User:DatabaseBot
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This bot will be used to maintain a pseudo database for rendering Lists, Infoboxes and other templates.
MVC[edit]
This bot is a fan of model–view–controller (MVC) architecture and believes data should be separated from its control and view. For those unfamiliar with the MVC architecture the following gives a brief description as it applies to this particular implementation:
- Model - This contains some data you might want to display. This would be held in some sort of data structure or database.
- View - This displays data to an end user. This would be the HTML page given to a user in our case.
- Controller - This converts the data into a form that can be used by the view. In our case, this would be a template such as infobox or listbox.
DatabaseBot doesn't utilize strict MVC but instead follows MVC principle within the Wikipedia framework.
Visitor Pattern[edit]
This bot utilizes the Visitor Pattern in its databases. This model allows rendering logic to be injected into a data structure. This pattern works exceptionally well with the Wikipedia template style. Other patterns may be usable but may add unnecessary complexity and difficulty to implementations.
- Data structure (Model): A template with the following form.
{{ {{{visiting template}}} | data_name_1 = data_value_1 | ... | data_name_N = data_value_N }}
- Visitor (controller) : A Template that uses some data:
... "Template text" {{{data_name_x}}} "template text"...
- Usage (view): The following tag can be used to display the above members in a page:
{{ Datastructure | Visitor }}
Example Usage[edit]
Model example
Page:User:DatabaseBot/Data:Example
Page Contains:
{{ {{{1}}} | data1 = somedata1 | data2 = somedata2 | randomdata = adfdsfasdf }}
Control example
Page1:User:DatabaseBot/Template:ExampleTemplate1
example1:
Your data is {{{data1}}} your randomdata is {{{randomdata}}}. I do not display data2.
Page:User:DatabaseBot/Template:ExampleTemplate2
example2: This templates does display data2. Here it is {{{data2}}}.
View example
Example1 code:
{{User:DatabaseBot/Data:Example | User:DatabaseBot/Template:ExampleTemplate1 }}
Example1 View: Your data is somedata1 your randomdata is adfdsfasdf. I do not display data2.
Example1 code:
{{User:DatabaseBot/Data:Example | User:DatabaseBot/Template:ExampleTemplate1 }}
Example1 View: This templates does display data2. Here it is somedata2.
Example #2[edit]
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 The Qt designer used for GUI designing | |
| Developer(s) | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.5
/ March 3, 2009 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Widget toolkit |
| License | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
| Website | qtsoftware.com/ |
| Name | Developer | Latest release version | latest release date | programming language | operating system | genre | license | website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |
| Qt | Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech) | 4.5 | March 3, 2009 | C++ | Cross-platform | Widget toolkit | GNU LGPL GNU GPL with Qt special exception Q Public License Proprietary |
qtsoftware.com/ |