Web Programming

Different Codings

The objective of this exercise is to write a script codings.js that allows a text to be encoded with different codings.

Tasks

1. Implement a constructor function CharCoding(char, code) which creates objects having a character and an associated code.
2. Implement a constructor function Coding(name, charCodings, delimiter):
   • name is the name of the coding (e.g. "Morse")
   • charCodings is an array of character codings
   • delimiter is the delimiter used to separate charcater codings
3. Add the following functions to the prototype of the Coding function:
   • encodeChar(char) returns the encoding of a single character
   • encode(text) returns the encoding of a text
4. Use the Morse alphabet to define an array of character codings and use the array to create a morseCoding object.
5. Implement additional codings, for example a hexCoding that converts characters into their hexadecimal code or a caesarCoding that shifts each letter by one.
6. Add the statement module.exports = { morseCoding, hexCoding, caesarCoding }; to your script and use the script main.js to test the encoding manually with Node.js:

   node main.js

7. (Optional) Install the Jest testing framework and use the script codings.test.js to test the encoding automatically:

   npm install jest
   npx jest

Solution