TW201732626A - Method and device for acquiring application resource - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a device for acquiring an application resource, relating to the technical field of Internet, being used to solve problems of the high cost of development and upgrading of the application system, the high cost of interaction between the client and the server, the low efficiency of development and upgrading of the application system, and the low efficiency of interaction between the client and the server. A method for acquiring an application resource, comprising: a client starting an extensible markup language (XML) parsing engine to: send to a server a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application, and receive an HTTP response message comprising an XML text fed back by the server on the basis of the HTTP request message; parse the XML text to obtain an application resource that can be run.

Description

Application resource acquisition method and device

The present invention relates to the field of Internet technologies, and in particular, to an application resource acquisition method and apparatus.

In the management operation for the logistics warehouse, a large number of mobile terminals and vehicle-mounted terminals are usually used to participate in the work, which requires installation of an application system for the work in the mobile terminal and the vehicle-mounted terminal. The application system installed in the terminal needs to be synchronized with the server to ensure the uniformity of the operation.

In the development of application systems, the application code of the client is usually written in C# language or VB language, and the application code of the server side is written in JAVA language. In this way, the development of the application system will be divided into two parts, each in a different language. Due to the language isolation between the server and the client, the server and the client need to interact through the interface. After updating the application resources on the server side, developers are also required to update the application code written in different languages on the client side.

Due to the inability to unify the development language between the client and the server, the cost of application development and update, as well as the client and the server The cost of interaction between the terminals is higher. Accordingly, the efficiency of application system development and update, and the interaction between the client and the server are less efficient.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for acquiring an application resource, which are used to solve the cost of the development and update of the application system, and the cost of interaction between the client and the server, and the efficiency and user of the application system development and update. The problem of low efficiency of interaction between the end and the server side.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for acquiring an application resource, including: a UE launching an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, and executing: sending a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting acquisition of an application resource of a specified application to a server, and Receiving an HTTP response message containing the XML text fed back by the server based on the HTTP request message; parsing the XML text to obtain an executable application resource.

Optionally, sending a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message to the server for requesting to acquire an application resource of the specified application, including: sending according to an address of the server configured in an XML profile of the specified application The HTTP request.

Optionally, the application resource includes one or more of the following resources: Set objects, interface elements, data objects, and action objects.

Optionally, after parsing the XML text to obtain an executable application resource, the method further includes: running the application resource, and collecting information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application and the operation behavior of the user Information; information and operation behavior information submitted by the user are included in an HTTP request message and sent to the server.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides an application resource update method, including: after receiving a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message sent by a client for requesting acquisition of an application resource of a specified application, the server generates a message based on the HTTP request message. The XML text of the agreed format is sent to the client by the HTTP response message containing the XML text, so that the client parses the XML text through the installed parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource.

Optionally, after the HTTP response message that includes the XML text is sent to the user, the method further includes: receiving, by the client, information that is submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application, and the user The HTTP request message of the operation behavior information is logically processed based on the HTTP request message, and the subsequent XML text is generated and included in the HTTP response message and sent to the client.

Optionally, generating XML text based on the HTTP request message, including: Determining one or more of the setting object, the interface element, the data object, and the action object corresponding to the application resource of the specified application requested by the user, and determining, according to the content of the application resource, according to the definition The XML language description specification for this kind of content describes the content.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an application resource update system, where the system includes a server and a client; the client starts an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, and sends a super file transfer for requesting acquisition of an application resource of a specified application to a server. a protocol HTTP request message; after receiving the HTTP request message sent by the client for requesting to acquire an application resource of the specified application, the server generates an XML text of the agreed format based on the HTTP request message, and includes the Sending an HTTP response message of the XML text to the client; after receiving the HTTP response message including the XML text that the server returns based on the HTTP request message, the client parses the XML text to obtain the XML text. Application resources that can run.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for acquiring an application resource, including: a transceiver module, configured to start an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, and send a super file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application to a server. Receiving, by the server, an HTTP response message including XML text, which is fed back based on the HTTP request message, and a parsing module, configured to, according to the parsing engine, the transceiver module The received XML text is parsed to obtain an application resource that can be run.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides an application resource update apparatus, including: a receiving module, configured to receive a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message sent by a user end for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application; and a generating module, configured to: And generating, according to the HTTP request message received by the receiving module, an XML format of an agreed format, and sending, by the sending module, an HTTP response message that includes the XML text generated by the generating module, to the user end, so that The user end parses the XML text through an installed parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource.

The embodiment of the invention proposes a new mode for developing and updating application resources on the user side: the server generates an XML text of an agreed format based on the HTTP request of the client. The parsing engine is used on the client side to parse the XML text into a working application resource. This method unifies the development language. After the server releases the updated application resources, as long as the HTTP connection is established between the client and the server, it can be directly updated. It is not necessary to download a new application system for each client to reinstall the update. . Therefore, this approach can reduce the cost of application development and update, and the cost of communication and coordination between the server and the client. Accordingly, the efficiency of the development and update of the application system and the efficiency of the interaction between the client and the server are also improved.

10‧‧‧Application Resource Acquisition System

11‧‧‧Server

12‧‧‧ Client

61‧‧‧ transceiver module

62‧‧‧Analytical module

71‧‧‧ receiving module

72‧‧‧ generating module

73‧‧‧Transmission module

1 is a schematic structural diagram of an application resource acquisition system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of application resource interaction between a server and a client according to the present invention; FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for acquiring application resources according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an application interface based on the parsing engine for acquiring an application resource; FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an application interface of the parsed user end; FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for acquiring an application resource according to an embodiment of the present invention; A schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for acquiring an application resource according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1 , a schematic structural diagram of an application resource obtaining system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a server 11 and a client 12; the client 12 may be a warehouse manager performing warehouse management operations (such as performing cargo content in a warehouse). The terminal used for updating the quantity of goods, updating the delivery information, etc.).

The client 12 starts an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, and sends a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of the specified application to the server 11; After receiving the HTTP request message sent by the client 12 for requesting to acquire the application resource of the specified application, the server 11 generates an XML text of the agreed format based on the HTTP request message, and sends an HTTP response message including the XML text. The user terminal 12, after receiving the HTTP response message including the XML text fed back by the server 11 based on the HTTP request message, parses the XML text to obtain an executable application resource.

It can be seen that the embodiment of the present invention innovatively proposes a new mode for developing and updating application resources on the user side: the server generates an agreed-up format extensible markup language based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request of the client. (Extensible Markup Language, XML) text. The parsing engine is used on the client side to parse the XML text into a working application resource. This method unifies the development language. After the server releases the updated application resources, as long as the HTTP connection is established between the client and the server, it can be directly updated. It is not necessary to download a new application system for each client to reinstall the update. . Therefore, this approach can reduce the cost of application development and update, and the cost of communication and coordination between the server and the client. Accordingly, the efficiency of the development and update of the application system and the efficiency of the interaction between the client and the server are also improved.

As shown in FIG. 2, it is a schematic diagram of application resource interaction between the server and the client. The server generates an XML text containing an agreed format of various application resources according to the HTTP request of the client, where the application resources include a setting object and a user interface (User Interface, UI) elements, Data objects, and Action elements. After receiving the XML text, the client parses the installed parsing engine to obtain various application resources and runs the parsed application resources. After that, the server and the client continue to use the method of generating XML text on the server and parsing at the user end for subsequent interaction. The user-side parsing engine is adopted, and the update operation of the user terminal can be all controlled by the background. The user interface is displayed through dynamic rendering, and the client-side application system is not required to be developed, and the interface and communication between the client and the server are not required.

The embodiments of the present invention are further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for acquiring an application resource according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of obtaining an application resource based on a parsing engine corresponding thereto.

The embodiment of the present invention abstracts the application resources of the user end into four parts: a set object, an interface element, a data object, and an action object, wherein the setting object is used to describe the global macro operation, such as whether to open the Global Positioning System (Global Positioning System, GPS), whether to automatically send the client version information, etc. The interface element refers to the functional interface of the application, and an application system usually has multiple functional interfaces. The data object refers to the data in the function interface of the application. For example, a function interface contains a drop-down list, and the data in the drop-down list refers to the data object here. The action object refers to the operation actions performed by the user end, such as moving the interface focus, playing the video file, selecting the text box, and the like. Then, based on the division of several parts of the Use resources to develop an XML language description specification (see the last example of the embodiment), so that a consistent understanding between the server and the client can be achieved, and the parsing engine of the client can parse the XML text. The process of obtaining the application resource by the client, that is, the process of obtaining the application resource by the client based on the parsing engine is as follows:

S301: The UE starts an XML parsing engine, and sends an HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of the specified application to the server.

Here, the client can send an HTTP request according to the address of the server configured in the XML profile of the specified application.

In the specific implementation, the parsing engine is first installed on the user end, and an XML configuration file of an application setting (AppSetting) is deployed in the installation directory, configured to initialize the address of the connection server, and start the parsing engine, according to this setting. The file sends an HTTP request message (HttpRequest) to the server, and the server returns the XML text of the agreed format to the client based on the HTTP request.

S302: After receiving the HTTP request message sent by the UE for requesting to acquire the application resource of the specified application, the server generates an XML text of the agreed format based on the HTTP request message.

As shown in FIG. 4, after receiving the HTTP request from the client, the server may first determine whether the HTTP request is valid, such as determining whether the HTTP request is from the parsing engine of the client, and if valid, determining the request requested by the client. One or more of the four contents of the setting object, the interface element, the data object, and the action object corresponding to the application resource of the application, and according to each of the content corresponding to the application resource, according to the template The XML language description specification of the content defined in the engine development specification and the XML rule specification describes the content. Here, the content described in the template engine development specification and the XML rule specification is a custom XML language description specification. In the figure, the business logic processing interface is a background service code stored in the server, which is used for background logic processing.

S303: The server sends an HTTP response message containing the XML text to the client.

As shown in FIG. 4, after the server generates the XML text according to the XML language specification, it is carried in the HTTP response message (HttpResponse) and sent to the client.

S304: After receiving the HTTP response message of the XML text fed back by the server, the UE parses the XML text through the installed parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource.

As shown in FIG. 4, the XML text has four parts: “WMPSetting”, “WMPUI”, “WMPData”, and “WMPAction”, which respectively correspond to the parsed Setting object, UI element, Data object, and Action object. After the parsed UI element and the Data object are obtained, the UI may be filled with the Data object, and the UI is encapsulated for subsequent submission to the server. After the parsed Action object is obtained, the client can execute the corresponding Action. The Action object can also contain predefined events, such as pressing a Enter key in a text box to play a piece of music. The workbench form in the figure refers to the interface that is preset to be opened after the parsing engine is started, and all subsequent parsing results are attached to the workbench form.

S305: The client runs the parsed application resource through the parsing engine, and collects information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application and information about the operation behavior of the user.

As shown in FIG. 4, the client runs the parsed application resource, that is, displays the data in the application interface and the interface in the workbench form, responds to the action object indicated by the server, and then the user operates the application to input or select in the UI. Relevant information, the relevant operation behavior is performed, and the user collects the information submitted by the user (interface parameter information) and the operation behavior information of the user, and carries it in the HttpRequest and sends it to the server.

S306: The user end sends the information and operation behavior information submitted by the user to the HTTP request message through the parsing engine, and sends the information to the server.

As shown in FIG. 5, the parsing engine parses the XML text returned by the server to form a client application, and FIG. 5 is a running effect diagram. For example, the XML text <TextBox name="account" width="68%" for="loginForm" submitevent="EnterPress" selectall="true" href="http://wmp.daily.taobao.net/rf/login .htm?method=initWare house"></TextBox>, which means that the client generates an input box. When you press the Enter key in the input box, the submitted action will be triggered. The submitted address is a hypertext reference of the text box (Hypertext Reference, href) The address defined by the attribute (http://wmp.daily.taobao.net/rf/login.htm?method=initWar ehouse), which is predefined by the developer. In addition, the user can act on the delivery of the page, such as clicking a button. At this time, the parsing engine automatically collects the information submitted by the user and sends it to the server.

S307: After receiving the HTTP request message sent by the user end and containing the information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application and the operation behavior information of the user, the server performs logical processing based on the HTTP request message to generate subsequent XML text.

S308: The generated subsequent XML text is included in the HTTP response message and sent to the client. Go back to S304.

As shown in FIG. 4, the server performs background logic processing based on the HttpRequest submitted by the client, and generates XML text based on the processed result, and the XML language description specification in the template engine development specification and the XML rule specification, and is carried in the HttpResponse. To the client. The client continues to parse using the parsing engine to obtain subsequent application resources and present them to the user. For example, when the client initially sends the HttpRequest, the server returns the login page of the application to the application. After the user clicks the login button, the server returns the page after login, and the page after login is the subsequent application resource.

With the parsing engine of the client provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the update operation of the user end can be all controlled by the background, and the user interface is all dynamically rendered, and the traditional client/server (Client/Server, C/S) of the application system will be applied. The mode is converted to the browser/server (B/S) mode, no need to specially develop the client application system, and the interface and communication between the client and the server are not required, which can greatly improve the application system development. And update efficiency and save costs. Moreover, the embodiment of the present invention has high scalability, and if a new type of terminal device appears, only the related operation system (Operation System, OS) needs to be developed. The parsing engine is fine, and all the functions of the backend can be reused.

In the embodiment of the present invention, an example of a specification of a description language is as follows:

<WMP>

<! - For global macro operations, such as clearing the screen, clearing the shortcut keys, setting whether to enable UDP listening, urls to access when exiting the program, etc. -->

<WMPSetting>

</WMPSetting>

<! --xml for mapping interface elements-->

<WMPUI>

</WMPUI>

<! --Information for binding -->

<WMPData>

</WMPData>

<! - Perform operations after parsing is completed, such as moving the focus, playing the audio, popping up the prompt box, and caching the data to the device -->

<WMPAction>

</WMPAction>

</WMP>

Common UI element specification example

<HBox height="200" width="80%"></HBox>

Represents a container that defines a horizontal layout, and the elements in this container are laid out according to the level

<Label text="Username:"top="2" width="28%"></Label>

Indicates that a display Label component is defined

<TextBox name="password" width="68%" for="loginForm" passwordchar="*" selectall="true"></TextBox>

Indicates that a text input box is defined

<MoveFocus to="account"></MoveFocus>

Represents an action that defines a moving input focus

<Button text="Login"width="49%" for="loginForm" height="25" type="submit" href="http://wms.cainiao.com/rf/Login.htm?method=login "></Button>

Indicates that a button component is submitted to the server.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a device for acquiring an application resource corresponding to the method for acquiring an application resource, and the method for solving the problem is similar to the method for acquiring the application resource in the embodiment of the present invention, so the device is For the implementation of the method, refer to the implementation of the method, and the repetition will not be repeated.

As shown in FIG. 6, a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for acquiring an application resource according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a transceiver module 61, configured to start an XML language parsing engine of an extendable markup language, and send a request for acquiring a specified application to a server. a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message of the application resource, and receiving an HTTP response message including the XML text fed back by the server based on the HTTP request message; the parsing module 62 is configured to send and receive the HTTP response message based on the parsing engine The XML text received by the module is parsed to obtain an application resource that can be run.

Optionally, the transceiver module 61 is specifically configured to: send the HTTP request according to an address of the server configured in an XML configuration file of the specified application.

Optionally, the application resource includes one or more of the following: setting an object, an interface element, a data item, and an action item.

Optionally, the parsing module 62 is further configured to: run the application resource by using the parsing engine; the transceiver module 61 is further configured to: collect information submitted by a user in an application interface of the specified application, and The user's operation behavior information; the information submitted by the user and the operation behavior information are included in the HTTP request message and sent to the server.

As shown in FIG. 7, a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for acquiring an application resource according to another embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiving module 71, configured to receive a super file transmission sent by a user end for requesting acquisition of an application resource of a specified application. The protocol module 72 is configured to generate an XML file of the agreed format based on the HTTP request message received by the receiving module 71, and the sending module 73 is configured to: send the HTTP response message including the XML text generated by the generating module 72. Sending to the client, so that the client parses the XML text through the installed parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource.

Optionally, the receiving module 71 is further configured to: in the sending module 73, the HTTP response message that includes the XML text. After the information is sent to the user terminal, the HTTP request message sent by the user terminal and containing the information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application and the operation behavior information of the user is received; the generating module 72 is further configured to: The logical processing is performed based on the HTTP request message, and the subsequent XML text is generated and included in the HTTP response message and sent to the client.

Optionally, the generating module 72 is specifically configured to: determine one or more of a setting object, an interface element, a data object, and an action object corresponding to the application resource of the specified application requested by the user, and Each of the content corresponding to the application resource describes the content according to the defined XML language description specification of the content.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that embodiments of the present invention can be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Thus, the present invention can take the form of a fully hardware embodiment, a fully software embodiment, or an embodiment combining soft and hardware aspects. Moreover, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer usable storage media (including but not limited to disk memory, CD-ROM, optical memory, etc.) containing computer usable code therein. .

The present invention has been described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of a method, apparatus (system), and computer program product according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowcharts and/or <RTIgt; These computer program instructions can be provided to a general-purpose computer, A processor of a special purpose computer, embedded processor or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine such that instructions executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing device are generated for implementation in a flow chart or A plurality of processes and/or blocks of means for a function specified in one or more of the blocks.

The computer program instructions can also be stored in a computer readable memory that can boot a computer or other programmable data processing device to operate in a particular manner, such that instructions stored in the computer readable memory produce an article of manufacture including the instruction device. The instruction means implements the functions specified in one or more blocks of a flow or a flow and/or block diagram of the flowchart.

These computer program instructions can also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device to perform a series of operational steps on a computer or other programmable device to produce computer-implemented processing on a computer or other programmable device. The instructions executed on the steps provide steps for implementing the functions specified in one or more flows of the flowchart or in a block or blocks of the flowchart.

Although the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described, it will be apparent to those skilled in Therefore, the scope of the appended claims is intended to be construed as a

It is apparent that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the invention are within the scope of the invention and its equivalents The present invention is also intended to cover such modifications and variations.

Claims (15)

An application resource obtaining method, the method comprising: a user end launching an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, executing: sending a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application to a server, and receiving the server An HTTP response message containing XML text based on the HTTP request message; parsing the XML text to obtain an executable application resource. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting acquisition of an application resource of the specified application to the server comprises: configuring according to an XML profile in the specified application The address of the server, which sends the HTTP request. The method of claim 1, wherein the application resource comprises one or more of the following: setting an object, an interface element, a data item, and an action object. The method of claim 1, wherein the parsing the XML text to obtain the executable application resource further includes: running the application resource, and collecting information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application. And the user's operation behavior information; the information submitted by the user and the operation behavior information are included in the HTTP request message and sent to the server. An application resource obtaining method, the method comprising: After receiving the Hyper File Transfer Protocol HTTP request message sent by the UE for requesting to acquire the application resource of the specified application, the server generates an XML text of the agreed format based on the HTTP request message; and sends an HTTP response message containing the XML text. The user is provided to enable the client to parse the XML text through the installed parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource. The method of claim 5, wherein after the HTTP response message including the XML text is sent to the client, the method further includes: receiving, by the client, the user interface submitted by the application in the specified application. The information and the HTTP request message of the user's operation behavior information are logically processed based on the HTTP request message, and the subsequent XML text is generated and included in the HTTP response message and sent to the client. The method of claim 5, wherein the generating the XML text based on the HTTP request message comprises: determining a setting object, an interface element, a data object corresponding to the application resource of the specified application requested by the client, And one or more of the four contents of the action object, and for each content corresponding to the application resource, the content is described according to the defined XML language description specification of the content. An application resource acquisition system, the system includes a server and a client; the client starts an XML markup engine of an extendable markup language, and The server sends a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of the specified application; after receiving the HTTP request message sent by the client for requesting to acquire the application resource of the specified application, the server is based on the HTTP The request message generates an XML text in an agreed format, and sends an HTTP response message containing the XML text to the client; after receiving the HTTP response message containing the XML text, the server sends the message based on the HTTP request message, The XML text is parsed to obtain an application resource that can run. An application resource obtaining device, comprising: a transceiver module, configured to start an extendable markup language XML parsing engine, and send a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application to the server, and receive the The server responds to the HTTP request message and sends an HTTP response message containing the XML text. The parsing module is configured to parse the XML text received by the transceiver module based on the parsing engine to obtain an executable application resource. The device of claim 9, wherein the transceiver module is specifically configured to: send the HTTP request according to an address of the server configured in an XML profile of the specified application. The device of claim 9, wherein the application resource comprises one or more of the following: a setting object, an interface element, a data item, and an action item. The device of claim 9, wherein the solution The module is further configured to: run the application resource by using the parsing engine; the transceiver module is further configured to: collect information submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application, and information about the operation behavior of the user; The submitted information and operational behavior information is sent to the server in an HTTP request message. An application resource obtaining device, the device comprising: a receiving module, configured to receive a hyper file transfer protocol HTTP request message sent by a user end for requesting to acquire an application resource of a specified application; and a generating module, configured to be based on the receiving module The received HTTP request message generates an XML text in an agreed format; the sending module is configured to send an HTTP response message including the XML text generated by the generating module to the client, so that the client passes the installed parsing engine The XML text is parsed to get an application resource that can run. The device of claim 13, wherein the receiving module is further configured to: after the sending module sends an HTTP response message including the XML text to the client, receive the content sent by the client The HTTP request message submitted by the user in the application interface of the specified application and the operation behavior information of the user; the generating module is further configured to: perform logic processing based on the HTTP request message, generate subsequent XML text, and include the HTTP response message Sent to the client. The device of claim 13 or 14, wherein the generating module is specifically configured to: determine a setting object, an interface element, a data object, and an action object corresponding to an application resource of the specified application requested by the user end. One or more of the four contents, and for each of the content corresponding to the application resource, the content is described according to the defined XML language description specification of the content.