Added the creator of the jar to compile and create jar

The jar converts json configuration into normal

voting-booth-gui/src/main/java/meerkat/voting/gui/Main.java

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 
-
 /**
  * Created by Vladimir Eliezer Tokarev on 8/27/2016.
  * The current voting-booth intialization process is next:
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 public class Main extends Application {
 
     private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class);
-    private final String CONFIGURATION_PATH = "/configuration/configuration.bin";
+    private final String DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_PATH = "/configuration/configuration.bin";
     /**
      * Creates the VotingBoothConfigurationCreator and creates configuration based on given path
      * @return VotingBoothVonfiguration parsed from json file
@@ -30,9 +29,7 @@ public class Main extends Application {
      * @throws JSONException will be thrown if the json is unvalid
      */
     private VotingBoothConfiguration GetConfig() throws IOException, JSONException, URISyntaxException {
-
+        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(getClass().getResource(DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_PATH).getPath());
-
-        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(getClass().getResource(CONFIGURATION_PATH).getPath());
         BallotQuestionUIElementOuterClass.BallotQuestionsUIElements read_questions = BallotQuestionUIElementOuterClass.BallotQuestionsUIElements.parseFrom(fis);
         VotingBoothConfiguration votingBoothConfiguration = new VotingBoothConfiguration();
         votingBoothConfiguration.NameSelectionQuestion = read_questions.getQuestions(1);
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ public class Main extends Application {
     @Override
     public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception
     {
-        this.logger.debug("Running the app.");
+        this.logger.debug("Started Meerkat Voting GUI Application");
         ChainBuilder.Build(primaryStage, GetConfig());
         primaryStage.setTitle("Meerkat Polling Station");
         primaryStage.show();

voting-booth-gui/src/main/java/meerkat/voting/gui/configuration/Converter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package meerkat.voting.gui.configuration;
 
+import joptsimple.OptionParser;
+import joptsimple.OptionSet;
 import meerkat.protobuf.BallotQuestionUIElementOuterClass;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 
@@ -11,7 +13,13 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  * This class uses the configuration creator which converts json configuration into normal binary proto file
  */
 public class Converter {
-    private final static String OUTPUTNAME = "configuration.bin";
+    private final static String DEFAULT_OUTPUT_PATH = "configuration.bin";
+    private final static String DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_PATH = "VotingBoothConfiguration.json";
+    private final static String CONVERTER_DESCRIPTION = "Welcome to simple voting booth " +
+            "configuration converter (which converts json voting booth configuration into " +
+            "binary configuration).\n-p    (path) stands for the path to the json file configuration " +
+            "which we want to convert into binary file.\n-o    (output) stands for the path to which we " +
+            "want to write the output binary file.\n-?,/?,help    (help) stands for this description.\n";
 
     /**
      * Reads the json configuration from given path
@@ -27,9 +35,10 @@ public class Converter {
     /**
      * Converts the configuration file into single binary proto file and writes it to the disc
      * @param configuration the configuration object
+     * @param outputPath the path to the new configuraiton file
      */
-    private static void ConvertJsonIntoBinaryFile(VotingBoothConfiguration configuration) throws IOException {
+    private static void ConvertJsonIntoBinaryFile(VotingBoothConfiguration configuration, String outputPath) throws IOException {
-        FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(OUTPUTNAME);
+        FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(outputPath);
         BallotQuestionUIElementOuterClass.BallotQuestionsUIElements read_questions =
                 BallotQuestionUIElementOuterClass
                         .BallotQuestionsUIElements
@@ -42,12 +51,35 @@ public class Converter {
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
-        System.out.println("args are: " + args);
         try {
-            ConvertJsonIntoBinaryFile(GetVotingBoothJsonConfiguration(args[0]));
+            OptionParser parser = new OptionParser( "p:o:?*.::" );
+            String configurationPath = "";
+            String outputPath = "";
+            OptionSet options = parser.parse(args);
+
+            if (options.has("?") || options.has("help")){
+                System.out.println(CONVERTER_DESCRIPTION);
+            }
+            if (!options.has("p")){
+                configurationPath = DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_PATH;
+            }
+            if (options.has("p")){
+                configurationPath = (String) options.valueOf("p");
+                System.out.println("Configuraiton read from " + configurationPath + ".\n");
+            }
+            if (!options.has("o")){
+                outputPath = DEFAULT_OUTPUT_PATH;
+            }
+            if (options.has("o")){
+                outputPath = (String) options.valueOf("o");
+            }
+
+            VotingBoothConfiguration config = GetVotingBoothJsonConfiguration(configurationPath);
+            System.out.print("yeyyy");
+            ConvertJsonIntoBinaryFile(config, outputPath);
         }
         catch (Exception e) {
-            System.out.println("Exception thrown: " + e);
+            System.out.println("Exception thrown: " + e + ", " + e.getMessage());
         }
     }
 

voting-booth-gui/src/main/java/meerkat/voting/gui/configuration/VotingBoothConfigurationCreator.java

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public class VotingBoothConfigurationCreator {
      * @throws JSONException will be thrown if the parsing will fail
      */
     private JSONArray getJsonFromPath(String path) throws FileNotFoundException, JSONException {
-        String content = new Scanner(new File(getClass().getResource(path).getPath())).useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
+        String content = new Scanner(new File(path)).next();
         JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(content);
         this.logger.debug("Created json object from from configuration path.");
         return (JSONArray)jsonObject.get("questions");