Code generator

The Kevoree Registry is a public application, accessible at http://registry.kevoree.org.
This application is basically a map of TypeDefinition <-> DeployUnit links. It is used to resolve the components, nodes, channels and groups binaries based on their TypeDefinition.

With that in mind, when adding a new platform to the Kevoree eco-system, it might be convenient to provide a code generator that is able to scaffold projects for the new targeted platform language.

The idea behind that is to ease the creation of a new DeployUnit for a specific TypeDefinition. Because the registry knows all about the available TypeDefinitions, and because a TypeDefinition contains all the necessary information to create a code skeleton (type, dictionary attributes, inputs, outputs). One could create a library that takes developer inputs to determine a TypeDefinition name and version, and then create the code skeleton for that specific TypeDefinition using the targeted language paradigm.

Example

In JavaScript, the code generator is provided by the Yeoman generator-kevoree. This generator is a command-line Node.js application that prompts questions to the developer in order to, in the end, create a kevoree-js project.

$ yo kevoree

Kevoree Project Generator:

[?] Would you like to start from an existing TypeDefinition from the Kevoree Registry? Yes
[?] Specify a TypeDefinition fully qualified name (eg. Ticker or my.company.MyType) org.kevoree.library.Ticker
[?] Which version would you like to use? (40 total versions) 5.2.10
[?] Choose your NPM module name: kevoree-comp-ticker
[?] Do you want this to be runnable by the browser runtime? No
[?] What is the license of your module? (MIT) LGPL-3.0

# ... keep on answering

And finally, the generator will create a clean project based on the Kevoree Registry TypeDefinition named Ticker in version 5.2.10 in the example:

$ tree -L 2
.
├── Gruntfile.js
├── kevs
│   └── main.kevs
├── lib
│   └── Ticker.js
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── (...)

With the Ticker skeleton be:

var AbstractComponent = require('kevoree-entities/lib/AbstractComponent');

var Ticker = AbstractComponent.extend({
    toString: 'Ticker',
    tdef_version: 1,

    dic_random: {
        optional: true,
        defaultValue: false,
    },
    dic_period: {
        optional: true,
        defaultValue: 3000,
    },

    start: function (done) {
        this.log.debug(this.toString(), 'START');
        done();
    },

    stop: function (done) {
        this.log.debug(this.toString(), 'STOP');
        done();
    },

    out_tick: function (msg) { /* noop */ }
});

module.exports = Ticker;

The Yeoman code generator v3.5.2 only complies with Kevoree v5.3.x or less