[aerogear-dev] iOS Scaffolding

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 18 Feb 2014, at 18:05, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> 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
> >
> >
> > [1] https://vimeo.com/86978742
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