5 bexis extensibility

BEXIS Tech Talk Series

#5: BExIS Extensibility

Javad ChamanaraPresented at BExIS Developers Conference

June 2016Germany

BEXIS Tech Talk #5: BExIS Extensibility 2

Reminder: What is BExIS

• Requirements– Data Lifecycle Management– Generic– Extensible– Portable– Scalable

More details on the BExIS Requirements

http://bexis2.uni-jena.de/bexis-2-tech-talk-series/


Reminder: Core Concepts

DataMetadata

Data StructureMetadata Structure Semantics Geo

Administration Security

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More details on the Conceptual Model

http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/bppCM/index.htm


Reminder: Architecture

DB2 PgS

Data Access

Security

Core Functions

UI

UI Framework

...M

odularity

Integration

Synthesis Work

Semantic Search

Analytics

User Defined

Spatial Querying

External Tools

Web Services

Archiving

Import/ Export

Publishing

More details on the Architecture

http://bexis2.uni-jena.de/bexis-2-tech-talk-series/


Extensibility Aspects

• Module Development: Is the mechanism to add functionality to BExIS– Support for specific data formats– Data Analysis and Visualization– Geographical Search– Resource Booking– Semantic Search



• Integration: Data/service exchange between BExIS and other systems.– Publishing datasets in external repositories– Allowing access to datasets for analysis– Acquiring PIDs– …



• Branding: Is a way to position BExIS in a user community on behalf of a customer– Logo, Icons– Themes, colors, – Text, graphics,– …


Shell

• Layouts– Arrangement– Content

• Themes• Menus


Shell: Layout


Shell: Themes


Shell: Menus

• Registered by Modules• Integrated into Shell• Some are fixed


Module Development

• A module is a set of related user facing functions, operating from inside the BExIS Shell


Components of a Module

• UI• Services• Data Access


Module: UI


Module: UI: Area Registration


Module: UI: Layout selection

• <Module>/Views/_ViewStart.cshtml


Module: UI: Menu

• Fixed areas• Limited # of Levels• Registration in _Menus.chhtml– Areas/site/views/Nav


Module: Configuration

• Each module has it own– Web.config– Workspace• Config folder


Module: Configuration

• Each module has it own– Data folder


Module: Data

• Seed Data:– The data needed by module to start working.– It can be immutable or modifiable


Module: Libraries


Branding

• Who needs to re-brand BExIS– Tenants: The customers who install and own BExIS

• What can be re-branded– Appearance– Documents– Functionalities


Sample Tenants: BExIS


Sample Tenants: iDiv


Branding: Functionalities


Mechanics of Branding

• The Branding package


Inside the Package


Package’s Manifest file


Resolution Mechanism

• Tenant Resolution– Single tenant: in web.config– Multi tenants: by matching rules

• Name Resolution– Resolved tenant– Fallback tenant, otherwise

• Resource Resolution– Resolved tenant– Fallback tenant– Application predefined resources


Branding: Management


Integration (Interoperability)

• Data/Service– Offering– Consumption

• Interaction Method– Push– Pull

• Current: Offering pull based services


Integration: Services

• Authentication/Authorization• Dataset• Schema of a dataset• Metadata of a Dataset• Selected Variables of a Datasets• Selected Tuples of a Dataset


APIs

• Access Method– Web based– HTTP– REST

• Output format– CSV– JSON– XML

• Example– rBExIS package for R


Sample Web API calls: Data

• http://www.name.com/api/data• http://www.name.com/api/data/6– /api/data/6?header=id,name– /api/data/6?filter=(Grade>50 AND Grade <90)– /api/data/6?header=id,name&filter=(Grade>50)

http://www.name.com/api/data

http://www.name.com/api/data/6


Sample Web API calls: Data Structure

• http://www.name.com/api/structures/6• http://www.name.com/api/metadata/6

http://www.name.com/api/structures/6

http://www.name.com/api/structures/6

http://www.name.com/api/metadata/6



Sample Web API calls: Metadata

• http://www.name.com/api/metadata• http://www.name.com/api/metadata/6• http://

www.name.com/api/metadata/6?ConvertTo=EML





http://www.name.com/api/metadata/6?ConvertTo=EML





Outlook

Whats next in the talk series?

UI Structure and Web APIDetailed developer view


Thanks!Questions?

Contact:[email protected]://bexis2.uni-jena.de

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