BigRedProf.Data.PackRatCompiler 0.8.0

BigRedProf.Data

The BigRedProf.Data library is a simple, flexible .NET library for defining and serializing models.

Development

This repository is driven by Task. Provision the required .NET SDK, Task, and PowerShell 7 from the repository root:

# Windows
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\script\bootstrap\windows.ps1

# Ubuntu
bash ./script/bootstrap/ubuntu.sh

The scripts install only missing or incompatible tools, diagnose the resulting environment, and run task verify. See script/bootstrap/README.md for check-only and non-interactive options.

For day-to-day development:

task --list      # see available tasks
task verify      # build + unit tests — everything required before merging
task build       # fast inner loop
task doctor      # toolchain/version diagnostics
task pack        # build the NuGet packages locally

Task loads the layered environment (.env.local then .env) on every invocation, so no shell setup is required — commands work in a fresh process for humans and agents alike. Note the solution lives at src/Data.sln, not at the repository root.

BigRedProf.Data.Core, BigRedProf.Data.PackRatCompiler and BigRedProf.Data.Tape are published to GitHub Packages by CI on a push to main. task pack builds them locally and deliberately cannot push. See script/README.md for the (short) script layer.

Glossary

bit - a discrete binary value; uses the symbols 0 and 1

code - a sequence of one or more bits used to represent something (think cryptographic messages, NOT computer instructions)

model - a software developer's representation of a domain object

packing - the act of turning a model into a code (think serialization)

unpacking - the act of turning a code into a model (think deserialization)

pack rat - the actor responsible packing and unpacking a specific model

pied piper - the actor who organizes all the pack rats (consider creating a singleton pied piper in your startup code if you're using dependency injection)

flex model - a flexible model composed of one or more models called traits; the advantage of the flex model is that clients don't need to understand its full schema to work with it--they can use the traits they understand and ignore the rest

trait - a model and its purpose (eg: "My name is Memorial Stadium." or "My location is Lincoln, Nebraska.")

token - a small code representing a larger model (think the heap address of a reference type or the foreign key of a database row)

tokenized model - a model that's packed as its token value rather than as its full value

tokenizer - a mapping of tokens to models and models to tokens; can be hard-coded if known at compile-time or dynamically loaded at runtime

License

BigRedProf.Data is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

For questions, suggestions, or issues, please contact Professor at BigRedProf@outlook.com.