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I am in the design phase of an app that will have a component like DropBox.
There's doesn't seem to be much info on their overall architecture. I'm guessing it's not much more than a folder watcher calling a WCF or MVC service.
Any reason I should not follow that model?
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I'm pretty sure it uses a shell extension to implement the Drop Box folder. Shell Extensions are no laughing matter because they can be complicated.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hi i am planning to design a cloud storage service using design patterns and uml
I identified following use cases
user signup
user sign in
manage folders like update delete edit share etc
upgrade account
sync data
manage profile
etc
i identified following classes
User class
account class
profile class
drive class etc
so now to extend further i want to know what all design patterns like factory pattern , observer pattern , decorator pattern can be used in designing this google drive.
can anybody help me in sending a class diagram for cloud drive
Thanks
karth
modified 27-Mar-15 14:50pm.
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Member 11524998 wrote: i want to know what all design patterns like factory pattern , observer pattern , decorator pattern can be used in designing this
You don't (read: shouldn't!) use design patterns for the sake of using design patterns.
Member 11524998 wrote: can anybody help me in sending a class diagram for google drive
I don't think anybody but Google will have that.
No offense intended but your question strongly indicates that this kind of project is some orders of magnitude beyond your current skill set. I would recommend you to start a bit smaller.
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He is looking for help with his college project.
He won't be doing something like this for any other reason.
That is also why he is asking what design patterns he should be using. The instructor told him to use as many as possible!
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Vivic wrote: That is also why he is asking what design patterns he should be using. The instructor told him to use as many as possible!
I would recommend making sure there wasn't a misunderstanding. If the instructor said "use design patterns wherever reasonable" it would make sense.
Vivic wrote: He is looking for help with his college project.
Wouldn't you consider asking for a ready made class diagram cheating? To me it looks like a pretty big and important part of his project.
I would find it more reasonable if he already had designed something and would ask for feedback on that.
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Sascha Lefévre wrote: Wouldn't you consider asking for a ready made class diagram cheating?
Yes.
Sascha Lefévre wrote: if he already had designed something and would ask for feedback on that.
The scope of a real application wouldn't be presentable at the level posted by the OP here.
Conversely the content of the OP is something would expect to see as something like a major project in a college level course.
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Check out the guy's location: India.
Definitely a college project.
Send codez plz! Urgent! 
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Hi, im new to "via internet communication". I have an experience in VB.Net application development and some embedded device like arduino and raspberry pi. I just want to learn how can i transfer data from my .net application to my embedded device. What i have done before,
1.i registered for free web hosting that support PHP and SQL database.
2. wrote PHP code that will receive data from .net application and store the data to sql database.
3.develop my .net application that will parse the data to the PHP in the webserver.
4. write code for my embedded device, where it will retrieve the data that has been stored in the SQL database.
by doing this, it looks like my application is "talking" to my embedded device. So i would like know, is there any smarter way i can achieve my objective?
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It largely depends on what interfaces you have available at your embedded device. If it can connect to your PC by serial or USB, then you have serial communication. If by Bluetooth/WiFi/network then you could have socket connection.
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Can you define "smarter"? Does that mean sending less bits, keeping the connection open for a shorter time, what?
If your communication is message-based, then yes, http would be a nice protocol. It is well defined, documented and tested. If you need to stream, I'd go for a simple socket.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Introduction
For a project i'm working on, i have to find a good way to store what actor information's are known to another actor. And it's starting to get a bit over my head.
Model-Classes
EntityModel - Base class for all entities
using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
namespace Relink.Data.Model {
[Serializable]
public class EntityModel {
[XmlIgnore]
public Int32 EntityID {
get;
set;
}
#region XML Wrapper
[XmlElement("EntityID")]
public String XmlEntityID {
get {
return this.EntityID.ToString();
}
set {
try {
this.EntityID = (Int32)Int32.Parse(value);
} catch {
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
}
#endregion
}
}
ActorModel - Base class for all actor's
using Relink.Data.Enum;
using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
namespace Relink.Data.Model {
[Serializable]
public class ActorModel : EntityModel {
public String Firstname {
get;
set;
}
public String Lastname {
get;
set;
}
public String Nickname {
get;
set;
}
[XmlIgnore]
public Gender Gender {
get;
set;
}
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime Birthday {
get;
set;
}
public String Emailadress {
get;
set;
}
public String City {
get;
set;
}
public String Country {
get;
set;
}
#region XML Wrapper
[XmlElement("Gender")]
public String XmlGender {
get {
return this.Gender.ToString();
}
set {
try {
this.Gender = (Gender)System.Enum.Parse(typeof(Gender), value);
} catch {
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
}
[XmlElement("Birthday")]
public String XmlBirthday {
get {
return this.Birthday.ToString();
}
set {
try {
this.Birthday = DateTime.Parse(value);
} catch {
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
}
#endregion
}
}
Description
Basically i need to store what information's each actor has about another actor, similar to a boiled down facebook. The problem is, this has to scale for a couple hundred actors at once, i.e. this could get out of hand pretty fast.
Question
Is there a decent way to accomplish something like that, or do i have to boil the whole idea down a bit and make it just a "who know's who" sort of thing?
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Are the shown ActorModel's properties the information in question? If yes, exclusively? If not, what else?
- Sebastian
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The properties within the EntityModel and ActorModel are the information's in question. Derived from from the ActorModel are several Classes with additional information, but for "simplicity" I've omitted those children classes.
I've thought of converting those properties to classes and include a List inside that store the EntityID of actors who know this specific information, but i'm not sure how this will work out on a larger scale.
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Since the amount of access-restricted elements (properties in this case) is restricted and known at design-time it shouldn't be overly complex. In the database you could represent it as a table with the EntityIDs of the property-owning Actor and property-accessing Actor as a compound primary key and boolean "is-Property-Access-allowed" columns. Outside the database you could map that to a dictionary with a Tuple<PropertyOwningActorEntityID, PropertyAccessingActorEntityID> as key (I would subclass the Tuple-class though and map the "Item1" and "Item2" properties to more expressively named properties). Could that be a solution for you?
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Well, it really looks like that the database approach is the right thing to do and since i'm very familiar with databases, it shouldn't be a problem to adapt the code to that.
Thank you.
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I don't have any experience with EF; but it looks like it is going to be serialized to XML?
A couple of hundred records would be very easy with a database. You'd simlpy have an Actors table, and a table that links an actor to multiple others.
Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack) wrote: public String XmlBirthday
If it is a data, then pass it as a date, and not as a formatted string.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Hmm, a database never has come into my mind, but would be good solution. Have to think about it and let it cook in my head for a while.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack) wrote: public String XmlBirthday
If it is a data, then pass it as a date, and not as a formatted string.
That's in there to avoid problems with XML deserialization.
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If I was going to implement a "who knows who", I would use a "relationship" entity.
Conceptually, this would like: [Actor]<--->>[Relationship]<<--->[Actor]
The "relationship" entity could include "intersection" data describing the relationship: e.g. father-son; brother-sister; etc.
Physically, this is implemented as a recursive database structure:
|--->[Actor]--->>[Relationship]---|
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|---------------------------------|
For example:
Actors
------
ID: 1; Name: Joe
ID: 2; Name: Jane
ID: 3; Name: Billy
ID: 4; Name: Sue
Relationships (ID1; ID2; RelationDesc1; RelationDesc2 ...):
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1; 2; Husband; Wife
1; 3; Father; Son
3; 4; Brother; Sister
etc.
ID1 and ID2 are foreign keys (which could be concatenated to create a unique "relationship" key; or one could use a separate ID but then one would need to insure there are no duplicate relationships).
The rest is "intersection data" (i.e. it only has meaning in the context of a relationship).
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That's actually i pretty good idea, since the initial idea will probably be dropped because it will get to complicated in the context of the game.
Your solution is very simple, but allows for RelationshipType access. I.e. husband and wife probably know everything about each other, where a colleague probably just knows the name and maybe the birthday.
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Something I forgot to mention...
The implementation of a relationship that I suggested above (i.e. [1; 2; Husband; Wife]) using a single record, is somewhat asymmetric.
Although a little bit more work to implement, but more symmetrical (and therefore easier to query), is to implement a "bi-directional" relationship using 2 records; e.g.
Actors
------
ID: 1; Name: Joe
ID: 2; Name: Jane
Relationships
-------------
From ID: 1; To ID: 2; Intersection Data: Husband; Wife
From ID: 2: To ID: 1; Intersection Data: Wife; Husband
Both records should have an identifier that would identify them as being part of the same relationship; that is, Husband-Wife and Wife-Husband. This make it easier to maintain in the future (update; delete).
Conceptually, you now have:
[Actor]<---\ /--->[Actor]
| \ / |
| X |
| / \ |
[Wife]-----/ \---[Husband]
And physically:
[Actor]--->>[Relationships]
(It's been a while for me, but this is in fact how IBM's IMS-DB implemented bi-directional relationships).
On the other hand, you could "explode" the single relationship record into 2 records at "run-time" using SQL; if that was easier (probably).
modified 5-Mar-15 5:37am.
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Thanks for the hint, but i solved this already 
The model stores both actor id's separately, i just have to check if valueA or valueB contains the id of the current actor. A specific id for the relation entry is not required.
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Just an update for those who are reading along:
I've ditched the database approach, for user maintainability. Everything will be stored within a zip file, that can easily be manipulated by the user and if they crew things up, they can use a backup that is generated alongside the main file.
The performance could be a problem though, but I'll probably use a onetime load anyway, so the only concern could be memory usage, but that's a problem that could be fixed if it occurs.
Greetings Daniel
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For the generation of primary keys in n-Tier applications I only ever see two strategies: Either client-side generation of a GUID or a temporary Integer that gets replaced by the DAL and the DAL reports back to the client the value that was actually assigned.
My alternative idea is to let the client request 1..n new primary key value(s) from the DAL whenever it needs one/some. This way I wouldn't have to cope with ugly GUID's (I don't plan for DB-merge-ability) and I avoid awkward client-logic for replacing temporary primary keys.
Have I simply not yet found some projects that do it this way or is there some flaw in that strategy that I'm not aware of?
- Sebastian
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I'd say this would highly depend on the philosophy of the DAL. For example why would you need to generate temporary primary keys. Let it be empty until a value is returned from the database.
If the referential information isn't seen from the object hierarchy and you need a value for foreign keys until they are actually created, why not use HashCode in such situations. Even better, the object could return the hashcode as a primary key until the actual primary key is generated in the databsae.
In all cases I'd always let the database generate the surrogate key value, never the DAL layer.
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