Mechanism for facilitating customized data overriding for software programs in an on-demand services environment

• US 8,869,114 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2011
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Agarwal, Saurabh
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Marina
• Application Number:
  US13/299,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20130024841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating customized overriding of data for maintenance of software applications in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes duplicating first data of a first data set into a second data that is placed in a second data set. The first data relates to a software application at a computing device. The method may further include amending a portion of the second data at the second data set. The amended portion of the second data corresponds to an unchanged portion of the first data. The method may further include facilitating running of the software application based on the first data while referring to the amended portion of the second data and ignoring the corresponding unchanged portion of the first data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

duplicating a first portion of a first data set relating to a software application at a computing device into a second portion that is placed within a second data set;

amending a second portion to represent a modification to be made to the software application without having to modify the first data set;

facilitating running of the software application based on the first data set until the first portion is reached; and

performing customized overriding of the first portion by the amended second portion, wherein customized overriding includes

ignoring the first portion of the first data set upon detecting the first portion,

referring, in run-time, the amended second portion of the second data set upon reaching the first portion during the running of the software application, wherein referring is performed to implement, in run-time, the modification to the software application, and

reverting back to the first data set after the amended second portion has been referenced and the modification has been implemented.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising holding the amended second portion until the first portion is reached during the running of the software application, wherein the amended second portion corresponds to and remains in communication with the first portion via one or more hash maps.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning priority to the amended second portion over the corresponding first portion such that the amended second portion overrides the first portion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises one or more of mobile computing devices, personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld computer, an e-reader, a tablet computer, a notebook, a netbook, a desktop computer, a server computer, a cluster-based computer, and a set-top box.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising referring back to other portions of the first data set to continue to run the software application based on the first data set upon modifying the software application.

6. A system comprising:

a computing device having a memory to store instructions, and a processing device to execute the instructions to facilitate a mechanism to perform one or more operations comprising;

duplicating a first portion of a first data set relating to a software application at a computing device into a second portion that is placed within a second data set;

amending a second portion to represent a modification to be made to the software application without having to modify the first data set;

facilitating running of the software application based on the first data set until the first portion is reached; and

performing customized overriding of the first portion by the amended second portion, wherein customized overriding includes

ignoring the first portion of the first data set upon detecting the first portion,

referring, in run-time, the amended second portion of the second data set upon reaching the first portion during the running of the software application, wherein referring is performed to implement, in run-time, the modification to the software application, and

reverting back to the first data set after the amended second portion has been referenced and the modification has been implemented.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more operations comprise holding the amended second portion until the first portion is reached during the running of the software application, wherein the amended second portion corresponds to and remains in communication with the first portion via one or more hash maps.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more operations comprise assigning priority to the amended second portion over the corresponding first portion such that the amended second portion overrides the first portion.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the computing device comprises one or more of mobile computing devices, personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld computer, an e-reader, a tablet computer, a notebook, a netbook, a desktop computer, a server computer, a cluster-based computer, and a set-top box.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more operations comprise referring back to other portions of the first data set to continue to run the software application based on the first data set upon modifying the software application.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform one or more operations comprising:

duplicating a first portion of a first data set relating to a software application at a computing device into a second portion that is placed within a second data set;

amending a second portion to represent a modification to be made to the software application without having to modify the first data set;

facilitating running of the software application based on the first data set until the first portion is reached; and

performing customized overriding of the first portion by the amended second portion, wherein customized overriding includes

ignoring the first portion of the first data set upon detecting the first portion,

referring, in run-time, the amended second portion of the second data set upon reaching the first portion during the running of the software application, wherein referring is performed to implement, in run-time, the modification to the software application, and

reverting back to the first data set after the amended second portion has been referenced and the modification has been implemented.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more operations comprise holding the amended second portion until the first portion is reached during the running of the software application, wherein the amended second portion corresponds to and remains in communication with the first portion via one or more hash maps.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more operations comprise assigning priority to the amended second portion over the corresponding first portion such that the amended second portion overrides the first portion.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the computing device comprises one or more of mobile computing devices, personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld computer, an e-reader, a tablet computer, a notebook, a netbook, a desktop computer, a server computer, a cluster-based computer, and a set-top box.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more operations comprise referring back to other portions of the first data set to continue to run the software application based on the first data set upon modifying the software application.