SemanticCodeGen

Code generation libraries for .Net using structured data as project starting point.

Introduction

The motivation for creating this project is to find a way to leverage the power of JSON-LD and web vocabularies in order to be able to build entire application suites based solely on project descriptions delivered in the form of structured data types like JSON-LD or RDFa.

Phase I

1. Get structured input for a given vocabulary.
2. Translate structured input to json-ld
3. Create mapping from json-ld to C# types
4. Translate from vocabulary to C# code using Microsoft's System.CodeDom
5. Generate entities / interface / etc.

Phase II

1. Create standard set of project templates for:
   • ADO.NET Data Access Layer using EF CodeFirst
2. Use output from phase I as CodeFirst Migrations input to data access layer

Phase III

1. Create standard set of project templates for:
   • ODataV4 WebAPI
   • ASP.Net MVC 5
2. Use ADO.NET Data Access Layer from Phase II
3. In Mvc, Scaffold Entity Views / Controllers that support the following functions for each Entity: - (B)rowse - (R)ead - (E)dit - (A)dd - (D)elete - (S)earch - (L)ist
4. In MVC Views, add application/json+ld and microdata to every view generated and update with data
5. In ODataV4, Create ODataConfig, EntitySet Controllers, etc. from Data Access Layer Phase II component

Phase IV

1. Add OAuth 2 Support / Integration for all created components

Final

1. Create looser coupling between components to allow support of wider range of frameworks, persistence, etc.
2. Add ability to choose which actions are included / not included in created code by leveraging JSON-LD Actions or DOAP or something
3. Expose Service API via structured data to aid in discoverability

The general apporach will be to user another third party tool (jsonld.js)