Kris Borchers kborchers

Persistence API - draft 0.1

This is a initial proposal on having a very simple persistence layer

Requirements

Enable data to be created/saved/persisted/queryied/removed to/from the server side in a consistent manner without no matter the data format expected by the server

References

API feature inspiration
http://amplifyjs.com/

At this year's JBossWorld Keynote, one of the things we wanted to show was the extension of business logic and business rules into the mobile landscape. The premise of the demo was to have a mobile shopping cart app that the sales team of our fictitious company could use to purchase electronics and swag for their customers. Rules were put into place based on the dollar amount of the order placed which would then trigger one or more approvals which would need to happen before the order was placed.

The app was first built as a mobile web app using a combination of jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js. jQuery Mobile provided the structure of the app giving it a mobile-friendly layout and set of controls. Backbone.js was used to provide a clean way to handle data modeling and synchronization, presentation of that data through jQuery Mobile enhanced views as well as the app's URL based routing. Once the app was a full-featured web app, we used Apache Cordova to wrap it up as a native app that could be installed on iOS,

Persistence API - draft 0.1

This is a initial proposal on having a very simple persistence layer

Requirements

Persist data on local storage as a type of buffer
Enable data to be created/saved/persisted/queryied/removed to/from the server side

References

http://amplifyjs.com/

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	from /Users/krisborchers/git-repo/awestruct/lib/awestruct/handlers/asciidoc_handler.rb:51:in `rendered_content'
	from /Users/krisborchers/git-repo/awestruct/lib/awestruct/handlers/layout_handler.rb:48:in `rendered_content'
	from /Users/krisborchers/git-repo/awestruct/lib/awestruct/page.rb:127:in `rendered_content'
	from /Users/krisborchers/git-repo/awestruct/lib/awestruct/engine.rb:225:in `generate_page'
	from /Users/krisborchers/git-repo/awestruct/lib/awestruct/engine.rb:213:in `generate_output'

	$.mockjax({
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	data: {
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	/* Need to add license, description, etc. */

	// This will be broken into its own file to be reused
	(function( window, undefined ) {
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	};
	})( this );

	// AeroGear Pipeline

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="../../../../styles/myapp.css">
	<body>
	<div data-field=header></div>
	<div data-field=customerForm></div>
	<div data-field=footer></div>
	</body>

	<div data-field=customerform class=customerform>
	<label for=name>Your name:</label>


	jQuery.noConflict();
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