A ThingBuilder class converts https://schema.org (and other jsonld formats) into simple JSON definitions of Models.
Two reasons to love this thing:
ThingBuilder is the first step to preparing Model classes
and modules for databases and MVC projects like Django, Mongoose, etc.
thing CLI is brilliant for writing out thinglets, Things or lists of Things.
npm i @elioway/thing
# Default: print a thinglet to screen
thing
# print a thinglet to screen
thing --thinglet
# print an Action thinglet
thing Action
# print an Thing schema
thing --schema
# include SchemaOrg comments to your schema
thing --schema --comments
# change the depth to which ThingBuilder will seek "typed" relationships
thing --schema --depth 2
# write any result into this folder.
thing --write "./myThings/"
# list all the subtypes of Thing
thing --list
# list all the subtypes of Action
thing Action --list
thing delivers a JSON object with the meta data your need to autogenerate Models for frameworks like Django, Mongoose and GraphL. The package is a Map with a key matching the "ThingType" you are asking for, plus keys to any other ThingTypes referenced by your Thing.
For instance, the npm run thing MoveAction --depth 1 command
returns:
{
"MoveAction": {
"name": {
"type": "String"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/Thing`
"Action": {
"endTime": {
"type": "Time"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/Action`
},
"MoveAction": {
"toLocation": {
"type": "Text"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/MoveAction`
}
},
"Thing": {
"name": {
"type": "String"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/Thing`
},
"Action": {
"name": {
"type": "String"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/Thing`
"Action": {
"endTime": {
"type": "Time"
},
// ... + all the other Fields for `schema.org/Action`
}
}
}