WEB APPLICATION FRAMEWORK

• US 20150067473A1
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores Texas LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Inventors: Tuteja, Bhupesh, Kamble, Abhay Maruti, Khanchi, Amit
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,424 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226

Abstract

The present disclosure extends to organizing content and logic for business processes and information technology infrastructure and facilitating collaborative content creation. Embodiments comprise an extensible web application framework having a presentation tier configurable during runtime and dynamically configurable external services for implementation of business rules. Implementations of the present disclosure may integrate with virtually any external content management system. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be deployed as a model-view-controller (“MVC”) framework pattern.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of dynamically extracting context associated with a web request, comprising:

at a context analyzer layer, receiving a web request context, wherein the web request context comprises a coded expression;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression contains a property name;

if the coded expression contains a property name, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of the property name at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression starts with a request parameter attribute;

if the coded expression starts with a request parameter attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a parameter name at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression starts with a request cookie attribute;

if the coded expression starts with a request cookie attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a cookie name at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression starts with request attribute;

if the coded expression starts with request attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of an attribute name at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression starts with a request header attribute;

if the coded expression starts with a request header attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a header name attribute at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the coded expression starts with a context attribute;

if the coded expression starts with a context attribute, attempting to identify a context analyzer name class and replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a context key of the context analyzer name class at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, invoking the context key of the context analyzer name class;

at the context analyzer layer, determining if the context analyzer name class is not identified or if the value of the context key is not specified;

if the context analyzer name class is not identified or if the value of the context key is not specified, throwing an invalid configuration exception.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at a data analyzer module, parsing a web page definition containing a tree structure of modules.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

at the data analyzer module, receiving a request context from the context analyzer layer.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at a configuration collector layer, receiving a web page configuration.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising

at the configuration collector layer, parsing the web page configuration into at least one page component.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising

at a data collector layer, parsing a page component and

at the data collector layer, invoking a data source call corresponding to the page component.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising

at a model builder layer, preparing a page model;

at a view resolver layer, mapping between a view name of a page component and a view in a presentation tier; and

at the presentation tier, rendering the page component.

8. A web application framework system, comprising:

a context analyzer layer comprising;

a request context module adapted to receive a web request context and

a context parser module;

wherein the context parser module is adapted to;

receive the web request context, wherein the web request context comprises a coded expression;

determine if the coded expression contains a property name;

replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of the property name at the context analyzer layer;

determine if the coded expression starts with a request parameter attribute;

replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a parameter name at the context analyzer layer;

determine if the coded expression starts with a request cookie attribute

replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a cookie name at the context analyzer layer;

determine if the coded expression starts with request attribute

replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of an attribute name at the context analyzer layer;

determine if the coded expression starts with a request header attribute

replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a header name attribute at the context analyzer layer;

determine if the coded expression starts with a context attribute;

attempt to identify a context analyzer name class and replace at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a context key of the context analyzer name class at the context analyzer layer; and

if the context analyzer name class is not identified or if the value of the context key is not specified, throw an invalid configuration exception.

9. The web application framework system of claim 8, further comprising a configuration collector layer adapted to:

interface with a CMS framework and

parse a page component and pass a page configuration to a data collector layer.

10. The web application framework system of claim 8, further comprising a data collector layer comprising:

a data analyzer module adapted to process a requested decision and

a data collector module.

11. The web application framework system of claim 10, further comprising a model builder layer adapted to prepare a model from data received from the data collector module and from a page component.

12. The web application framework system of claim 8, further comprising a presentation tier adapted to render a page file and transmit the page file for display at a user computing device.

13. A computer-implemented method of dynamically extracting context associated with a web request, comprising:

at a context analyzer layer, receiving a web request context, wherein the web request context comprises a coded expression;

if the coded expression contains a property name, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of the property name at the context analyzer layer;

if the coded expression starts with a request parameter attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a parameter name at the context analyzer layer;

if the coded expression starts with a request cookie attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a cookie name at the context analyzer layer;

if the coded expression starts with request attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of an attribute name at the context analyzer layer;

if the coded expression starts with a request header attribute, replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a header name attribute at the context analyzer layer;

if the coded expression starts with a context attribute, attempting to identify a context analyzer name class and replacing at least a part of the coded expression with a value of a context key of the context analyzer name class at the context analyzer layer;

at the context analyzer layer, invoking the context key of the context analyzer name class;

if the context analyzer name class is not identified or if the value of the context key is not specified, throwing an invalid configuration exception.