<SRS>SRS02 : Employee Management </SRS>
<Changes>
- Implemented serialization and deserialization for Employee and GeneralEmployee models
- Added FileManager integration to load employees from CSV files
- Introduced ApplicationConfig entries for employee file paths
- Updated Employee ID handling (getEmployeeId → getId) across project
- Modified FileIO to auto-create file if not found instead of throwing exception
- Added constructors for all employee types to support deserialization
- Implemented loadEmployees in service and loadStates in controller
- Ensured default admin creation if none exists during load
- Added StringHelper utility for extracting numeric IDs
- Extended Enums with string conversion and parsing utilities
- Added initial CSV files for Employee and GeneralEmployee data
- Improved login error message formatting and minor cleanup
- Setup gitignore to not track csv files
</Changes>
<UserStory>EMP001 Create Employee</UserStory>
<Changes>
- Updated employee creation flow to support different employee types and designations
- Set a default initial password for new employees
- Added basic authorization check utility
- Cleaned up employee model constructors for better consistency
Minor code cleanup and refactoring
</Changes>
<Review>
Smitha Mohan
</Review>
joelthomastrenser