From RAD to MVC
Arnaud Bouchez
June 2015
From RAD to MVC
RAD
MVC
MVVM
n-Tier / SOA
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Rapid Application Development
Our beloved Delphi
WYSIWYG
Quick prototyping
Less typing
Component-based
Ownership to handle memory
Reusability
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Rapid Application Development
Big Ball of Mud
Mixes User Interface and logic
Mixes UI, logic and database
Modules did not help
Difficult to maintain and evolve
Manual testing
Platform specific (web application?)
Fat clients (SaaS?)
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Rapid Application Development
To be fair
Bad programmers write bad code;
Good programmers write good code.
RAD lets bad programmers write bad code faster;
RAD does NOT cause good programmers to
suddenly start writing badly.
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Architecture pattern which:
Isolates “Domain Logic”
Applicationlogic for the end-user
Business logic e.g. for data persistence
From “User Interface”
Input and presentation
Permitting
independent
development, testing and maintenance of each
Separation of concerns
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Model What it is
Manages the behavior of the data
View What it looks like
Renders the model for interaction
Controller What it does
Receives User inputs
Instructs the Model and View
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
The Model
Contains all business logic
Contains data for the application
Often linked to a database or REST
Contains state of the application
e.g. what orders a customer has
Notifies the View of state changes
If needed, e.g. not for stateless views
No knowledge of user interfaces
So it can be reused
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
The View
Generates the user interface
which presents data to the user
Passive (doesn’t do any processing)
Many views can use
the same model for different reasons
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
The Controller
Receives events from the outside world
Usually through views
Interactswith the model
Displays the appropriate view to the user
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
MVC Process
Use
Model
Notify updates
Controller Refresh
Command View
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
MVC, MVVM, MVCVM
MVVM and MVCVM
Even more uncoupled
For better testing
The ViewModel
May (or not) replace the controller
Expose data and command objects for the view
Eases two-way communication
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
MVVM, MVCVM
Model
Holds the actual data
(various context, store or other methods)
View
Displays a certain shape of data
Has no idea where the data comes from
ViewModel
Holds a certain shape of data and commands
Does not know where the data, or code, comes from or how it is displayed
Is re-usable for several views
Controller
Listens for, and publishes, events
Provides the logic to display the data
Provides the command code to the ViewModel
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
MVVM
MVVM Process
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
MVVM in Delphi
LiveBindings
Effective since XE3
DSharp
Convention-Over-Configuration interfaces
MGM pattern used in hcOPF
Mediator component to bind the UI at design time
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
MVC and n-Tier / SOA
Client 1 (Delphi) Client 2 (AJAX)
Presentation Tier View
Presentation Tier Presentation Tier
Application Server
Application Tier Controller Application Tier
Business Logic Tier Model Business Logic Tier
DB Server
Data Tier
Data Tier
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
From RAD to MVC
June 2015
