A tool for choosing recipients for a gift exchange. You supply N categories (classic version is wear,read,want,need). Each person will give N gifts and receive N gifts, one from each category. No gift-giver will have the same recipient twice, and you can specify edges in the graph that are not allowed (for instance, excluding significant others from getting each other).
PeopleFile contains a comma-separated list of people. You can specify a disallowed pairing (for example significant other) using a colon (see example PeopleFile)
The default gift categories are wear,read,want,need. Right now there are two other hardcoded options: 'experience' which swaps 'need' for an open-ended 'experience' category, and 'panedmic' which swaps 'eat' in for 'read' and turns 'experience' into 'pandemic feat' i.e. some kind of open-ended pandemic-friendly activity.
Generates a message to each gift-giver listing their recipients and get categories for each.
Known issues:
- Works best when the number of nodes is greater than the number of edges.
- Can get stuck on situations with no solution (stay tuned for that fix).
Todos:
- Automatically send emails to gift-givers
- Backtrack if stuck
Example Compilation (from the gift-exchange/src directory):
javac com/candybutton/christmas/giftexchange/*.java
java com.candybutton.christmas.giftexchange/PeoplePickerController ../PeopleFile.txt
also try
java com.candybutton.christmas.giftexchange/PeoplePickerController ../PeopleFile.txt experience
or
java com.candybutton.christmas.giftexchange/PeoplePickerController ../PeopleFile.txt books
or
java com.candybutton.christmas.giftexchange/PeoplePickerController ../PeopleFile.txt pandemic