The Fake Geek's blog: Design a Call Center
Imagine you have a call center with three levels of employees: fresher, technical lead (TL), product manager (PM).There can be multiple employees, but only one TL or PM.An incoming telephone call must be allocated to a fresher who is free.
If a fresher can't handle the call, he or she must escalate the call to technical lead.If the TL is not free or not able to handle it, then the call should be escalated to PM.Design the classes and data structures for this problem.Implement a method getCallHandler().
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Imagine you have a call center with three levels of employees: fresher, technical lead (TL), product manager (PM).There can be multiple employees, but only one TL or PM.An incoming telephone call must be allocated to a fresher who is free.
If a fresher can't handle the call, he or she must escalate the call to technical lead.If the TL is not free or not able to handle it, then the call should be escalated to PM.Design the classes and data structures for this problem.Implement a method getCallHandler().
https://tianrunhe.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/design-the-classes-and-data-structures-for-a-call-center/
The way of handling abilities to handle the call is implemented by matching employee’s level and call’s level.
Escalation is implemented by increment of the level of the call.
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Escalation is implemented by increment of the level of the call.
public class CallHandler { static final int LEVELS = 3; // we have 3 levels of employees static final int NUM_FRESHERS = 5; // we have 5 freshers ArrayList<Employee>[] employeeLevels = new ArrayList[LEVELS]; // queues for each call’s rank Queue<Call>[] callQueues = new LinkedList[LEVELS]; public CallHandler() { // constructor } Employee getCallHandler(Call call) { for (int level = call.rank; level < LEVELS - 1; level++) { ArrayList<Employee> employeeLevel = employeeLevels[level]; for (Employee emp : employeeLevel) { if (emp.free) { return emp; } } } return null; } // routes the call to an available employee, or adds to a queue void dispatchCall(Call call) { // try to route the call to an employee with minimal rank Employee emp = getCallHandler(call); if (emp != null) { emp.ReceiveCall(call); } else { // place the call into queue according to its rank callQueues[call.rank].add(call); } } void getNextCall(Employee e) { // look for call for e’s rank }}class Call { int rank = 0; // minimal rank of employee who can handle this call public void reply(String message) { // reply } public void disconnect() { // disconnect }}class Employee { CallHandler callHandler; int rank; // 0- fresher, 1 - technical lead, 2 - product manager boolean free; Employee(int rank) { this.rank = rank; } void ReceiveCall(Call call) { // receive call } void CallHandled(Call call) { // call is complete } void CannotHandle(Call call) { // escalate call call.rank = rank + 1; callHandler.dispatchCall(call); free = true; callHandler.getNextCall(this); // look for waiting call }}class Fresher extends Employee { public Fresher() { super(0); }}class TechLead extends Employee { public TechLead() { super(1); }}class ProductManager extends Employee { public ProductManager() { super(2); }}