Data Evolution in conjunction with Domain Specific Languages Intermediate Presentation Guido Smeets
Overview Recap of the Problem Description Recap Research Questions Current Status Implementation Details Observations
Recap: Problem Description Handwritten Generated Handwritten
Recap: Research Questions Research and implement a solution to generate relational database schemas for the data models and business logic to operate on these data models; Research and implement a solution to generate deltas for the relational database for different version of the same data model.
Current Status DB Creation Fully Functional DB Evolution Partially Functional Fully Functional Partially Functional Not Functional Partially Functional
Implementation: Specification Language Module News { Entity Article { UniqueName [!]: String; Title : String; SubTitle String; Location : String; HyperLink String; ShortIntro : Text; ArticleText : Text; } Entity Category { UniqueName [!]: String; Description String; } Relationship { Category: 1!; Article : n?; } ! : Unique Constraint on : Multi-Lingual Attribute ? : Optional : Website Bound Entity ^ : Tree Structure
Implementation: Specification Language Module News { Entity Article { UniqueName [!]: String; Title : String; SubTitle : String; Location : String; HyperLink String; ShortIntro : Text; ArticleText : Text; } Entity Category { UniqueName [!]: String; Description String; } Relationship { Category: 1!; Article : n?; }
Implementation: Generation Pipeline
Implementation: Transformation Overview
Implementation: Data Model Evolution Remove all current Foreign Key Constraints Add new Entities Add new Attributes to existing Entities Perform data preserving operations Remove Attributes from Entities Remove Entities Restore existing Foreign Key Constraints & Add new Foreign Key Constraints
Implementation: Data Model Evolution Module News { Entity Article { UniqueName [!]: String; Title : String; } Module News { Entity Article { UniqueName [!]: String; Title : String; }
Observations Code too immature to be converted to templates Restricted possibilities in Repleo templates disallows Template hacking Multi-Tier Transformation Pipeline enhances consistency between different target platforms Development is an iterative process which involves a lot of rework. More tooling to help the developer with this process is needed.
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