store parser should not depend on gk::model

[karolherbst]

currently the store parsers depend on our game models, so that it will be harder to parse new stuff later. There should be a more generic interface

[karolherbst]

I could think about something like this:

in the store config a new properity: parser.categories which may contain "game" or "game, music"

and later in the file [game] and [music] sections and a parser would automaticall parse all properties of these sections and put everything into a map<string,string>, which can be easily turn into a c++ object in a seperated step

[Jookia]

Thinking about this, does this tie in to the idea of storing properties using a map instead of a model?

[karolherbst]

in the first step, yes. Then we could have converter classes for Class <=> map<string,string> which we could use for databases as well, because they usually work on a string base anyway.

also this would uncouple property <=> object translation from parsing information we get from stores or our database.

[karolherbst]

I don#t find a good way how to declerate stuff if this is implemented, weird things like enums will make the layout of the store config files less intuitiv if we don't find a good layout.

[karolherbst]

I think we should prefer using a yaml or json file format for store config files.

yaml:

store: 
  format: xml
  homepage: http://www.desura.com/
  name: desura

auth:
  http_post:
    loginurl: https://secure.desura.com/3/memberlogin
    logouturl: https://secure.desura.com/1/memberlogout
    fields: [username]
    secrets: [password]
    token:
      type: cookie
      keys: [freeman, masterchief]

models:
  game:
    url: https://secure.desura.com/1/memberdata
    path: /memberdata/games//game
    fields:
      id: "@siteareaid"
      name: name/text()
      description: summary/text()
      homepage: homepage/text()
      platforms: /memberdata/platforms/platform/games/game[@siteareaid=$game.id]/../..

  platform:
    value: "@id"
    mapping: {win32: 100, mac32: 130, lin32: 110, lin64: 120}
    url: https://secure.desura.com/1/memberdata
    path: /memberdata/platforms//platform

json:

{
  "models": {
    "platform": {
      "url": "https://secure.desura.com/1/memberdata", 
      "path": "/memberdata/platforms//platform", 
      "mapping": {
        "win32": 100, 
        "mac32": 130, 
        "lin64": 120, 
        "lin32": 110
      }, 
      "value": "@id"
    }, 
    "game": {
      "url": "https://secure.desura.com/1/memberdata", 
      "path": "/memberdata/games//game", 
      "fields": {
        "platforms": "/memberdata/platforms/platform/games/game[@siteareaid=$game.id]/../..", 
        "homepage": "homepage/text()", 
        "description": "summary/text()", 
        "name": "name/text()", 
        "id": "@siteareaid"
      }
    }
  }, 
  "store": {
    "homepage": "http://www.desura.com/", 
    "name": "desura", 
    "format": "xml"
  }, 
  "auth": {
    "http_post": {
      "secrets": [
        "password"
      ], 
      "fields": [
        "username"
      ], 
      "loginurl": "https://secure.desura.com/3/memberlogin", 
      "logouturl": "https://secure.desura.com/1/memberlogout", 
      "token": {
        "keys": [
          "freeman", 
          "masterchief"
        ], 
        "type": "cookie"
      }
    }
  }
}