README.md

HospitalWeightMonitor

a toy project

ASSUMPTIONS

• Patient: each patient has only First Name and Last Name
• Graph: shows the weight history
• No authentication and authroization is implemented
• the requirement on "Show a table of previously input items for the selected patient" is vague. The implementation assumes the previously input items are referred to weight only.
• No testing is implemented
• No tracing is implemented, only exception is logged using NLog in the file format

STRUCTURE

• the backend is a Web API in C# + Entity Framework + OWIN + SQL Express
• the front end is AngularJS + Material Design
• Hospital.Data: the project contains data entities, Code-First
• Hospital.Services: the business layer + DTO
• Hospital.WebAPI: the Web API project, versioned
• Hospital.Common + Hospital.Web.Common: some shared functionalities
• Hospital.PatientManager.Web: the front end website

DEPENDENCIES

• generic unit of work: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Repository.Pattern/
• angularJs: https://angularjs.org/
• angular material design: https://material.angularjs.org/latest/#/
• ui router: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
• angular charts + d3: https://github.com/chinmaymk/angular-charts/

FEATURES

• add a new patient
• update the patient's name
• record a patient's weight
• remove a patient
• remove a patient's weight
• check the patient's weight change diagram

POTENTIAL FEATURES

• some improvements in the performance
• a list of recent select patients
• authorization and authentication
• show histories of changes on deleted records
• search and filter by patient's name

DATA DESIGN

• the intented design is nothing to be deleted: insert only, never update
• there is an operation exposed for deleting a patient, and it's for testing only
• each patient has a patient information, which contains only First Name and Last Name
• each patient has a weight table, each record represents a weight record
• when query a patient summary, only the latest record from those child-tables will be returned

SETUP

• open the solution file
• hit F5 or click the run button
• the solution is setup to have multiple start up, so the default browser will launch 2 websites: one is the WebAPI, another is the front-end portal
• the machine must have SQL Express installed
• no need to run update-database
• there is no connection string defined in the web.config, hence the default location will be used. A new database file is likely to be created under the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA