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Einar W. Høst
March 13, 2013
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Programming by Hyperbole
Lightning talk from the Booster 2013 conference.
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March 13, 2013
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Transcript
Programming by Hyperbole Einar W. Høst
Take a small task from work Take a small
but real problem you encounter at work.
Bring it back home where no-‐one can ques@on
your ra@onale.
Apply hyperbole to exaggerate, distort &
bend it.
(Blog about it and put it on github.)
What is hyperbole?
Normal Normal HYPERBOLE NORMAL
Normal You see a string in your program
and you think... NORMAL
Normal “Yup, that’s a string.” NORMAL
“Hey, that’s a string.” HYPERBOLE You see a
string in your program and you think...
“Hey, that’s a string.” HYPERBOLE “I could put
a programming language in there.”
Why?
None
Understanding is limited
Understanding is par@al
Understanding is full of myths and half-‐truths
Understanding is misunderstanding
Understanding is plain wrong
Understanding is not improved at work
Hyperbole helps
Hyperbole by Example
5 + 2 * 3 Actual Business Case
In my HTML form, how can I validate that a DateTime value is between two other DateTime values?
5 + 2 * 3 ASP.NET MVC Model Valida@on
5 + 2 * 3 ASP.NET MVC Model Valida@on
public class User { [ Required ] public string UserName { get; set; } [ Required ] [ MinLength(12) ] public string Password { get; set; } }
5 + 2 * 3 Data Annota@on Validator Adributes
> Required > Range > RegularExpression > MinLength > MaxLength > ...
5 + 2 * 3 Data Annota@on Validator Adributes
> Required > Range > RegularExpression > MinLength > MaxLength > ...
5 + 2 * 3 Data Annota@on Validator Adributes
> Required > Range > RegularExpression > MinLength > MaxLength > ...
5 + 2 * 3 Data Annota@on Validator Adributes
> Remote > Custom
5 + 2 * 3 Data Annota@on Validator Adributes
> Remote > Custom
5 + 2 * 3 Actual Business Solu@on
Custom valida@on to solve a very specific problem.
5 + 2 * 3 Hyperbolic Developer Ques@on
Is there a generic solu@on?
5 + 2 * 3 Hyperbolic Developer Ques@on
What would be the ul@mate approach?
5 + 2 * 3 Hyperbolic Developer Ques@on
Can this be solved once and for all?
5 + 2 * 3 Hyperbolic Developer Ques@on
What is the final word on valida@on?
$ $ Developer Constraint At Work Business
value Time spent
$ $ Developer Constraint At Home
5 + 2 * 3 Custom Valida@on Adribute
[ Custom(........) ]
5 + 2 * 3 Custom Valida@on Adribute
[ Custom(........) ] Severely limited
5 + 2 * 3 Custom Valida@on Adribute
[ Custom(“foo”) ] ...but strings are OK
5 + 2 * 3 Custom Valida@on Adribute
[ Custom(“foo”) ] ...strings are OK?
5 + 2 * 3 Custom Valida@on Adribute
[ Custom(“foo”) ] I could put a programming language in there!
5 + 2 * 3 My Hyperbolic Idea
Create a rule DSL for expressing arbitrary constraints on property values in a LISP-‐like syntax.
5 + 2 * 3 Why?
5 + 2 * 3 Why? Do. Or
do not. There is no why.
5 + 2 * 3 Why? If it
fits, I sits
5 + 2 * 3 Why? > Custom
Valida@on > S-‐expressions > Expression Trees > Func@onal JavaScript > Code Genera@on > Code Interpreta@on Learning opportunity
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) [ Mkay(“(and (> A)
(< B))”) ] Introducing Mkay One valida@on adribute to rule them all
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Mkay expressions >
Constants > Property access > Logical operators > Comparison operators > Simple func@ons
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Example #1 [
Mkay(“>= (max A B)”) ]
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Example #2 [
Mkay(“== (len .) 5”) ]
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Example #3 [
Mkay(“and (> “31.01.2006”) (<= (now))”) ]
Rule AST Cons Cells .NET Expression
Trees JavaScript JSON Server-‐side valida@on Client-‐side valida@on Rule DSL String .NET Func@on JavaScript Func@on
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Mkay Rule DSL
(> . (+ A B C))
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Abstract Syntax Tree
symbol > symbol + symbol . nil symbol A symbol B symbol C nil (> . (+ A B C))
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Expression Tree Member
. Member B Member A Member C Binary + Binary > Binary + (> . (+ A B C))
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) JSON {
"type": "call", "value": ">", "operands": [ { "type": "property", "value": "X" }, { "type": "call", "value": "+", "operands": [ { "type": "property", "value": "A" }, { "type": "property", "value": "B" }, { "type": "property", "value": "C" } ] } ] } (> . (+ A B C))
(+ 5 (* 2 3)) Composed Valida@on Func@on
function() { return greater-‐than-‐function ( read-‐property-‐function("."), plus-‐function( plus-‐function( plus-‐function( 0, read-‐property-‐function("C")), read-‐property-‐function("B")), read-‐property-‐function("A")) ); } Pseudo-‐JavaScript
5 + 2 * 3 Demo
5 + 2 * 3 Demo public class
Person { [ Mkay("(< (len .) 5)", ErrorMessage = "That's too long, my friend.") ] public string Name { get; set; } [ Mkay("(>= . \"31.01.1900\")") ] public DateTime BirthDate { get; set; } [ Mkay("(<= . (now))") ] public DateTime DeathDate { get; set; } [ Mkay("(and (>= . BirthDate) (<= . DeathDate))") ] public DateTime LastSeen { get; set; } }
Demo
BLOG hdp://einarwh.wordpress.com CODE hdp://bitbucket.org/einarwh/mkay DOWNLOAD
hdp://nuget.org/packages/mkay
5 + 2 * 3 HYPERBOLIC HYPERBOLE
5 + 2 * 3 eval
None
“Hey, that’s a string.” HYPERBOLE You see a
string in your program and you think...
“Hey, that’s a string.” HYPERBOLE “I could put
a programming language in there.”
GO ONE LOUDER