Description

AIRport allows Distributed Applications to interoperate by providing an API framework on top of a relational database. Data is stored in virual Repositories with one Transaction Log per repository.

More documentation can be found at Beyond Decentralized.

How it works

• User navigates to a web page and saves/retrieves data.
• A new tab is opened in the background with AIRport framework in it
• AIRport contacts Transaction Log data hosts (Ex: IPFS), retrieves data, puts into in-memory SqLite database, queries it, makes modifications to it, writes the Transaction Log entries back to data hosts.
• Access to database is allowed only from App logic that runs in domain-sanboxed IFrames (inside AIRport tab).

Build instructions

If something isn't building and it really should, run 'rush update'

Check out AIRroot for framework build instructions.

Entity Definitions

@Entity()
export class Parent extends AirEntity {

    value: string;

    total: number;

    @OneToMany({mappedBy: 'parent'})
    children: Child[];
}

@Entity()
export class Child extends AirEntity {

    value: string;

    @ManyToOne()
    parent: Parent;
}

Queries

Apps can define entities which depend on entities in other Apps, via @ManyToOne() relations. Apps can build joins that include entities from other Apps.

Data Access Objects (DAOs)

@Injected()
export class ParentDao 
       extends BaseParentDao {

    async findById(
      parentUuId: string
    ): Promise<Parent> {
      let p: QParent,
          c: QChild
      return await this._findOne({
        SELECT: {
          '*': Y,
      	  children: {}
        },
        FROM: [
          p = this.qSchema.Parent,
          c  = p.children.LEFT_JOIN()
        ],
        WHERE: p.equals(parentUuId)
      })
    }

    async updateInPlace(
        parent: Parent
    ): Promise<void> {
        const p: QParent
        await this._updateWhere({
            UPDATE: p = this.qSchema.Parent,
            SET: {
                total: PLUS(p.total, 1)
            },
            WHERE: p.equals(parent)
        })
    }

}

APIs

Public API methods are annotated with @Api() decorator. Apps can invoke @Api() methods of other Apps. Apps can join across application schemas but must call APIs of other Apps to modify their data.

@Injected()
export class ParentApi {

    @Inject()
    parentDao: ParentDao

    @Api()
    async save(
      parent: Parent
    ): Promise<void> {
      await this.parentDao.save(parent)
    }

    @Api()
    async findById(
      parentUuId: string
    ): Promise<Parent> {
      return await this.parentDao.findById(parentUuId)
    }

}

Directory Structure

ORMs Object Relational Mapping frameworks.

apis Internal and external APIs.

databases Database adapters.

engines Core Logic of AIRport.

generators Code generators.

libs Libraries.

platforms Platform adaptors for Web and Native.

schemas Internal AIRport schemas.

Latest

Find out about the latest developments at the Beyond Decentralized blog

License

AIRport is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT