Application Data Model¶

Each application requires a different data structure and kitsune understands it. Hence one can define their own structure, and kitsune would create the optimal database architecture corresponding to it.

A schema is basically made of classes and its properties. Kitsune comes with basic data types number, string, image, link, bool. One can create custom data types too in their schema and kitsune will work using the schema.

You can create your own schema using the language editor present in the kitsune IDE.

Basic syntax that should be followed while creating the schema:

1. The name of the classes and their properties can only have alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and underscore (_).
2. Don't keep the name of the class and object same.

Example DataModel¶

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coffeeshop
{
    string name
    string description
    string facebook
    string twitter
    contact contactperson
    blog blogpost[]
    testimonial review
    featured special[]
    menu section[]
    location address
}
contact
{
    number primaryno
    number fax
}
blog
{
    string title
    image blogimage
    kstring description
}
featured
{
    string name
    string description
    string price
    string discount
}
testimonial
{
    string name
    string description
}
menu
{
    string header
    products product[]
}
products
{
    string name
    string price
}
location
{
    string address1
    string address2
    string country
    string city
    string state
    string pincode
}

Here coffeeshop is the base class which has properties like name, description, email, location, blog, menu etc. Which is the basic information about the business.

Now if you will see address is an object of the location class, which consists of some more properties like city, state, country etc.

section is an object of the menu class which is an array, as there will be multiple sections in a menu and the products class (object product) has properties name, price, description, currencycode, image etc. in the menu class

Similarly blogpost is an object of the blog class, which again has properties title and description, where description has data type kstring.