

              #Also update the participant table. But first_waitlisted_signup.creator_id is the team id
              #so find one of the users on the team because the update_topic_id function in participant
              #will take care of updating all the participants on the team
              user_id = TeamsUser.find(:first, :conditions => {:team_id => first_waitlisted_signup.creator_id}).user_id
              participant = Participant.find_by_user_id_and_parent_id(user_id,old_team.assignment.id)
              participant.update_topic_id(old_teams_signup.topic_id)
               
              SignUpTopic.cancel_all_waitlists(first_waitlisted_signup.creator_id, SignUpTopic.find(old_teams_signup.topic_id)['assignment_id'])
            end # if !first_waitlisted_signup.nil
            # Remove the now-empty team from the slot it is occupying.
          end # if old_teams_signup.is_waitlisted == false
          old_teams_signup.destroy
        end
    end
 end

def accept
    @inv = Invitation.find(params[:inv_id])
    @inv.reply_status = 'A'
    @inv.save

    invited_user_id = Participant.find(params[:student_id]).user_id
    
    #Remove the users previous team since they are accepting an invite for possibly a new team.
    TeamsUser.remove_team(invited_user_id, params[:team_id])
    #Accept the invite and return boolean on whether the add was successful
    add_successful = Invitation.accept_invite(params[:team_id], @inv.from_id, @inv.to_id)
    #If add wasn't successful because team was full display message
    unless add_successful
      flash[:error]= "The team already has the maximum number of members."
    end

    redirect_to :controller => 'student_team', :action => 'view', :id => Participant.find(params[:student_id]).id
end