We are talking about the object model here - in other words the underneath
framework.

Have we started investigating the visualization strategy on the tooling
front?



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Susankha Nirmala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have started working on $subject with Srinath.
>
> As we discussed, I have done a research of some data transformation
> technologies and architectures of them.
>
> 1) We assume all data types we map can be represented as a tree and
> accessed via a/b/c xpath like  format. For example, values in relational
> table we represented via one level paths.
>
>
> 2) We describe the mapping using a Avro like format. Let us take an
> example. Lets assume we need to convert following XML file to a JSON
> document.
>
> <employee>
> <firstname>Susankha</firstname>
>  <lastname>Nirmala</lastname>
> <address>Street,123,State</address>
>  <dob>1985.10.31</dob>
> </employee>
>  We define the mapping using following Avro like format.
>
> mapping.json :
>
> {
>  fullName:concat($fname, $lname),
> Address{
>  address:
> {
>    "Street":"str.split($address, ",")[0]",
>    "Zip":"str.split($address, ',')[1]",
>   "State":"str.split($address, ',')[2]",
>  }
> "Age":"date.getAge($dob)"
>  }
> }
>
> Here str.split(..) date.getAge() are functions, and we pass reference to
> input document via xpath like paths starting with $.
>
> When we apply the mapping, the output will look like following. We will
> use defined path to travel the input file and extract values.
>
> {
> "fullname":"Susankha Nirmala",
>  "address":{
>  "Street": "Street",
>   "Zip": "123",
>   "State": "State"
>   }
> }
>
> Note, the output can be anything.  For example, it can be a database and
> we will auto map the structure define in mapping.config to output type.
> (e.g. if output is a database, then it can only have one level).
>
>
> After Comparing this two schemas, Srinath and myself decided to use JSON
> for representing data mapping configuration. Also we decided to use Jackson
> library for processing JSON configurations.
>  --Susankha and Srinath
>
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Thanks,
Samisa...

Samisa Abeysinghe
VP Engineering
WSO2 Inc.
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