[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2: Autogeneration of Koha UML diagrams

[Zeno Tajoli]

Hi to all,

>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:24:28AM +0200, Zeno Tajoli wrote:
> > Starting from perl scripts avaible from internet we want to develop a
> > script that read Koha API (C4 dir) and write a .xmi file
> > with an UML rappresentation of classes, methods and usage of methods.
>
>Just some thoughts:
>
>- Objects that exists in the koha code comes from low level libraries
>   used by koha and are just arguments to the functions of the koha API
>   which uses a procedural paradigm.
>- there is no strong separation of the model (as the M in MVC pattern)
>   in the API. so i see no easy way to parse the code to obtain a clean
>   vision of the data structures.
>- even the schema isn't 3NF so you can't automatically distinguish every
>   objects while parsing it.
>
>So if i were your student, i would be a little bit nervous:
>- the work is very hard
>- the result would be

the mission of this task is to have a better documentation of the API.
We will do the best as possible.

Cheers
Zeno Tajoli

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