Team. Schoolwork is keeping this college adjunct quite busy. So, the next deliverable might become available around 11.15-30.2020 instead of 10.30.2020. His course load at the on-line university where he teaches has doubled. Plus, he is teaching a couple of "new" courses this term. And, one of these is at a "new" college. "New" courses always has an increased learning curve and require more person-hours. And, "new" work environments always require an adjustments.
The next phase is rather straightforward and many of your likely have completed it already and possibly the entire project. The end is clearly in sight.
For the next phase, we will be parsing the architectural control file and replacing the placeholder in our storyboard template with the name of the appropriate method for replacing its content.
In the final phase, we will invoke that method and replace the placeholder with the string value return from the associated method.
It likely would be wisest if the contents of the architectural control file were parsed and placed in an associative array, dictionary, hash map, or hash table. This would allow for the quick repeated access of associated method names, during the execution of the application. For web-based processing, such a "control" data structure should be placed in a session or application-level variable. As such, time would not be spent reparsing the architectural control language (ACL) file each time a server-side process runs.
These data structures already are available in most of the languages used in this development effort, except for C. And, for the sake of simplicity we likely will not roll our own hash table for this implementation. Most likely, we will simply reparse the file each time that we need a value. This will be highly inefficient, but this is a "proof of concept" prototype.
And, in the "post-final" phase, we might write a switch generator that will read the ACL file and produce a source file with the appropriate hard-coded logic for statically invoking the appropriate methods for the view that we will be returning.
The author's term at a couple of programs ends early, around the week of Thanksgiving in America. This we free up time for working on this project.
