Re: [forge-dev] [aerogear-dev] iOS Scaffolding

[sebi2706]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Corinne Krych <[e-mail]>wrote:

On 18 Feb 2014, at 18:05, Sebastien Blanc <[e-mail]> wrote:

Hi Folks !

While I was watching Matzew's screencast[1] about using the AeroGear iOS

Template (which bootstrap/help to create a new iOS project) I was thinking

about pushing the concept even further.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to scaffold a complete CRUD Native iOS

app ? And of course by using the bullets we already have  :  Forge.

You would generate server and client side at once?

Well, the iOS generation will be just one specific forge command, the rest

are just "existing/vanilla" forge commands (entiies creation, REST

endpoints creation)

The idea would be to have the same stuff as the HTML5 Scaffolding

plugin/addon but instead of generating JS and html files we generate *.h

and *.m files (and of course a complete iOS app structure). The general

workflow would stay the same : create a JEE project, generate entities,

generate REST endpoints and scaffold the client.

So basically all we would have to do is to write those templates (+ some

code to write to the correct location / create the skeleton).

>

I would start with an app generated with iOS template for simple Pipe, and

then add to it. See my questions below.

I will be glad to start on this but I would need some help from the iOS

gurus for one thing : having a clean iOS CRUD App  from which I could

reverse engineer/extract the templates. This app, while staying simple,

should contain all the possible use cases : String, numbers, boolean, Date

but also some relation between entities  (1-to-1, 1-to-many) :

With Pipes and Stores, we use more a Key/Value approach. Not sure what you

have in mind to represent relation.

Well, not sure how it is implemented in iOS but for instance when you

choose a team, a list of players should also be retrieved.

In term of UI what do you want to see?

first screen: Team TableView with static table cell, Players and

Tournaments cell link to second screen TableView

second screen: Player TableView with a list of player displaying only

name, selecting a player will go to third screen Player details

third screen: Player Details static table view with date display etc...

Then we might need a descriptive/configurable way of saying to forge this

is my main screen, on that list display 'player name' etc...

What's your view on that?

We could do like the grails html5 scaffold plugin : the main screen

contains a list of the entities, when you select an entity by default you

go to the list view and in the bottom bar you have a button to create a new

one.

When a entity entry is selected in the bottom bar you can : edit or delete

I started with this simple idea :

Team {

  name : String

  hasMany : Player

  hasMany: Tournamenent // many-to-many

}

Player {

name : String

dateOfBirth: Date

injured: boolean

hasOne : Team

}

Tournament {

name: String

price : number

hasMany: Team

}

The gist is here https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/9074932

So, if anyone would like to create this app, I could start from there

with a first draft. I will also try on my side but my objective-c skills

are not really good enough right now

team work

I think that could be a very cool feature.

A last very important remark : you can reread this message and replace

iOS with Android because once we got it shaped for iOS we could do exactly

the same for Android.

make sense

Sebi

https://vimeo.com/86978742

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