元数据驱动的向导式构建CRUDWeb应用框架归纳.pdfVIP

元数据驱动的向导式构建 CRUD Web 应用框架 Wizard and CRUD Applications to Build other CRUD Applications Introduction After looking at the m inimalist m eta- m odel for CRUD applications and a few examples of on the fly code generation , lets now see how we can m ake it easier to build and manage CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) applications. In this article we will explore the new possibilities which open up when we decide to drop the XML and save the m etadata directly in the database. That way, we can use Evolutility (the on the fly code generator) as a CRUD application to m anage the metadata of other CRUD applications (the sam e way we already used it to m anage the data in our previous examples of to do list or address book). Basically, the application becom es the application designer. We will also look at a step wizard to build applications by deriving the DB structure from the UI instead of the m ore commonly used opposite way. Moving metadata from XML to database Sure, XML is human readable, but even with XSDs, it m ay not always be human writable, especially when it com es to m etadata. To get rid of the XML, we could either build a designer reading and persisting XML, or we could move the metadata into the database and m anage it with a new CRUD applications. The later option is much more fun and requires less code. With our simple m eta- model, going from XML to database is not too difficult: We can start by using one DB table per XML element and one DB column per XML attribute. We have 4 elements in the m eta-m odel: form , data , panel , and field . These can easily becom e 4 database