Runtime class database operation

• US 8,037,039 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Pather, Shyamalan, Reed, Jeffrey E., Derstadt, Jeffrey Michael, Conrad, Andrew J., Perry, Carl Yates
• Primary Examiner(s): Channavajjala; Srirama
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hosseini; Reza
• Application Number:
  US11/838,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20080263078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,519 Days
• Field of Search: 707/694, 707/735, 707/756, 707/778, 707/781, 707/791, 707/795, 707/802, 707/803, 707/805, 707/829
• US Class Current: 707/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing

Abstract

Programmers typically like operating with databases through use of classes. Classes allow a user to function with a database through use of a non-database programming language. To ease use of the classes, a class context is generated at runtime that does not force a programmer to handle various source files that are a product of class generation. Therefore, the user can have the ease of using classes without having to perform extra actions.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory having computer executable components stored thereon; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the computer executable components, the computer executable components comprising;

a reception component configured to obtain entity data derived from information stored in a database, wherein the reception component is further configured to obtain the entity data from an auxiliary location; and

a generation component configured to produce at least one general class based on the entity data at runtime, the generation component further configured to produce a context class at runtime based on the at least one general class and at least one property requested by an external entity via a native programming language, wherein the context class provides the at least one property requested by the external entity, and wherein the context class facilitates-operating against the database in the native programming language.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a definition component configured to compose at least one rule utilized in production of the at least one general class.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a chain component configured to link at least two rules together for use in production of the at least one general class.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an order component configured to place at least one rule in a sequence, wherein the generation component is further configured to access at least one rule for production of the at least one general class in accordance with the sequence.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence component configured to make at least one of an inference or a determination in relation to an operation of the generation component.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a workspace component configured to create a shell that can hold at least one entity based on received entity data.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a build component configured to regulate control of the generation component.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a query component configured to execute logic in production of the at least of at least one general class.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the generation component is configured to facilitate an automatic processing of source code.

10. A method, comprising:

employing a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement the following acts;

constructing at least one general class from at least one map file that relates to a database, at least one name service, logic, or a combination thereof;

creating a context class at runtime based on the at least one general class and at least one property requested by an external entity via a native programming language, wherein the context class facilitates an interaction between the database and the external entity in the native programming language by providing the at least one property requested by the external entity; and

homogenizing at least one name included in the database.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving the at least one map file for constructing the at least one general class from an auxiliary location.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating a map file for constructing the at least one general class based on database information.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising operating a query upon the database, wherein a result of the query is used in generation of a map file.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising attempting to locate at least one pre-existing class with a name that complements the at least one general class.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising finding at least one function of a pre-existing class with a name that matches at least one property name associated with the at least one general class.

16. A computer-readable storage medium, comprising:

computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions including instructions for causing at least one processor to perform the following acts;

receiving commands from an external entity for manipulation of at least one rule employed in production of at least one general class;

collecting logic that regulates generation of a context class at runtime based on the at least one general class generated at runtime and at least one property requested by the external entity via a native programming language; and

implementing the logic into the context class, wherein the context class provides a runtime programming interface between a database operating with a database programming language and the external entity operating with the native programming language, and wherein the programming interface provides the at least one property requested by the external entity and facilitates applying at least one program in the native programming language to the database based on the logic.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising replacing the logic with a different logic created by the external entity.