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Overview

First of all, we advise you to read these two articles in order to have an overview of the platform and to understand the main concepts we are going to use, including types, facades and services.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Main concepts
    • The main concepts that help to understand the general design of Akwatype

 

Main menu and home page

The main features of Akwatype are accessible from the main menu which is always visible on the left of the screen.

The quickstart menu on the home page provides access to more options, including :

  • Data editor
  • Data explorer
  • Flow Editor
  • FlowExplorer
  • Knowledge base
  • Model settings

 

 

The Akwatype knowledge base

The Akwatype knowledge base is always available with the icon at the bottom right of the screen.

The articles describe how to use the application and every possibility of the description language with code examples.

A good way to explore the knowledge base is to use the akwatype exploration map where each node in the mindmap points to an entry in the knowledge base

 

  • Note:  Akwatype uses Google tag manager to manage the link to the knowledge base.
    If the icon does not appear, check that you are not using an anti-tracker that prevents the connection to Google tag manager. If this is the case, it is necessary to authorize this connection to benefit from the knowledge base integrated in the application.
  • Note : The cookie consent mechanism is also dependent on the proper functioning of Google tag manager

 

One page memo

 

How to get model Example

To begin with it is interesting to be able to manipulate existing descriptions.

Akwatype allows you to import examples into your project to better understand how to use Akwatype's capabilities

 

The description editor

All descriptions (Data and services) are realized with the Akwatype modeling language. This declarative and very expressive language (influenced by GraphQL) is fully supported by the code editor to facilitate its use (real time compilation, syntax highlighting, completion,...) .

 

Describe and graphically explore the Data model

Akwatype's goal is to place data modeling at the heart of API and message design.

The type model, and its declination in facades, constitute the base of this modeling.

 

Describe and graphically explore services and data exchanges

Akwatype allows to describe the services that expose and consume the data described in the data model.

These descriptions are used to generate API descriptions in OpenAPI format and to graphically explore the exchange model

  • Where and how to describe my services
    • Organization and mains functions of the services editing module
  • Where and how to graphically explore my services and data exchanges
    • Organization and mains functions of the Services and Data Exchange Explorer
      • Graphics: Exchanges, Service focus, Topics and messages focus,

        Service cooperation, Route and Messages sequence

  • Services and data exchanges description
    • Describe services and synchronous / asynchronous data exchanges (API and Event/message)
    • What is a service and how to describe it, resources, routes, topics, messages, properties, custom properties, URL parameters, responses, requests, send and receive messages, consume routes, servers, brokers ...
    • Fill in examples and use the examples from the data model
  • How to consume routes and send / receive messages
    • The consumption of routes by other services and the transmission and reception of messages enable the relationships between services to be described.
      • For messages, Akwatype simulates a publish/subscribe mechanism to deduce links between services based on the publication and consumption of messages.
    • These relationships form the basis on which the flow charts are generated (services cooperation, Sequence diagram, etc.).
  • Manage API security
    • Define and apply security schemes

Generation and extractions

Versionning

 

Model modularization and packages