Mini-project 5: Implementing an API

Instructions

The purpose of this mini-project is to give you practice with implementing an API.

Create a module called MP5. In MP5, create the classes necessary to implement and test the following API. Remember that APIs are public facing, so your only public methods should be those described below, though you can use whatever private methods and data members you would like.

This API is for a simple statistics library called SimpleStats. It should have the following methods:

Method	Description
`SimpleStats()`	The default constructor
`SimpleStats(data:float[])`	A constructor that takes in the data to process as an array. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if `data` is empty.
`SimpleStats(data:Iterable<float>)`	A constructor that takes in the data to process as any kind of Iterable data structure (e.g., an ArrayList). Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if `data` is `null` or empty.
`setData(data:float[]):void`	Sets the data to be processed. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if `data` is empty.
`setData(data:Iterable<float>):void`	Sets the data to be processed. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if `data` is `null` or empty.
`getData():ArrayList<float>`	Returns the data as an ArrayList. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if `data` is `null` or empty.
`mean():float`	Returns the mean of the data. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if no data is present.
`median():float`	Returns the median value in the data. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if no data is present.
`max():float`	Returns the max value in the data. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if no data is present.
`min():float`	Returns the minimum value in the data. Throws an `InsufficientData` exception if no data is present.

You should include unit tests for each method.

Submission

Create a JAR file for MP5. See this page for the rubric. See the Canvas page to upload your submission.

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