Class Diagram for Facebook
Learn to create a class diagram for Facebook using the bottom-up approach.
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In this lesson, we’ll identify and design the classes, abstract classes, and interfaces based on the requirements we previously gathered from the interviewer in our Facebook social network system.
Components of Facebook
As mentioned, we will design the Facebook social network using a bottom-up approach.
Person
The Person class contains details derived from the User class, such as name, address, phone number, and email.
User
The User class is Facebook’s main class responsible for various operations, such as sending messages or friend requests to other users, creating or joining groups or pages, and numerous others.
The class diagram of these two classes is provided below:
Note: The
Userclass contains various methods representing user interactions and functionalities within the system. For brevity, only a subset of these methods is shown here.
Profile
The Profile class contains a Facebook user’s personal information, such as their profile and cover pictures, work and education details, and a list of places they’ve visited.
The visual representation of the Profile class is given below:
Work, education, and places
The Work, Education, and Places classes are used to provide relevant information and are involved in the Profile class.
The class representation of these classes is given below:
Page
The Page class represents a page on the Facebook platform. It contains the name, description, likes count, and a particular ID to uniquely identify the page.
The UML representation of the class is shown below:
Group
The Group class represents a particular group on the Facebook platform. It will contain the name, description, total users, and a unique ID to uniquely identify the group. In addition, it will have methods for adding new users and updating the group’s description.
The UML representation of the class is shown below: ...