README.md

TURBOBUILDER

An experimental 80's inspired data entry and retrieval tool.

Current state

EXPERIMENTAL - use with caution. There are many features still missing for TURBOBUILDER to be fully usable.

Declarative Application Development

TURBOBUILDER is a declarative, model-driven, single-user application generator. TURBOBUILDER generates simple data management applications using a declarative entity model. The model is currently read from a text file - but the plan is to use TURBOBUILDER itself to define it.

But why??!

I started experimenting with building C projects using Tup, then things went out of hand.

Model Language

The model language supports the following capabilities:

• Entities (tables) definition
• Fields (columns) definition (basic types: string, integer, real, date)
• 1-M (one-to-many) entity relations
• Simple calculated fields (transient)
• Basic i18n using labels translation definitions.

Sample

App = application {
    title: "SAMPLE"
}

Employee = entity {
    Id = field { type: string; size: 10; listed: true; }
    FirstName = field { type: string; size: 16; listed: true; }
    LastName = field { type: string; size: 16; listed: true; }
}

Company = entity {
    Name = field { type: string; size: 20; listed: true; }
    Employees = relation { ref: Employee.Id; }
}

English = translation {
    Id = "Employee Id";
    Company = "Employer";
}