METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA MASHUP IN COMMENTING LAYER
Disclosed is a method and system for receiving an instruction for data mashup in a commenting layer, generating a list of fields in the commenting layer available for the data mashup, receiving a user selection for a first field from the list of fields, determining a data provider to provide a first data of the first field, obtaining the first data from the data provider, determining an aggregation function for the first data and a second data of a second field in the commenting layer and generating an aggregated data in the commenting layer by performing a data mashup operation on the first field and the second field based on the aggregation function.
1 . A computer implemented method for data mashup in a commenting layer, comprising:
receiving an instruction for data mashup in a commenting layer;
generating a list of fields in the commenting layer available for the data mashup;
receiving a user selection for a first field from the list of fields;
determining a data provider to provide a first data of the first field;
obtaining the first data from the data provider;
determining an aggregation function for the first data and a second data of a second field in the commenting layer; and
generating an aggregated data in the commenting layer by performing a data mashup operation on the first field and the second field based on the aggregation function.
2 . The method in claim 1 , further comprising generating a user interface to display the aggregated data.
3 . The method in claim 1 , wherein determining a data provider to provide a first data comprises identifying a business object to which the first field belongs.
4 . The method in claim 1 , wherein the data mashup operation comprises an operation selected from a group consisting of inserting, deleting, and modifying the first field.
5 . The method in claim 1 further comprising analyzing the first data for correctness based on business logic.
6 . The method in claim 1 , wherein the aggregation function comprises a function selected from a group consisting of a sum, a difference, a multiplication, a quotient, a median, an average, a standard deviation, a variance, a maximum, a minimum and a user defined aggregation.
7 . The method in claim 6 , wherein the aggregation function is provided by the commenting layer for selection.
8 . The method in claim 1 , wherein the first data comprises data input by a user in the commenting layer.
9 . The method in claim 8 further comprising analyzing the user input first data for correctness based on business logic
10 . The method in claim 1 , wherein the first data comprises data obtained by the data provider from an application.
11 . The method in claim 1 , wherein the data provider comprises a web service.
12 . The method in claim 1 further comprising obtaining business logic from an application through a web service.
13 . A computer system including a processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions that are executable by the processor, the instructions comprising:
a commenting layer to receive an instruction for data mashup;
a field identifier in communication with the commenting layer to receive a user selection of a first field for the data mashup;
a data provider in communication with the field identifier to obtain a first data of the first field;
an aggregation unit in communication with the data provider to perform an aggregation function for the first data and a second data of a second field in the commenting layer; and
a presentation layer in communication with the commenting layer to display an aggregated data.
14 . The system in claim 13 , wherein the data provider comprises a web service in communication with an application.
15 . The system in claim 14 further comprising a web service client in communication with the web service to obtain data from an application.
16 . The system in claim 15 , wherein the web service client communicates with the web service over a communication network via hyper text transfer protocol.
17 . An article of manufacture, comprising:
a machine readable medium having instructions which when executed by a machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an instruction for data mashup in a commenting layer;
generating a list of fields in the commenting layer available for the data mashup;
receiving a user selection for a first field from the list of fields;
determining a data provider to provide a first data of the first field;
obtaining the first data from the data provider;
determining an aggregation function for the first data and a second data of a second field in the commenting layer; and
generating an aggregated data in the commenting layer by performing a data mashup operation on the first field and the second field based on the aggregation function.
18 . The article of manufacture in claim 17 , wherein the machine readable medium further comprises instructions to identify a business object to which the first field belongs.
19 . The article of manufacture in claim 17 , wherein the machine readable medium further comprises instructions to analyze the first data for correctness based on business logic.
20 . The article of manufacture in claim 17 , wherein the machine readable medium further comprises instructions to obtain business logic from an application.