March 12 & 13, 2007 Fusebox 5.5 Scaffolding Kevin Roche Objective Internet Ltd

Who am I? Kevin Roche Cold Fusion Programmer11 years Internet Development 12 years Adobe Registered CF Trainer 8 years TVCFUG Manager Team Fusebox Member

12 & 13, Themes for Fusebox 5.5 Simplification  The main complaint about Fusebox 4.x through Fusebox 5.1 is the use of XML to configure the application.  CFCs can replace Fusebox.xml Circuit.xml  Default values for most configuration

Themes for Fusebox 5.5 Extensibility  Lexicons – Standard Lexicons for ColdSpring, Reactor, Transfer  Plugins – Standard Plugin for Assertions  Scaffolding – Scaffolder Code Generator Quickly generating basic data management applications. March 12 & 13,

What is scaffolding ? Architecture Building Scaffolding  Support during the building process.  Building Blocks which we modify and are actually used by the application. Scaffolder = Component Factory March 12 & 13,

What does it do? Database Introspection Code Generation March 12 & 13,

XML Metadata What? More XML!!!! A standardised way to define the data in the application. Extracted from the database by DB Introspection phase. Can be edited to improve generated code. March 12 & 13,

Code Generation Phase Uses Peter Bell’s cfTemplate ColdFusion based Template No need to learn XSLT! Create your own Templates  Your application can be converted into a template.  Now you can generate more of the same. March 12 & 13,

How do you use it? Copy the sample index.cfm file into your application Add the following parameter to your URL: index.cfm?scaffolding.go=display March 12 & 13,

Demo March 12 & 13, Click Next

Configuration March 12 & 13, Choose a Datasource Give your Project a name Choose a Template You can decide to omit some tables

Comments March 12 & 13,

Code Generation March 12 & 13, Choose to: Introspect Build Watch your code being built

Completed Application March 12 & 13, List Page Edit Page

Generated Code Structure Controller Forum Model mForum View vLayout vForum March 12 & 13,

Controller Fuseactions List View Add Add_Action Edit Edit_Action Delete March 12 & 13,

Model (ColdSpring template version) circuit.xml xxxxService xxxxRecord xxxxDAO xxxxGateway xxxxVO xxxxTO March 12 & 13,

Display Pages dsp_layout.cfm dsp_display_xxxx.cfm dsp_form_xxxx.cfm dsp_list_xxx.cfm What data’s displayed? March 12 & 13,

Roll your own Some examples of metadata.cfc methods getTablesFromXML() getSelectedTableAlias() getFieldsFromXML(table:string) getPKFieldsFromXML(table:string) getJoinedFieldsFromXML(table:string) getRelationshipsFromXML(table:string, type:string) March 12 & 13,

Roll your own cfTemplate code generator becomes > #getProject()# becomes $$getProject()$$ March 12 & 13,

DB Introspection Phase Current Status – Dec 2007 MSSQL 2000 or 2005  Oracle – Volunteers Needed  MySQL – Volunteers Needed  Doug Hughes has offered code from Reactor March 12 & 13,

Code Generation Phase Current Status – Templates Now Available  Reactor & Fusebox XML Based Maintenance Application  ColdSpring & Fusebox XML Based Maintenance Application Templates Under Construction  Coldspring & Fusebox CFC based Maintenance Application March 12 & 13,

Future Plans CFC based templates Wireframe tool as a datasource Introspect CFCs Application specific templates  Forums  Shop  Suggestions ? March 12 & 13,

Questions ? March 12 & 13,