I am looking for a long term partner to provide technical software development services for a client.
To demonstrate your skills I would ask to provide a solution to a technical test which should take approx 30mins to complete by an expert in Java language.
Test is as follows:
#Parental Control Service ##Scenario we are developing a next generation video platform. As part of a software engineering team, developing services for the platform and working on the story below. **Prevent access to movies based on parental control level** *As a customer I don’t want my account to be able to access movies that have a higher parental control level than my current preference setting.*
Your team has partnered with the Movie Meta Data team that provides a service that can return parental control information for a given movie.
##Instructions You are required to provide an implementation of a *ParentalControlService*. You may use Java version 6 or above. The service should accept as input the customer’s *parental control level preference* and a *movie id*. If the customer is able to watch the movie the *ParentalControlService* should indicate this to the calling client.
Please implement the *ParentalControlService* API.
The recommended time to complete this exercise should be between forty-five minutes and one-hour.
##Parental Control Levels U, PG, 12, 15, 18 Where U is the least restrictive and 18 is the most restrictive.
##Movie Service The Movie Meta Data team is currently developing the MovieService getParentalControlLevel call that accepts the *movie id* as an input and returns the parental control level for that movie as a string. This is a simple diagram of the interaction between the services:
This is a third party interface so you should not change it. The exceptions are checked exceptions.
##Acceptance Criteria
The following table describes the expected ParentalControlService result based on a given MovieService *getParentalControlLevel* response.
|MovieService getParentalControlLevel response|Description |ParentalControlService result | |---------------------------------------------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------| |Parental Control level |A string e.g. “PG” |If the parental control level of the movie is equal to or less than the customer’s preference indicate to the caller that the customer can watch the movie | |TitleNotFound exception |The movie service could not find the given movie|Indicate the error to the calling client.| |Technical failure exception |System error |Indicate that the customer cannot watch this movie |
We need to ensure that we always failsafe.
##What we look at *We are interested in code readability and structure and your use of best practice. *Please supply us with your source code in a single archive. The project should be self-contained. *The name of the root folder in the archive should contain your full name. *Please do not publish your solution in the public domain e.g. GitHub or a blog
