Visual Linking of Elements to Model Attributes

• US 20110055744A1
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Gobera Rubalcava, Daniel E., Ryan, Christopher N.
• Application Number:
  US12/550,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055744A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for visual linking of elements to model attributes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of element instances wherein an element instance of a first type in the data stream has an attribute with respective data and another element instance of the first type in the data stream does not have the attribute; creating a data model from the data stream in which all element instances of the first type have the attribute; and presenting an interactive representation of the data model including the attribute in a first region of a user interface (UI) and one or more UI elements in a second region of the UI.

Claims

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of element instances wherein an element instance of a first type in the data stream has an attribute with respective data and another element instance of the first type in the data stream does not have the attribute;

creating a data model from the data stream in which all element instances of the first type have the attribute;

presenting an interactive representation of the data model including the attribute in a first region of a user interface (UI) and one or more UI elements in a second region of the UI;

receiving first input to the UI associating the attribute with a UI element; and

generating a program configured to read a first element instance of the first type from the data stream and present the attribute for the first element instance with a run-time version of the associated UI element.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the data stream has a format of extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the program is further configured to present respective data of the presented attribute.

4. The method of claim 1 creating the data model includes sampling a subset of the element instances in the data stream.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the program is further configured to read a second element instance of the first type from the data stream wherein the second element instance lacks the attribute.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the program is further configured to present a default value for the attribute of the second element with the run-time version of the associated UI element.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first input is a drag-and-drop operation from the first region to the second region.

8. A system comprising:

a computer-readable storage device including a program product;

one or more computing devices configured to interact with the storage device and execute the program product to perform operations comprising;

analyzing a data stream comprising a plurality of element instances wherein an element instance of a first type in the data stream has an attribute with respective data and another element instance of the first type in the data stream does not have the attribute;

determining a model for the data stream based on the analyzing in which all element instances of the first type have the attribute; and

reading a first element instance of the first type from the data stream wherein the first element instance lacks the attribute and providing a default value for the attribute.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the data stream has a format of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

10. The system of claim 8 wherein analyzing the data stream includes sampling a subset of the element instances in the data stream.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein analyzing the data stream includes determining a grammar for data in the data stream and analyzing the data stream based on the determined grammar.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein reading the first element instance from the data stream includes determining whether the first element instance is of the first type based on the model and further determining whether the first element instance lacks any attribute for the first type of element instance.

13. The system of claim 8, further comprising determining a UI element associated with the attribute and presenting the default value using the UI element.

14. A computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of element instances wherein an element instance of a first type in the data stream has an attribute with respective data and another element instance of the first type in the data stream does not have the attribute;

creating a data model from the data stream in which all element instances of the first type have the attribute;

associating the attribute with a UI element; and

generating a program configured to read a first element instance of the first type from the data stream and present the attribute for the first element instance with a run-time version of the associated UI element.

15. The program product of claim 14 wherein the data stream has a format of extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

16. The program product of claim 14 wherein the program is further configured to present respective data of the presented attribute.

17. The program product of claim 14 creating the data model includes sampling a subset of the element instances in the data stream.

18. The program product of claim 14 wherein the program is further configured to read a second element instance of the first type from the data stream wherein the second element instance lacks the attribute.

19. The program product of claim 18 wherein the program is further configured to present a default value for the attribute of the second element with the run-time version of the associated UI element.

20. The program product of claim 14 wherein the first input is a drag-and-drop operation from the first region to the second region.