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Posted to dev@metamodel.apache.org by Michel Kern <ec...@gmail.com> on 2017/07/09 19:45:38 UTC
GitHub release: a "bud" of Apache MM to C# (.Net Core)
Hello
I've just published a "bud" of porting Apache MM from Java to C# (.Net Core)
It's there: https://github.com/Echopraxium/apache_metamodel_dotnet_core_bud
It is a limited subset (40 of the java source code files) but at least
it compiles without errors and
uses .Net Core as suggested by Jasper.
Please find below a copy of the attached README:
****************************************************************************************
Foreword
------------------------------
Here is a 'bud' version for a port of Apache MetaModel from Java to C#
(.Net Core). Please
notice that it is a very limited subset which has neen ported ATM.
Conversion Issues
------------------------------
Even with a limited subset of the java source code files (40), I've
encountered a lot of
conversions issues, from the very straightforward (e.g. 'String s =
input_string.trim()'
becomes 'string s = input_string.Trim()'), to the ""equivalence
required"" (e.g. anonymous
implementation of interface, like in getComparable() method of
BooleanComparator class).
Anyway, I've tried to do my best (even if my choices may reveal
erroneous or even absurd),
at least to compile the 'conversion recipes' that I've crafted on the
way (they are
documented in doc/java2csharp_recipes.txt).
I've also provided a set of 'Helper classes' (under
apache_metamodel_dotnet_core/org/
apache/metamodel/j2cs), like class extensions (e.g. add a GetHashcode()
method to the
C# 'object' class), type replacement (e.g. Java's Number class converted
to 'CsNumber')
, etc..
Here is the result of my 'J2Cs' (Java To C#) adventures until now. In
the hope that it may
bring interest for validation and maybe a "child project" Apache
MetaModel which is a great
and innovative solution for interoperability in the Biotop of Data
Stores, well beyond the
ODBC and ORM solutions IMHO.
Best Regards
Michel Kern (echopraxium on GitHub)
Re: GitHub release: a "bud" of Apache MM to C# (.Net Core)
Posted by Echopraxium <ec...@gmail.com>.
Hi
Thanks for investing time to try the build and give your feedback (FYI I
use Visual Studio Community 2017)
In fact my first approach until now was more 'bottom-up', now I've started
from the 'Top down' perpective by trying to port Json unit test and thus
its connector and thus precisely QueryPostProcessDataContext. Of course
there is a lot of commented out code as I wanted just to run even just a
part of the JsonDataContextTest unit test. The 'comment out' is helpful to
progress and always have a codebase without compile errors.
ATM, I've started porting FileHelper (which raises by itself lots of issues
on IO nuts and and bolts within the Java vs C# mindsets, like Streams and
Readers/Writers) and yes there is a lot of porting issues which are raised
by Java perpective only and vice versa
From a bird eye point of view, I have the feeling that C# is now beyond
Java in terms of VM based OOP languages (especially with .Net Core). I
think I have also more fluency in C# than Java, which is maybe a bias in my
understanding of Java core concepts.
I fully agree with your remark that at this point a Design refactoring is
necessary to go further (my work is more at the code level and thus
embracing much less even missing crucial points of AMM paradigms)
In the hope that my 'bud' raised enough motivation to start an AMM
subproject like you suggested previously
Best Regards
Michel Kern
Le 16 juil. 2017 5:22 AM, "Kasper Sørensen" <i....@gmail.com>
a écrit :
> I notice that there is not yet a port of QueryPostprocessDataContext, which
> is IMO critical to implement any connector. I think having that class (and
> it's dependencies, for instance MetaModelHelper) ported is key for us to
> push ahead with the rest of the details. As such I feel like many of the
> interfaces that are there now can be easily be manually replicated and
> maybe in some cases re-thought a bit for .NET, as well as for the fact that
> there is no backwards compatibility concern in this port.
>
> Interfaces like Func, Action and Ref are certainly not needed in .NET, and
> we should not include it. They're only there in the Java version for
> backwards compatibility to the pre-Java 8 days.
>
> 2017-07-15 10:40 GMT-07:00 Kasper Sørensen <i.am.kasper.sorensen@gmail.com
> >:
>
> > OK so I can tell you this much: I succesfully built the project with
> > "dotnet restore" and "dotnet build". Great work, I see there's a lot of
> > code in here :-)
> >
> > Right now it doesn't contain any working DataContext implementations,
> > right? It would be kinda cool to have at least one so that we can start
> > building unit tests and stuff like that. I'll probably get back to you
> with
> > a PR for some small project structure things so that we have a place to
> add
> > unit tests, a way to add more modules and so on.
> >
> > I haven't done an in-depth review of the code, but for me the most
> > important thing is that there is something we can iterate on and the
> tests
> > and such are instrumental in doing that.
> >
> >
> > 2017-07-09 12:45 GMT-07:00 Michel Kern <ec...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I've just published a "bud" of porting Apache MM from Java to C# (.Net
> >> Core)
> >> It's there: https://github.com/Echopraxium/apache_metamodel_
> dotnet_core_
> >> bud
> >>
> >> It is a limited subset (40 of the java source code files) but at least
> it
> >> compiles without errors and
> >> uses .Net Core as suggested by Jasper.
> >>
> >> Please find below a copy of the attached README:
> >> ************************************************************
> >> ****************************
> >> Foreword
> >> ------------------------------
> >> Here is a 'bud' version for a port of Apache MetaModel from Java to C#
> >> (.Net Core). Please
> >> notice that it is a very limited subset which has neen ported ATM.
> >>
> >> Conversion Issues
> >> ------------------------------
> >> Even with a limited subset of the java source code files (40), I've
> >> encountered a lot of
> >> conversions issues, from the very straightforward (e.g. 'String s =
> >> input_string.trim()'
> >> becomes 'string s = input_string.Trim()'), to the ""equivalence
> >> required"" (e.g. anonymous
> >> implementation of interface, like in getComparable() method of
> >> BooleanComparator class).
> >>
> >> Anyway, I've tried to do my best (even if my choices may reveal
> erroneous
> >> or even absurd),
> >> at least to compile the 'conversion recipes' that I've crafted on the
> way
> >> (they are
> >> documented in doc/java2csharp_recipes.txt).
> >>
> >> I've also provided a set of 'Helper classes' (under
> >> apache_metamodel_dotnet_core/org/
> >> apache/metamodel/j2cs), like class extensions (e.g. add a GetHashcode()
> >> method to the
> >> C# 'object' class), type replacement (e.g. Java's Number class converted
> >> to 'CsNumber')
> >> , etc..
> >>
> >> Here is the result of my 'J2Cs' (Java To C#) adventures until now. In
> the
> >> hope that it may
> >> bring interest for validation and maybe a "child project" Apache
> >> MetaModel which is a great
> >> and innovative solution for interoperability in the Biotop of Data
> >> Stores, well beyond the
> >> ODBC and ORM solutions IMHO.
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >> Michel Kern (echopraxium on GitHub)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
Re: GitHub release: a "bud" of Apache MM to C# (.Net Core)
Posted by Kasper Sørensen <i....@gmail.com>.
I notice that there is not yet a port of QueryPostprocessDataContext, which
is IMO critical to implement any connector. I think having that class (and
it's dependencies, for instance MetaModelHelper) ported is key for us to
push ahead with the rest of the details. As such I feel like many of the
interfaces that are there now can be easily be manually replicated and
maybe in some cases re-thought a bit for .NET, as well as for the fact that
there is no backwards compatibility concern in this port.
Interfaces like Func, Action and Ref are certainly not needed in .NET, and
we should not include it. They're only there in the Java version for
backwards compatibility to the pre-Java 8 days.
2017-07-15 10:40 GMT-07:00 Kasper Sørensen <i....@gmail.com>:
> OK so I can tell you this much: I succesfully built the project with
> "dotnet restore" and "dotnet build". Great work, I see there's a lot of
> code in here :-)
>
> Right now it doesn't contain any working DataContext implementations,
> right? It would be kinda cool to have at least one so that we can start
> building unit tests and stuff like that. I'll probably get back to you with
> a PR for some small project structure things so that we have a place to add
> unit tests, a way to add more modules and so on.
>
> I haven't done an in-depth review of the code, but for me the most
> important thing is that there is something we can iterate on and the tests
> and such are instrumental in doing that.
>
>
> 2017-07-09 12:45 GMT-07:00 Michel Kern <ec...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I've just published a "bud" of porting Apache MM from Java to C# (.Net
>> Core)
>> It's there: https://github.com/Echopraxium/apache_metamodel_dotnet_core_
>> bud
>>
>> It is a limited subset (40 of the java source code files) but at least it
>> compiles without errors and
>> uses .Net Core as suggested by Jasper.
>>
>> Please find below a copy of the attached README:
>> ************************************************************
>> ****************************
>> Foreword
>> ------------------------------
>> Here is a 'bud' version for a port of Apache MetaModel from Java to C#
>> (.Net Core). Please
>> notice that it is a very limited subset which has neen ported ATM.
>>
>> Conversion Issues
>> ------------------------------
>> Even with a limited subset of the java source code files (40), I've
>> encountered a lot of
>> conversions issues, from the very straightforward (e.g. 'String s =
>> input_string.trim()'
>> becomes 'string s = input_string.Trim()'), to the ""equivalence
>> required"" (e.g. anonymous
>> implementation of interface, like in getComparable() method of
>> BooleanComparator class).
>>
>> Anyway, I've tried to do my best (even if my choices may reveal erroneous
>> or even absurd),
>> at least to compile the 'conversion recipes' that I've crafted on the way
>> (they are
>> documented in doc/java2csharp_recipes.txt).
>>
>> I've also provided a set of 'Helper classes' (under
>> apache_metamodel_dotnet_core/org/
>> apache/metamodel/j2cs), like class extensions (e.g. add a GetHashcode()
>> method to the
>> C# 'object' class), type replacement (e.g. Java's Number class converted
>> to 'CsNumber')
>> , etc..
>>
>> Here is the result of my 'J2Cs' (Java To C#) adventures until now. In the
>> hope that it may
>> bring interest for validation and maybe a "child project" Apache
>> MetaModel which is a great
>> and innovative solution for interoperability in the Biotop of Data
>> Stores, well beyond the
>> ODBC and ORM solutions IMHO.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Michel Kern (echopraxium on GitHub)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Re: GitHub release: a "bud" of Apache MM to C# (.Net Core)
Posted by Kasper Sørensen <i....@gmail.com>.
OK so I can tell you this much: I succesfully built the project with
"dotnet restore" and "dotnet build". Great work, I see there's a lot of
code in here :-)
Right now it doesn't contain any working DataContext implementations,
right? It would be kinda cool to have at least one so that we can start
building unit tests and stuff like that. I'll probably get back to you with
a PR for some small project structure things so that we have a place to add
unit tests, a way to add more modules and so on.
I haven't done an in-depth review of the code, but for me the most
important thing is that there is something we can iterate on and the tests
and such are instrumental in doing that.
2017-07-09 12:45 GMT-07:00 Michel Kern <ec...@gmail.com>:
> Hello
>
> I've just published a "bud" of porting Apache MM from Java to C# (.Net
> Core)
> It's there: https://github.com/Echopraxium/apache_metamodel_dotnet_core_
> bud
>
> It is a limited subset (40 of the java source code files) but at least it
> compiles without errors and
> uses .Net Core as suggested by Jasper.
>
> Please find below a copy of the attached README:
> ************************************************************
> ****************************
> Foreword
> ------------------------------
> Here is a 'bud' version for a port of Apache MetaModel from Java to C#
> (.Net Core). Please
> notice that it is a very limited subset which has neen ported ATM.
>
> Conversion Issues
> ------------------------------
> Even with a limited subset of the java source code files (40), I've
> encountered a lot of
> conversions issues, from the very straightforward (e.g. 'String s =
> input_string.trim()'
> becomes 'string s = input_string.Trim()'), to the ""equivalence required""
> (e.g. anonymous
> implementation of interface, like in getComparable() method of
> BooleanComparator class).
>
> Anyway, I've tried to do my best (even if my choices may reveal erroneous
> or even absurd),
> at least to compile the 'conversion recipes' that I've crafted on the way
> (they are
> documented in doc/java2csharp_recipes.txt).
>
> I've also provided a set of 'Helper classes' (under
> apache_metamodel_dotnet_core/org/
> apache/metamodel/j2cs), like class extensions (e.g. add a GetHashcode()
> method to the
> C# 'object' class), type replacement (e.g. Java's Number class converted
> to 'CsNumber')
> , etc..
>
> Here is the result of my 'J2Cs' (Java To C#) adventures until now. In the
> hope that it may
> bring interest for validation and maybe a "child project" Apache MetaModel
> which is a great
> and innovative solution for interoperability in the Biotop of Data Stores,
> well beyond the
> ODBC and ORM solutions IMHO.
>
> Best Regards
> Michel Kern (echopraxium on GitHub)
>
>
>
>