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User Guide

Introduction

Overwhelmed by all your editorial tasks at the publishing company? Sick of having to manually keep track of all the work that your slaves manga authors have to do? Fret not, as MangaTantou is here!

MangaTantou keeps tracks of the authors under your charge in a catalog, showing you all mangas they have written, and their deadlines. As an editor, it is also your right to know how much your slaves authors are earning! MangaTantou takes note of how many copies have been sold by each of the mangas under your charge and calculates the revenue for you, increasing your efficiency at work.

Quick Start

1. Ensure that you have Java 17 or above installed.
2. Download the latest version of MangaTantou from here.
3. Open your favourite terminal app and run java -jar <path to MangaTantou.jar file>

Features

NOTE:

• Command flags can be specified in any order. If the flag requires a field, ensure that it is placed right after the flag after a space (e.g. catalog -d -a Kubo Tite and catalog -a Kubo Tite -d both delete the author Kubo Tite from the catalog).
• MangaTantou’s parser is designed to look for its valid flags (i.e. -a, -d, -s) and will stop at each flag and process the inputs between the valid flags as arguments for the preceding flag (i.e. catalog -a Kubo Tite -a Bleach will give just Kubo Tite). In other words, the parser is smart enough to ignore duplicate flags where it is not expecting them and will only take the first valid input it encounters. Should the user require an input that contains a flag (i.e. Kubo -a Tite is the author’s name), we recommend that the user prepends the offending part of the name with an additional dash (i.e. Kubo --a Tite). This is a tradeoff that MangaTantou’s parser takes for flexibility in argument inputs.
• Whenever you encounter AUTHOR_NAME or MANGA_NAME, ensure that they are not longer than 40 characters long.
• Names of authors and mangas are case-sensitive. For instance Attack on Titan and ATTACK on Titan will be considered as two different mangas. This is due to the unique use case of names in publishing houses, where copyright and branding through stylization of names is extremely important in the industry.

Adding Authors: catalog -a

The catalog -a command allows you to add Authors to your catalog so that MangaTantou can keep track of all the manga created by the authors under your management. Once an author is added,MangaTantou will monitor the details of the manga they have published, including sales data, deadlines, and earnings, making it easy to manage multiple authors at once.

Format: catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME>

• The Author to add should not already exist in the catalog.

Examples of usage:

• catalog -a Kubo Tite
• catalog -a Oda Eiichiro

Adding Mangas: catalog -a -m

The catalog -a -m command creates a new Manga before associating it with an Author in the catalog. By adding mangas, MangaTantou can keep track of each title, including deadlines and sales data, allowing you to monitor all the works an author is responsible for.

Format: catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME>

• The Manga to add should not already exist in the catalog.
• MangaTantou will create the associated Author if it does not already exist within the catalog.
• Note that two Mangas will be considered as different only if they have different titles and authors.

Examples of usage:

• catalog -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach
• catalog -m One Piece -a Oda Eiichiro

Deleting Authors and Mangas: catalog -a -d and catalog -a -m -d

The catalog -a -d and catalog -a -m -d commands allow you to remove authors and mangas from your catalog in MangaTantou. This feature is useful for managing your catalog by removing inactive authors or discontinued manga titles.

Format:

• catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -d
  • deletes the Author and all associated Mangas from the catalog.
• catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -d
  • only deletes the specific Manga associated with the Author, leaving the author and their other works in the catalog.
• The Author or Manga to delete must exist within the catalog.

Examples of usage:

• catalog -a Kubo Tite -d
• catalog -d -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach

Add Sales Data to a Manga: sales

Adds sales data to an existing manga. This command will overwrite the previous sales data if ran again. Sales data consists of quantity of manga sold, the unit price per manga, and the total revenue. The total revenue is calculated by MangaTantou, through the multiplication of the manga’s unitPrice and quantitySold.

Format: sales -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -q <QUANTITY_SOLD> -p <PRICE_PER_UNIT>

• The QUANTITY_SOLD must be a non-negative Integer less than 1000000000.
• The PRICE_PER_UNIT must be a non-negative Double less than 1000000000.

Examples of usage:

sales -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach -q 10000 -p 11.90

sales -a Izumi Tsubaki -m Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun -q 1700 -p 12.90

Add Deadline to a Manga: schedule

Adds a deadline to an existing manga. -b stands for by-date (in case you are wondering why it is not -d, which is used for deleting in other commands). The deadline is set to ‘None’ by default. Whenever this is called, the previous deadline is overwritten.

Format: schedule -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -b <DEADLINE>

• The DEADLINE must be a String.

Examples of usage:

schedule -a Hirohiko Araki -m Phantom Blood -b January 1, 1987

schedule -a Hirohiko Araki -m Stone Ocean -b December 7, 1999

NOTE: The deadline does not need to follow any set format. This allows for greater flexibility in setting deadlines (e.g. 20 Jan 2024, Tuesday, After Mum's bday, in 2 days). It is up to the user to define what is valid.

Viewing Authors: view

The view command allows you to view all the Authors in your catalog in a nicely formatted table.

Format: view

Example output:

no. | Author Name
----------------------------------------------
  1 | Kubo Tite
  2 | Oda Eiichiro

Viewing Mangas and Other Related Information: view -a [-s] [-b]

The view -a command allows you to view all the Mangas authored by the provided Author in a nicely formatted table. If the -b flag (short for “by date” or “deadline”) is specified, the deadlines of each Manga is also shown. If the -s flag (short for “sales data”) is specified, the sales data of each Manga is also shown. These flags are additive, so specifying both will lead to both sets of information to be shown.

Format: view -a <AUTHOR_NAME> [-s] [-b]

Examples of usage:

• view -a Kubo Tite
• view -a Oda Eiichiro -s
• view -a Hirohiko Araki -s -b

Example output:

view -a Hirohiko Araki -s -b
Mangas authored by Hirohiko Araki, Total: 2
no. | Manga Name                               | Deadline             | Unit Price | Units Sold | Revenue
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1 | Phantom Blood                            | January 1, 1987      | 2.50       | 10         | 25.00
  2 | Stone Ocean                              | December 7, 1999     | 9.00       | 50         | 450.00

Exiting the Program: bye

To stop using MangaTantou and exit the app while saving your data, enter bye to the command line.

Saving Your Data

There is no need to manually save your data. MangaTantou automatically does so for you every time a command that modifies the catalog is performed (e.g. deleting an author/manga, adding sales data), or when bye is entered to close the app.

Manually Editing the Data File

MangaTantou’s catalog data is saved in a JSON file in the path [JAR file location]/data/catalog.json. Advanced users can manually update data directly by editing the file.

CAUTION: It is recommended to make a backup of your data file before manually editing it. To avoid the risk of your data not being restored, exercise caution when editing the file. MangaTantou checks for formatting and value errors and tries to discard the corrupted entry while keeping valid information if possible. If that fails, the catalog will be deleted and a new empty one will be used instead.

LIMITATIONS:

• If you decide to manually edit the data file such that an entry contains a field that is impossible to add via normal commands (i.e. authorName Kubo -a Tite instead of Kubo --a Tite), you will not be able to access this entry in via normal commands in the future unless this change is corrected.
• Specifying duplicate key-value pairs in the data file will cause the pair closest to the end of the file to be taken. This is a limitation of the Gson 2.11.0 library. The following snippet will create an author with name “Hirohiko Araki”.

  {
  "authorName": "Kubo Tite",
  "authorName": "Hirohiko Araki",
  "mangaList": []
  }
  

FAQ

Q: How do I transfer my data to another computer?
A: First, exit from MangaTantou. Then, copy the data and logs folder (located in the same folder as the .jar file) into the new location of the .jar file.

Q: Why does MangaTantou not have an edit function?
A: Published authors and mangas in MangaTantou are generally not required to change their names due to potential confusion that could be generated with audiences. If the editor still has strong wishes to change the names of authors or mangas, they can do so by editing the catalog.json file directly, while following our naming conventions and guidelines.

Command Summary

Action	Format and Examples
Add Author	catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> e.g. catalog -a Kubo Tite
Add Manga	catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> e.g. catalog -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach
Delete Author	catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -d e.g. catalog -d -a Kubo Tite
Delete Manga	catalog -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -d e.g. catalog -d -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach
Add Sales Data	sales -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -q <QUANTITY_SOLD> -p <PRICE_PER_UNIT> e.g. sales -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach -q 10000 -p 11.90
Add Deadline	schedule -a <AUTHOR_NAME> -m <MANGA_NAME> -b <DEADLINE> e.g. schedule -a Kubo Tite -m Bleach -b Monday November 11
View Authors	view
View Mangas	view -a <AUTHOR_NAME> [-b] [-s] e.g. view -a Hirohiko Araki -s -b
Exit	bye