Documentation:MDriven Movie Theatre Part 1

As everyone can relate to the theatre that run shows, in this session of MDriven we learn how to create movie theater example to show the abilities of JavaScript and Angular things. In this patriticular video would like to show you how to do a seat reservation actions.

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Setting the Movie Theatre Diagram

Adding Show Seats and Seat Request State Machine Organizing diagrams with colors Creating "Manage" View Models

Uploading and Running the example application Adding movie image to the View Model Adding a method to create show seats Organizing Seat Request Setting the ability to browse the shows Server side View Model action

Setting the Movie Theatre Diagram

The seat reservation problem is quite common and of course we need the seats, which are part of the theatre, but also available for a specific show. That one has multiple seats and the seat has multiple shows as well. We are going to add a state machine to the ticket order show seat stating if it's free or not, we also need a user that actually gonna reserve the tickets. To be able to process the seat request on the server, we are going to model a state diagram for it. I want to do it on the server to make sure that we don't get any over bookings or two people reserve the same seat. One of the state's request processes will actually going to be executed on the server and as a result could be granted or declined.

Organizing model with colors

We are going to make the server executed request red, so we know that's special. In the situations when we have to manage the information like this, usually need all the data organized by coloring it. When we color it, it's more of if they belong together or if they have the same life span. So theater and seats are quite stationary, but show and show seats are not as stationary as theater and seat. Movies and seat request are something different from the other two aspects. So try to keep this theme, when setting colors to the model, it helps the eye to know what goes together and how things match up.

Theatre management View Models

To get start the application we need to add a new diagram to detailed definitions of theaters, shows and movies

Normally, it is to much work just get in a position, where you can actually start doing the cool stuff that requested of you, but with MDriven we try to minimize it. It's always a lot of details, when managing information more than anyone really care to think about, but MDriven keeps track of it all to make you efficient. View Models, of course, there is a few, quite a few simple View Models

that needs to be in place, to manage the basic data, that we need to have and also

the actions to bring those View Models up, need to manage theaters and need

to be able to create a theater and name it and things like that

the shows of course, need to manage those, as well so in the end I wanted to be a small application,

where there is a basic data that we need is managed by the generated View Model UI, but the things

that actually gonna meet the user in the end, should be, we should spend a little

more time on that and do that by hand, so to speak

of course, whenever you start a new project you go through a process of learning the

data you need and at least for me it's always, that I think it's not a big

problem in the beginning and as I start to work on it and and fold it out for

myself it always tend to be a lot more things, that came to mind from the start

of course this is both good and bad, I need to do this, to to be in a

position to actually deliver, what the client wants the problem is I probably

didn't explain thoroughly enough to the client, how much work it would be,

luckily, when I have driven as my tool, it's still manageable just go through the motions

and do these things, ok here I found something when I

submitted it to the server, it said, it was an SQL error I had attribute called row

and that was apparently reserved word

in sql server, so I changed that attribute and submitted it, so now

I'm running my application and register as a new user and starting out my UI

creating a theater 1

I'm gonna call it rigoletto that's one here in Stockholm, I'm gonna call another one Sergel, that's another one in Stockholm

and manage movies, I need to create some movies Die Hard, of course, always die hard,the martian

saw this yesterday was really good, I recommend it, anyway

alright, so we have theaters and movies and what about shows, ok, we gonna can set up

shows for martian today and another one for die hard for today, on the Rigoletto theater

We didn't see the movie image, when we create the show, I wanna see the image

make that readonly

uploading the model again, this is really the loop that I go through, when I develop

over and over

back and forth between running the application and changing the model

of course, I could be smarter and think ahead a lot and do all the things

that I need up front, that's not me, I don't know if it's you, it's ok if it's you, you can do it

that way, it's a mix I guess some things is quite hard to see, unless

you're up close actually suffering from the lack of definition or the lack of data

create some seats as well and of course this is boring as hell,

but it's done once per theater, these are the seats that define, what's possible for the

future just do two rows with four seats in each, alright, so that's the show seat

that we need to create now, I'm gonna add a method on show to create a show seats

gonna grab all the seats from the theater and collect over those for the

collection I'm gonna follow self from seat, gonna add each seat from the theater and

that will create a show seat for me

ok, so now I have the method I need to call that method and the ViewModel

that managed shows I guess

method is there, no problem, ok name it to create shows seats, I guess I should have

called that ticket, but rush into write and I'm gonnna show the show seats, if there are any

By the way I'm using a new microphone, that I bought just for these occasions, so I hope you appreciate the sound

and I'm going to show the state and the row the state is remember if it's free or not

so upload model and head back to application

manage the show, create show seats, then we have our seats,and the seats are free, right

I created both for the Martian and for Die Hard

now for the seats seat request, let's create another diagram to detail things there

We have the SysUser of course, the logged in user, user buys couple of tickets

show seats, could be many, of course and we have the state machine, what I want to do

now is buy ticket view and this is actually the one that we are gonna replace later on

but we're not there yet, we need to figure out, what data it contains first and

this is really one of the great things being able to declaratively just move ahead

to get all data out there to see if our thoughts are clear, if we are done

with a model or not, it's much better to find out limitations in our model

at this stage, then later on when we have loads of runtime check

JavaScript in the browser somewhere, so thinking this through isn't that hard by ticket we need

to see the time the tickets are for the theater and the movie, so I know where to

go, what to see and when to be there, that's important information

for the guy buying the tickets, I'm going to add a movie image as well, just because I can

let's listall the seats, let's link object and we follow the inner links to seat row

so, now we list of all the available seats, free or not, we don't really care

at this point we show all seats

gonna do another View Model just to browse the shows, so that we get a way in to get to the buy ticket

just as before going through the motions finding simple expressions

to show me what I need

adding an action to bring this View Model up and

varifying that, I can select seats and clear them and then I can submit requests

submit requests, what should happen then, that's the servier side action

I have been talking about, so new diagram for this, the seat request

we are going to create a new ViewModel servers I'd check requests and we gonna make

available for server-side execute sear request all instances, where state is

request process every five seconds, every five seconds this will execute and

execute what, all the actions in the View Model take the seats in this case, what it does

is check if all the seats are free

it sets the state to sold and this is all gonna pen out like this, I find a show I want to see

find seats I want to use, of course there's no multiselect I was forget and I add the tickets

these are the ones I want, then I tell the system I'm done selecting and the process server side

to avoid collisions and it says you got tickets

tickets have been updated to sold and my name is on them,great that's the server side view model action for you

so this is the data that we gonna replace with a new view

getting rather late and this video has run for 20 minutes thank you very much

for following this, so far and I'll be back with a take on the view that

just is in a better way than just lists and checkboxes, ok thank you very much till next time