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Package component-model-configuration
Short Description Adds the configuration layer to the component model
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Homepage https://github.com/getpop/component-model-configuration
Informations about the package component-model-configuration
Component Model Configuration
Adds the configuration level to the component hierarchy, through which the data API can be extended into an application
Install
Via Composer
Development
The source code is hosted on the GatoGraphQL monorepo, under SiteBuilder/packages/component-model-configuration
.
Usage
Initialize the component:
Architecture Design and Implementation
Configuration
Configuration values are added under functions:
function getImmutableConfiguration($component, &$props)
function getMutableonmodelConfiguration($component, &$props)
function getMutableonrequestConfiguration($component, &$props)
For instance:
Please notice that the configuration receives the $props
parameter, hence it can print configuration values set through props. immutable
and mutable on model
configuration values are initialized through initModelProps
, and mutable on request
ones are initialized through initRequestProps
:
Client-Side Caching
To cache the configuration for all components in the client, and keep them available to be reused, we simply deep merge all the responses together. For instance, if the first request brings this response:
And the second response brings this response:
Then deep merging the responses together will result in:
And we can perfectly reuse the configuration starting from "component1" to reprint the first request, and the configuration starting from "component3" to reprint the second request.
That was easy, however from now on it gets more complicated. What happens if the component's descendants are not static, but can change depending on the context, such as the requested URL or other inputs? For instance, we could have a component "single-post" which changes its descendant component based on the post type of the requested object, choosing between components "layout-post" or "layout-event", so that the component hierarchy alternates from this:
to this:
Similarly, even within the same component hierarchy, a component could have a property value change for different URLs. For instance, a component "post-layout" can have a property "class" with value "post-{id}", where "{id}" is the id of the requested post, so that we can add styles for specific posts such as .post-37 { background-color: red; }
and .post-224 { background-color: green; }
. Then, posts with ids 37 and 224, even though they have the same component hierarchy, their configurations will alternate from this:
to this:
Let's explore what happens in these two situations described above when deep merging the results. In the first case, for instance, if the first request brings this response:
And the second response brings this response:
Then deep merging the responses together will result in:
As it can be seen, after merging the response from the second request, the data that was the same (class: "topcomponent"
) didn't affect the merged object, and the new information was appended to the existing object but without overriding any data. However, originally the first response has "component1" with only "component2" as a descendant, but after the merge, "component1" has two descendants, "component2" and "component3". Then, if loading again the URL for the first response and reusing the cached configuration, below "component1" it will print "component2" and "component3" instead of only "component2" as it should be.
To address this issue, the configuration can add a property "descendants" explicitly declaring which are its subcomponents, to know which components must be rendered and ignore the rest, even though their data is still part of the merged JSON object. Then, the first and second response will look like this:
And the merged configuration will look like this:
But now, the value for property "descendants" in the cached object has been overriden with the value from the second response, bringing us to the second issue stated earlier on about differing property values. Then, if loading again the URL for the first response and reusing the cached configuration, below "component1" it will print "component3" instead of "component2" as it should be.
The issue about differing properties arises from the fact that configuration values are set not only according to the component hierarchy, but also to the requested URL. For instance, the following component hierarchy:
Can produce the following two different configuration outputs:
and
The solution is to deep merge the configurations from different requests without overriding differing properties, either at the component hierarchy or URL levels, is to have the configuration split into 3 separate subsections: "immutable", "mutableonmodel" (where "model" is equivalent to "component hierarchy") and "mutableonrequest". Every property in the configuration must be placed under exactly 1 of the 3 sections, like this:
- immutable: Contains properties which never change, such as
class: "topcomponent"
- mutableonmodel: Contains properties which can change based on the component hierarchy, such as
descendants: ["component2"]
- mutableonrequest: Contains properties which can change based on the requested URL, such as
class: "post-37"
Following this scheme, a first request may produce the following response:
As it can be observed, because the properties from the 3 sections do not overlap, then merging the 3 sections for the request produces the whole configuration once again:
Next, the cache in the client is kept in 3 separate objects, one for each of the subsections, with sections "mutableonmodel" and "mutableonrequest" storing their data under appropriate keys: "mutableonmodel" under a key called "modelInstanceId", which represents a hash of the component hierarchy, and "mutableonrequest" under the requested URL. The request above will then be cached like this (assuming a "modelInstanceId" with value "bwKtq*8H" and URL "/posts/some-post/"):
If then we obtain the response for a second request, the cache is updated like this (assuming a "modelInstanceId" with value "6C7Lu$\3" and URL "/posts/some-event/"):
As it can be observed, "immutable" holds the common parts of the structure, while "mutableonmodel" and "mutableonrequest" hold the deltas. Hence, this scheme identifies common data and stores it only once, and all dissimilar entries are stored and accessible on their own. If most of the configuration doesn't change within the component hierarchy, then the information stored under "immutable" will make the bulk of the stored information, succeeding in minimizing the amount of data that is cached.
Finally, given the "modelInstanceId" and URL for any request we can obtain the 3 separate branches from the 3 sections, and merge them all together to recreate the whole configuration from the cache.
The merging can be done in the server-side too: If there is no need to cache the configuration on the client, then we can avoid the added complexity of dealing with the three subsections by adding parameter dataoutputmode=combined
to the URL.
PHP versions
Requirements:
- PHP 8.1+ for development
- PHP 7.2+ for production
Supported PHP features
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Change log
Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.
Testing
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Static Analysis
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Report issues
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Contributing
We welcome contributions for this package on the GatoGraphQL monorepo (where the source code for this package is hosted).
Please see CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.
Security
If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
Credits
- Leonardo Losoviz
- All Contributors
License
GNU General Public License v2 (or later). Please see License File for more information.