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PawPal Chatbot Overview 🐾

PawPal is a task management chatbot that enables users to organize their tasks conveniently via command-line interaction.

Key Features

1. Command parsing and delegation
2. Task types:
   • ToDo tasks
   • Deadlines with date and time
   • Events with a start and end time
3. Persistent storage for task lists

Components Overview

• Parser: Handles user command parsing.
• Task List: Manages the tasks by adding, removing, or marking them​.
• Storage: Loads and saves tasks to ./data/tasks.txt.
• Printer: Provides formatted responses for user .
• UI: Displays messages and reads user input​s.

Features:

• Managing tasks
• Improved UI
• Giving PawPal more personality

Here's how you can interact with PawPal to add an event

event CS2103DE finals /from 02 May 2025 0900AM /to 02 May 2025 1100AM

Tip: Always provide a detailed description for tasks to ensure effective task management ⌚ .

Main function of PawPal:

public class PawPal {

    /**
     * The entry point of the PawPal application.
     *
     * @param args Command-line arguments (not used).
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PawPal().run();
    }

    private final Parser parser;
    private final Storage storage;
    private final TaskList taskList;
    private final Ui ui;

    /**
     * Constructs a new PawPal.core.PawPal instance.
     * Initializes the storage, task list, UI, and parser components.
     */
    public PawPal() {
        String filePath = "./data/tasks.txt";
        this.storage = new Storage(filePath);
        this.taskList = new TaskList(storage);
        this.ui = new Ui();
        this.parser = new Parser(taskList);
    }

    /**
     * Runs the main loop of the PawPal.core.PawPal chatbot.
     * Continuously reads user input, processes commands, and prints responses.
     * The loop exits when the user enters the "bye" command.
     */
    public void run() {
        ui.showGreeting();

        // Main input loop
        while (true) {
            String input = ui.readCommand();

            // Exit the application when the user types "bye"
            if (input.equalsIgnoreCase("bye")) {
                ui.showBye();
                break;
            }

            // Pass the user input to the parser for processing
            parser.parse(input);

            try {
                storage.saveTasks(taskList.getTasks());
            } catch (IOException e) {
                ui.showSavingError();
            }
        }
    }
}

Developed from the repo here

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