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Metadata by handSometimes you can’t generate Breeze metadata on the server or don’t want to do so. This topic explains how to write the metadata yourself on the client in JavaScript. It’s not hardWe know it seems daunting at first, especially if you’ve seen the server response from a metadata request. Perhaps you’ve examined the output from entityManager. ExportMetadata or rooted around a MetadataStore in the debugger.What you’re seeing is a representation of metadata meant for a machine not for a human. While it’s sort of readable in JSON, no one would want to write that and we don’t expect you to write that.We’ll show you how authoring metadata with the Breeze Labs Metadata-Helper can be easy and intuitive.Why use Metadata-Helper?Breeze has. This API affords great control over every detail of metadata definition.
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Breeze ships with a default temporary key generator, breeze. This is perfectly adequate for most models. But occasionally a legacy model comes along with unique key generation requirements. Fortunately, you can create a custom key generator and register it with an EntityManager before adding entities to that manager. Make sure your generator can create unique keys for any entity type that needs a temporary key value. Serial Key Generator is application specially designed for software developers to help protect your applications by serial key registration. Just in a few clicks you are able to generate serial.
You should learn it.We recognize that it can seem a tad verbose and fussy. Sometimes you wish for something that was a bit friendlier and forgiving. That’s why we offer the Breeze Labs Metadata-Helper.The Metadata-Helper is a domain-specific language (DSL) that strives to minimize the information you have to provide when writing Breeze metadata. It relies on common conventions to make good guesses about the details of your model’s types, properties and associations. If it guesses incorrectly about a particular point (or can’t guess at all), you can configure that specific point explicitly using the core metadata API.The Breeze Labs MetadataHelper extension is defined in breeze.metadata-helper.js.
And install it on your page after loading breeze.It is also available as: Install-Package Breeze.Metadata.HelperIn this topic, we’ll concentrate on using the Metadata-Helper when it gets it right which is most of the time.The related topic, delves into the details of how the helper works, how you can intervene, and how it all relates to the underlying metadata schema that Breeze uses at runtime. Visit that page when you’re ready if you have to. Show meThe following simple example queries the github API for the members of the AngularJS team. The API developers didn’t know about breeze and the API doesn’t conform to OData. The response from a request for is an array of simple JSON objects with no type information.We can’t change the github server to suit Breeze.
If we want Breeze to treat these objects as cached entities, we’ll have to create their metadata on the client which we do in the dataservice service defined in the script.js file. Check out the README.md file for more details.This sample only works with modern browsers (IE10+, FF, Chrome). Go deeperLet’s look at the JavaScript metadata for the “Code Camper” model from John Papa’s Plural Sight course, “”. The ModelThe model has five entity types:. Session - a talk delivered at a code camp or a technical conference.
Person - a person who attends the code camp. Room - where the talk is delivered.
TimeSlot - session time slots in the conference schedule with start and duration. Track - a conference track such as “JavaScript”, “Data”, “Cloud”, “Mobile”These entities are related. A Session has a Room, TimeSlot, Track, and a Speaker (a Person who delivers the talk). You should be able to write session. Room, session. Track, session.
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Speaker, etc.A Speaker may give more than one talk so the Person type has a collection of one or more Sessions which you access by writing person. What you writeHere is the metadata you might write to describe that model.This code extract comes from a. See related tests in.You see these tests.
Feel free to explore these metadata further by adding your own tests right there in plunker.Remember to install and enable the Breeze Labs.
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