System and method of analysis and generation of navigation schema
The invention proposes a simpler and more efficient method for building a navigation schema in a cloud service broker platform (CSB) that builds a complex user interface (UI) from the CSB platform to an integrated connector application. The present disclosure automates navigation schema generation by obtaining a connector package, transforming a navigation schema therein from a hierarchical form to a plain form, and creating a modified schema for such. The present disclosure further discloses a method for creating a navigation schema template according to chosen placeholders and helps a user to fill in the template, and further check the created schema.
1. A method for analysis of navigation schema, comprising:
receiving a transformation request to transform a hierarchical navigation schema to a plain schema;
in response to receiving the transformation request, receiving a navigation schema;
initializing a plurality of navigation elements, the each of the navigation elements having a variable context associated therewith;
saving the each of the variable context for each of the plurality of navigation elements to a map;
moving the each of the plurality of navigation elements to a plain navigation schema; and
integrating the each of the plurality of navigation elements to a root placeholder.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of placing the context variables of the each of the plurality of navigation elements in the plain navigation schema.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of checking if the map is empty.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
creating an empty navigation schema; showing an available list of platform placeholders;
inserting schema templates into the empty navigation schema to create a generated schema; and
analyzing the generated schema.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein creating the generated schema further comprises:
inserting at least one level menu;
inserting at least a view or wizard corresponding to the at least one level menu; and
requesting labels and constructing variables for the each of the variable context.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising the step of publishing the connector package to a service database.
7. A method of generation of a navigation schema, the method comprising:
receiving a transformation request to transform a hierarchical navigation schema to a plain schema;
creating, at a navigation schema analyzer, an empty navigation schema, using a navigation object model;
retrieving a corresponding schema template from a template library and inserting the corresponding schema template into the empty navigation schema;
generating, at the navigation schema analyzer, a generated schema comprising at least one navigation element selected from a group consisting of a menu level, a view, a wizard, and a label;
analyzing, at the navigation schema analyzer, the generated schema; and
completing, at the navigation schema analyzer, a connector package based at least in part on the generated schema, and publishing the connector package to a service database.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the at least one navigation further comprises at least one variable for the each at least one navigation element selected.