Composable application session parameters

• US 9,529,572 B1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Suliman, Marwan, Ganesan, Ramkumar, Totale, Sachin G., Thiruvasagam, Rajakumar, Ansari, Saif Ali
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Ted T
• Application Number:
  US14/136,342
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 717106-121
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

Developer-composed custom application session parameters are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition of a custom application session parameter is received via a software development tool user interface. Application code to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application parameter available across a plurality of application user interface pages, is generated programmatically based at least in part on the definition.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, via a software development tool user interface, a definition of a custom application session parameter, wherein the custom application session parameter corresponds to an application session parameter that is developer-composed in connection with development of an application to run on a server, and wherein the definition of the custom application session parameter includes at least a field indicating a lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter; and

generating programmatically, using a processor, based at least in part on the definition of the custom application session parameter, an application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application session parameter available from a first application user interface page to one or more other application user interface pages based at least in part on evaluating an expression associated with an event payload of the first application user interface page to determine a value of the custom application session parameter,

wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter includes code configured to create, at a client system with which a remote user of the application being run on the server is associated, an instance of an application session parameter manager, wherein the instance of the application session parameter manager is configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter based at least in part on the field indicating the lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application session parameter manager comprises a JavaScript or other software object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the application code is configured to be executed in a runtime environment.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter is configured to use a local data store associated with the runtime environment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the application session parameter is stored in a local data store associated with a browser used to execute the application code.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the definition includes a default value for the application session parameter.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the default value comprises the expression.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter is configured to evaluate the expression at runtime to determine a value for the custom application session parameter.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the expression includes as an argument an application context data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein evaluating the expression includes determining at runtime a value of the application context data.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an indication that an application session with which an instance of the custom application session parameter is associated is ending;

determining that a value of the instance of the custom application session parameter is to be stored beyond the end of the application session; and

storing the value of the instance of the custom application session parameter in a persistent data store.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the definition of the custom application session parameter includes fields respectively corresponding to an indication of a session parameter type and a session parameter default value.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the field indicating the lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter indicates whether the custom application session parameter is stored persistently so as to be available beyond expiration of an application session.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the application session parameter manager updates the value of the custom application session parameter based at least in part on a context of at least one of the one or more other application user interface pages.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the application code is further configured to, in response to the remote user logging into the application, establish an application session associated with the remote user, and initialize the custom application session parameter based at least in part on context data stored in a context data cache.

16. A system, comprising:

a data storage device; and

a processor coupled to the data storage device and configured to;

receive, via a software development tool user interface, and store in the data storage device a definition of a custom application session parameter, wherein the custom application session parameter corresponds to an application session parameter that is developer-composed in connection with development of an application to run on a server, and wherein the definition of the custom application session parameter includes at least a field indicating a lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter; and

generate programmatically, based at least in part on the definition of the custom application session parameter, an application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application session parameter available from a first application user interface page to one or more other application user interface pages based at least in part on evaluating an expression associated with an event of the first application user interface page to determine a value of the custom application session parameter,

wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter includes code configured to create, at a client system with which a remote user of the application being run on the server is associated, an instance of an application session parameter manager, wherein the instance of the application session parameter manager is configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter based at least in part on the field indicating the lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the data storage device comprises a memory device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter is configured to use a local data store associated with a runtime environment.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the application session parameter is stored in a local data store associated with a browser used to execute the application code.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the definition includes a default value for the application session parameter.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the default value comprises the expression.

22. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving, via a software development tool user interface, a definition of a custom application session parameter, wherein the custom application session parameter corresponds to an application session parameter that is developer-composed in connection with development of an application to run on a server, and wherein the definition of the custom application session parameter includes at least a field indicating a lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter; and

generating programmatically, based at least in part on the definition of the custom application session parameter, an application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application session parameter available from a first application user interface page to one or more other application user interface pages based at least in part on evaluating an expression associated with an event payload of the first application user interface page to determine a value of the custom application session parameter,

wherein the application code configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter includes code configured to create, at a client system with which a remote user of the application being run on the server is associated, an instance of an application session parameter manager, wherein the instance of the application session parameter manager is configured to store and manage the custom application session parameter based at least in part on the field indicating the lifetime associated with the custom application session parameter.