Multi-language Component Management for Cross-Language Reuse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current infrastructure-as-code (IaC) services limit the ability to reuse components authored in different programming languages, requiring users to reimplement similar components, which is inefficient and restricts the use of open resources.
Innovation Solution
A multi-language component management system that allows users to create and deploy reusable components across various supported languages, enabling the reuse of components authored in one language within programs written in different languages by generating output properties and recursively constructing dependent resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If components are authored in specific programming languages with current IaC services, then language-specific functionality is achieved, but cross-language reusability is lost requiring reimplemention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a language-agnostic component format as an intermediary representation. Components are translated from various programming languages into this standardized intermediate format, which preserves the component's structure, resources, and dependencies while being language-neutral. This intermediary enables components to be reused across different programming languages without reimplemention, resolving the contradiction between language-specific functionality and cross-language reusability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the language parameter of components by providing translation capabilities between multiple programming languages and the intermediate format. Components can be authored in any supported language, translated to the intermediate format, and then instantiated in different languages. This parameter transformation enables cross-language reusability while maintaining the original language-specific authoring preferences, thereby improving component reuse efficiency without sacrificing language versatility.
2Reliability
If components with complex resource dependencies are created, then functional completeness is improved, but construction complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments complex components into hierarchical levels: the component itself, its child components, and the resources they depend on. The system recursively processes components at each level, translating and instantiating them separately while maintaining their relationships. This segmentation allows the system to manage complex resource dependencies systematically, ensuring functional completeness is achieved through proper dependency resolution without overwhelming construction complexity at any single level.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary translation of components to the intermediate format before instantiation in the target language. During this preliminary phase, the component's structure, resources, and dependencies are analyzed and prepared. This advance preparation ensures that when the component is instantiated, all dependencies are already resolved and organized, maintaining functional completeness while reducing the complexity of the actual construction process.
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AI summary
A multi-language component management system allows users to create and reuse reusable components in various supported languages for a desired state configuration system. The system manages creation and construction of reusable multi-language components. The system may receive a request to create an instance of a component in a first configuration language. The request may include input parameters for creating the instance. The component may be authored in a second configuration language different from the first configuration language and may include resources such as child components that depend on the component. The system may generate output properties containing information for generating the plurality of resources. The system may recursively construct the child components that depend on the component, which may in turn result in construction of additional resources. In response to the dependency of the component is resolved, the system outputs a set of completely resolved output properties.