Quickstart eliothing

• eliothing Prerequisites
• Installing eliothing

Nutshell

• eliothing libraries resolve https://schema.org JSONLD into Models based on those schemaTypes.

The ThingBuilder

The ThingBuilder is the basic class we're building.

• ThingBuilder should be constructed by passing in the JSONLD's @graph section.
• schemify method builds the schema into schemaTypes groups.
• modelMiner method resolves the issue of having Fields with 1 or more schemaTypes as Types.
• modelMaker method returns the definition of a single schemaType.
• thing method returns the definition schemaType and all it's parent schemaTypes.

The thing library already encapsulates this functionality and outputs simple JSON objects.

Read the [thing Documentation][] for more details.

mongoose-thing and django-thing inherit from the ThingBuilder and override the thing method to return a definition which can be passed to the MongooseJs or Django.

Creating a new eliothing library

1. Create a new app folder your/repo/elioway/eliothing/thing-inMVCFramework.
2. Create a thing method which returns a Model definition in the MVC Framework of your choice.
3. Get it working.
4. Test it.
5. Document it using chisel.
6. Brand it using generator-art. Tell everyone about it.
7. Use it to do things the elioWay.
8. Push it to the https://gitlab.com/eliothing/ group using twig.