Re: Code Generation in Perl

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Nelson,

You might also want to check out the Turnkey project, 
http://www.sf.net/projects/turnkey

It does something similar to what you describe, but operates on the 
database SQL directly rather than requiring an XML descriptor.

-Allen


On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Nelson Ferraz wrote:

> Some time ago, I sent a message to the list, talking about this open 
> source application:
> 
> http://www.gnubis.com.br/cgi-local/crm/bin/crm.pl?template=pg_sel_contact
> 
> What I didn't tell you at the time, is that I've been working on a code 
> generation tool to generate a database-driven web application, like 
> this, in minutes.
> 
> First, you describe your application using a XML dialect called "AppML" 
> ("Application Markup Language"):
> 
> <project name="sample" title="Sample Application">
> 
>    <table name="contact" caption="contact" descriptor="name">
>      <field name="name" type="varchar" size="40" notnull="1" 
> caption="name"/>
>      <field name="organization" type="varchar" size="40" 
> caption="organization" visible="1"/>
>      <field name="address" type="varchar" size="40" caption="address"/>
>      <field name="city" type="varchar" size="40" caption="city"/>
>      <field name="state" type="varchar" size="40" caption="state"/>
>      <field name="country" type="varchar" size="40" caption="country"/>
>      <field name="phone" type="varchar" size="40" caption="work phone"/>
>      <field name="fax" type="varchar" size="40" caption="fax"/>
>      <field name="mobile" type="varchar" size="40" caption="mobile"/>
>      <field name="email" type="varchar" size="40" caption="e-mail" 
> visible="1"/>
>      <field name="notes" type="text" caption="notes"/>
>    </table>
> 
> </project>
> 
> That's it!
> 
> Given the XML file, a Perl script will generate the complete Perl code, 
> Class::DBI modules, templates, plugins, documentation and diagrams 
> automatically.
> 
> I'm releasing AppML under the GNU General Public License. The complete 
> source code is available here:
> 
> http://www.gnubis.com.br/bin/view/English/AppML
> 
> Any feedback will be appreciated!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Nelson
> 
> --
> Nelson Ferraz
> GNU BIS
>