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Inspiration
The basic concept for this SDK comes from years of web development. A number of
patterns have arisen in that realm of software which enable people to build remote
servers with APIs remarkably quickly and with high stability. The
ABCI application interface is similar to
a web API (DeliverTx is like POST and Query is like GET while SetOption is like
the admin playing with the config file). Here are some patterns that might be
useful:
- MVC - separate data model (storage) from business logic (controllers)
- Routers - easily direct each request to the appropriate controller
- Middleware - a series of wrappers that provide global functionality (like authentication) to all controllers
- Modules (gems, package, etc) - developers can write a self-contained package with a given set of functionality, which can be imported and reused in other apps
Also at play is the concept of different tables/schemas in databases, thus you can keep the different modules safely separated and avoid any accidental (or malicious) overwriting of data.
Not all of these can be compare one-to-one in the blockchain world, but they do provide inspiration for building orthogonal pieces that can easily be combined into various applications.