samedi 13 juillet 2019

Intermediate library providing CRUD functionality: Related Work

I am currently planning to create a library (I call it CRUD Library) that serves as an intermediate layer for a developer between his own code and the external UI/data-presentation library. The external library could be for example a library that displays lists or let the users manipulate lists (delete entries, sort, search etc). My plan is to create this intermediate layer that encapsulates the 3rd party library details and only exposes a simpler to use “CRUD” layer for most common use cases to speed up the development for most scenarios. I created a drawing to explain the idea in more detail

The developer would this way be able to check if one of the templates provided already fit his user story (this would be User story 1 in the image) or if he would implement the outermost layer himself and use the CRUD layer (User story 2 in the image) or if his use case is so specific that he still needs to talk to the 3rd party library manually.

The idea is to find a few generic data manipulation patterns (that's why I want to call it CRUD library) that can be reused on any 3rd party library, so no matter how the 3rd party library defines its own interface I would want to expose a CRUD interface on top that the developer is already used to go use it instead. Similar to an Adapter pattern but on a library pattern level.

The template layer on top of the CRUD layer is an additional extension of the idea and it would, of course, be different for each 3rd party library but I want to research if also there I can find common patterns for very different libraries and target data structures.

My question is if anybody knows any existing projects or research in such a direction or has any other insights they might want to share, I am open to any feedback or critic, thanks!

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