Library

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Implement a system to manage the book retrieval of a public library. The system must meet the following requirements.

R1: Book information

When a Book object must be created, the following info is provided: author and title.
These properties are accessible through corresponding getter methods.
The toString() conversion method provides a textual representation of the object according to the following format: "author, title" (comma plus space).

R2: Adding books to the library

The Library is organized according to the following structure:

it has three floors
Each floor contains 30 closets (closets are identified by codes like "C1", which are unique within the same floor only)
Each closet contains 6 shelves
Each shelf contains up to 10 books

The Library class provides methods to add() a book in a given position and to find out whether a given shelf (in a given closet on given floor) contains() a specified book.

R3: Getting all books in a closet

Given the name of a closet (on a given floor), the getBooks() method of class Library returns a string representing the content of the closet. The string lists all contained books, grouped by shelf (i.e., for i-th shelf, the returned string contains the header "Shelf i", which is followed by the list of books, one per line).

R4: Getting a book position

Given a Book object, it is possible to obtain its position in the library. To this aim, the getFloor(), getCloset(), and getShelf() methods are provided by class Book.

R5: Searching for a book

The Library provides a find() method to look for a specific book, given its author and title.