Code Generation By Example

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Code Generation By Example
Its always about money

• Eyal Vardi
• Technology Consultant
• IKS LTD

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Composite Control Example

• Problem
• I need to expose out properties, methods and
  event of inner members
• Solution
• Automatic tools that do it for me, analyze and
  generate the code

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Demo 1 Control Delegation
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Class Flow
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Object Relation Mapping

• Problem
• Maintain a coordinated object-oriented in-memory
  and persistent SQL database schemes
• Solution
• Generate object-oriented code from SQL database
  scheme, vice versa, or both from a shared
  definition

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Architecture Components
Scheme Design(Creating the OO Model)
Code Generation
Logic Code
Complete Data Tier
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Scheme Design

• Define an object hierarchy
• The schemes are used as a blueprint for
  implementation code
• Classes attribute
• DataObject, Prefetch, Plural, Index
• Fields attribute
• Unique, DataRef, Dirty, Notify, Transient,
  Length, Lookup

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The Code Generator

• The generation is performed on the defined scheme
  templates
• Generated code is combined into the existing
  project
• Changing the scheme and re-generation can be
  performed at any stage of the project lifetime

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The Code Generator
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Templates

• The purpose of the templates is enabling a
  dynamic change and manipulation of the generated
  code
• Unique syntax composed of conditional statements,
  expressions and predefined code
• if, foreach, variable, call, include, write
  

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Complete Data Tier

• Server
• Building the DB
• Data layer
• Logic and Extensibility infrastructure
• Façade / Web-Service
• Client
• Proxy
• Data
• Logic
• UI
• Future expansion.

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Demo 2 ORM - PrimeData
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Criteria For Success

• Creating an overall and complete system
• that enables an extensive and complete
• solution to the software developer in terms
• of hiding the data manipulation and
• adaptation in the data tier.