Friday, December 17, 2004

Developing Using Sample Data

I find it much easier to look at a table of data to figure out how to process it then to just look at the schema and write your code. In the appwiki, all services are required to not only expose their inputs and outputs, but to provide a sample for all outputs. So in dev mode, the appwiki tool can not only generate a call, but record the sequence of the user's manipulation of sample data to generate code. For example, I can just browse to your appwiki which outputs a table of people sorted on First Name. I turn on recording, click on Last Name to sort on it, turn off recording. Then I get an appwiki that's the same as yours but is sorted on Last Name.

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