CN117130648A

CN117130648A - Application management method, device and system

Info

Publication number: CN117130648A
Application number: CN202311085126.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘治夏; 徐振伟; 韩永斌
Original assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Zhejiang Zeekr Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Zhejiang Zeekr Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-08-25
Filing date: 2023-08-25
Publication date: 2023-11-28

Abstract

The invention provides an application management method, device and system. The method is applied to an application management server and comprises the following steps: receiving a material acquisition request initiated by an application development client for a target material required by a target application to be developed, wherein the target material is determined by the application development client from candidate materials provided by the application management server for the target application according to the detected material selection operation; responding to the material acquisition request to assist the application development client in acquiring the target material, and receiving application codes of the target application which are developed by the application development client based on the target material; and testing the application code, and issuing the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

Description

Application management method, device and system

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of software development, and in particular, to an application management method, device and system.

Background

At present, the electronic device may run APP (Application), applet (Mini Program), page, and other various types of applications. The development process of the applications has a corresponding development life cycle, and the development life cycle of any application generally comprises a plurality of nodes for development, testing, release and the like, and each node needs to be processed by a developer respectively.

In the related art, for each node in the development lifecycle of any application, a developer typically needs to process separately in a corresponding system. For example, programming is performed in a development system to develop the application, then the application is tested in a test system, and finally the application passing the test is sent out in a release system for the use of an ordinary user.

As can be seen, the multiple nodes in the development lifecycle of an application are split in different systems, so that a developer needs to use multiple different systems in sequence to complete the development process of the application, i.e. the development lifecycle of an application needs to be completed by mutually cooperating multiple systems. In the development process of any application, the unavoidable time loss of the developer switching between different systems seriously affects the overall development efficiency of the application by the developer.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention provides an application management method, device and system to solve the deficiencies in the related art.

Specifically, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an application management method applied to an application management server, the method comprising:

Receiving a material acquisition request initiated by an application development client for a target material required by a target application to be developed, wherein the target material is determined by the application development client from candidate materials provided by the application management server for the target application according to the detected material selection operation;

responding to the material acquisition request to assist the application development client in acquiring the target material, and receiving application codes of the target application which are developed by the application development client based on the target material;

and testing the application code, and issuing the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an application management method applied to an application development client, the method comprising:

determining a selected target material from candidate materials provided by an application management server for target applications to be developed according to the detected material selection operation;

initiating a material acquisition request aiming at the target material to the application management server, and acquiring the target material with the assistance of the application management server;

And developing the target application based on the target material, and providing the developed application code to the application management server for testing, so that the application management server issues the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an application management system comprising an application management server and an application development client, wherein,

the application development client is used for determining a selected target material from candidate materials provided by the application management server for the target application to be developed according to the detected material selection operation; the material acquisition request for the target material is initiated to the application management server, the target application is developed based on the acquired target material, and the developed application code is provided to the application management server;

the application management server side is used for responding to the material acquisition request to assist the application development client side in acquiring the target material; and testing the received application code, and issuing the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an application management apparatus applied to an application management server, the apparatus comprising:

the application development client is used for detecting a material selection operation of the target material to be developed, wherein the material selection operation is performed by the application management server according to the material selection operation, and the material selection operation is performed by the application development client according to the material selection operation;

the acquisition assisting unit is used for assisting the application development client in acquiring the target material in response to the material acquisition request and receiving application codes of the target application which is developed by the application development client based on the target material;

and the test release unit is used for testing the application code and releasing the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an application management apparatus applied to an application development client, the apparatus comprising:

the information receiving unit is used for determining a selected target material from candidate materials provided by the application management server for target applications to be developed according to the detected material selection operation;

The material acquisition unit is used for initiating a material acquisition request aiming at the target material to the application management server and acquiring the target material with the assistance of the application management server;

and the application development unit is used for developing the target application based on the target material and providing the developed application code to the application management server for testing, so that the application management server can issue the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test is passed.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic device comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor implements the steps of the method of the first or second aspect by executing the executable instructions.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the method of the first or second aspect.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention can comprise the following beneficial effects:

the application management system comprises an application management server and an application development client. The application management server side can provide alternative materials for target applications to be developed, so that application developers can select target materials required by the target applications for developing the target applications from the materials through material selection operation. After determining a target material according to a material selection operation implemented by a developer, an application development client may determine the target material according to the detected operation, initiate a material acquisition request to an application management server and acquire the target material with the assistance of the application management server, develop a target application based on the acquired target material, and provide a developed application code to the application management server. The latter tests the received application code and issues the target application (already developed) based on the application code if the test passes. The complete development lifecycle of the target application is thus completed.

In the application management system, through the mutual coordination of the application management server and the application development client, the whole process of development, test and release of the target application can be completed. Therefore, the application management system can cover all nodes in the development life cycle of the target application, so that a developer can finish sequential processing of all the nodes in the system, the system is used for realizing full-flow efficient management of the complete development life cycle of the target application, time loss possibly generated by switching between different systems by the developer is effectively avoided, and the overall development efficiency of the target application is improved to a certain extent.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, the following description will make a brief introduction to the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. It is evident that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention and that other drawings may be obtained from these drawings without inventive effort for a person of ordinary skill in the art.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an application management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an application management method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another application management method shown in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of an electronic device shown in an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an application management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a block diagram of another application management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, the same numbers in different drawings refer to the same or similar elements, unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary examples do not represent all implementations consistent with the invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with aspects of the invention.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any or all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various information, these information should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of the invention. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "at … …" or "responsive to a determination", depending on the context.

Embodiments of the application management method of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of an application management system according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, the system may include a network 10, an application management server 11, an application running server 12, a code repository 13, and a number of electronic devices, such as a computer 14, a computer 15, and a computer 16.

Either one of the application management server 11 and the application running server 12 may be a physical server including an independent host, or may be a virtual server, a cloud server, or the like, which is borne by a host cluster. Any one of the computers 14 to 16 may be a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, or the like. Moreover, computers 14-16 are but one type of electronic device that may be used by a user. Indeed, it is obvious that the user may also use electronic devices of the type such as: a cell phone, workstation (Work Station), palm computer (PDAs, personal Digital Assistants), wearable devices (e.g., smart glasses, smart watches, etc.), VR (Virtual Reality) devices, AR (Augmented Reality) devices, etc., without limitation, as one or more embodiments of the present invention. The code repository 13 may store codes in any form, for example, the code repository 13 may be a relational database such as MySQL, oracle, SQL Server, mariaDB, or a non-relational database such as redis, mongoDB, memcache, which is not limited in the present invention. In some embodiments, the application management system may further include an NPM (Node Package Manager, package management tool, or Ninja Pumpkin Mutants, nonprofit Pizza Makers) platform, and the aforementioned code repository 13 may be included as part of the NPM platform. The network 10 may comprise various types of wired or wireless networks.

The computer 14 may be used as a material development client for interacting with the code repository 13, such as submitting source codes of the functional components to be shared to the code repository 13. The computer 15 or the computer 16 may act as an application development client for interacting with the application management server 11 and/or the code repository 13. For example, the computer 15 may receive and display the related information of multiple candidate materials issued by the application management server 11, initiate a material acquisition request for the target material data 1 to the related information, and then respond to the target access address of the material 1 returned by the application management server 11, and pull the target source code of the material 1 from the code repository 13 according to the address. For another example, the computer 16 may receive and present information about a plurality of candidate materials issued by the application management server 11 and initiate a material acquisition request for the target material matter1 to the candidate materials, and then receive the target source code that the application management server 11 pulls and returns from the code repository 13 according to the corresponding target access address in response to the request. Computers 14-16 may also be used as application development clients for respectively implementing development, testing, and release of target applications. If the computer 14 can develop the target application according to the operation of the application management server 11 and the developer, and upload the developed application code to the application management server 11 for management; furthermore, the computer 15 may initiate a test request for the target application to the application management server 11, so that the application management server 11 tests the target application according to the application code in response to the request; further, in the case of passing the test, the application management server 11 may send the application code to the application running server 12 to run in response to the issuing request of the computer 16—through the above process, through the interaction between each server and the client in the application management system, the corresponding processing of each node in the complete development life cycle of the application, such as development, test, and issuing, is completed.

In addition, for either one of the application development client and the materials development client, the application program thereof may be pre-installed on the electronic device (e.g., computers 14 to 16, etc.), so that the client may be started and run (i.e., in a C/S architecture) on the electronic device. For example, an application program of a material development client may be installed and run in the computer 14, thereby implementing the computer as a material development client for interacting with other devices in the application management system. Of course, when an online "client" such as HTML5 technology is used, the client can be obtained and run (i.e., using a B/S architecture) without installing a corresponding application on the electronic device. For another example, the computer 15 and/or the computer 16 may access an online client (i.e., the application development client) provided by the application management server through a locally running browser, which is not described herein.

It should be noted that the application management system of the present invention includes an application management server and an application development client, and in addition, may also include a code warehouse, a material development client, and an application running server. The number of the devices can be one or more, and only any one of the devices is exemplified in the specification.

Aiming at the problems in the related art, the scheme provides an application management system and an application management method respectively applied to an application management server and an application development client in the system. The application management system comprises an application management server and an application development client, wherein,

The interface logic of each client in the system can be realized through webpage technologies such as html, css, js and the like. By way of example, the application development client and the material development client may be generated by Electron technology packaging. Through the application development client, an application developer of a target application (such as an APP, an applet, a page and the like) can customize a local directory for storing acquired target materials (such as source codes of the materials). The application developer can create an application development project aiming at the target application through the application development client, and appoint the local catalog in the project, so that the target application can be developed locally through the obtained target material.

It should be noted that, the candidate materials and the target materials described in the specification (the target materials are one or more candidate materials selected by an application developer) are used to implement a preset software function, and may be used by the developer to develop the target application. In particular, these materials may be in any form of application scaffolding, page modules, code segments, functional components, etc. Taking a functional component as an example, it may specifically be an item, a piece of code, or a block of code, etc. that includes source code. Illustratively, the functional component may be a front-end component of a button, a form, or the like. The preset function realized by any material can be as follows: an operation function of performing a specific operation on input data according to a preset calculation algorithm, an encryption function of encrypting the input data according to a preset encryption algorithm, a multimedia processing function of performing a specific analysis on input multimedia resources (images, videos, music, etc.) or adding a watermark, etc., and the like. In fact, the functional components may implement any form of preset functions.

The material can be composed of source codes and code parameters thereof, and the preset function of the material can be realized by operating the source codes in the material according to the code parameters in a proper operation environment. The source code in the material can be written by C, C ++, python, java and other programming languages, and can be run in Android (Android), iOS, windows, mac OS, linux and other operating environments, and the invention does not limit the environment, resources, configuration and other related conditions required by the source code running of the material. In addition, the application management system is used for developing, testing and publishing target applications, which can be front-end applications or back-end applications, and the front-end applications are exemplified by, and can be in any form such as APP, applet, page and the like. The object to be developed is an installation package of the APP, an applet or an application code of a page, and the like; and after the release is completed, the target application may be opened to the outside in the form of URL (Uniform Resource Locator ) or the like, so as to provide services for the terminal accessing the application, which is not limited in this specification.

Any material of the candidate material and the target material may be developed by a corresponding developer (hereinafter referred to as a material developer), such as writing source code, setting code parameters, and the like. The material development client in the application management system may be a client used by a sharer of the material, and the sharer may be a developer of the material or may also be other related personnel. Accordingly, the candidate materials shared by the sharers can be used by other developers (i.e., application developers for developing the target application described in the specification) to meet the development requirements of the sharers. The application developer may use an application development client in the application management system to interact with other devices in the system to obtain the target material and use the material in the process of developing the target application.

The following describes in detail the interaction procedure of the application management server and the application development client in the application management system when developing the target application with reference to fig. 2 and 3.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of an application management method according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the method is applied to an application management server, and includes the following steps 202-206.

Step 202, receiving a material acquisition request initiated by an application development client for a target material required by a target application to be developed, wherein the target material is determined by the application development client from candidate materials provided by the application management server for the target application according to the detected material selection operation.

In an embodiment, the material development client may develop materials for implementing the preset function in advance, and submit the materials to the application management server, so that the application management server provides the materials as candidate materials to the application development client for use. The materials developed by the material development client comprise source codes and relevant information thereof, and the materials can be submitted in various modes.

For example, in the case that the application management system includes an NPM platform, the material development client may perform packaging processing on the source code and related information of the material to be submitted according to a preset format or protocol specified by the NPM platform, and send the packaged material packet to the NPM platform for maintenance. And then, the platform can synchronize the related information of the material packet to the application management server for maintenance so that the application management server can send the information to the application development client for display. By the method, the source codes of the materials and the related information thereof can be submitted to the NPM platform for storage, the follow-up application development client can directly add the material package as the dependence of the target application for use without paying attention to specific codes in the material package, and the method is beneficial to simplifying the material use logic of application developers and improving the application development efficiency.

For another example, in the case that the application management system includes a code repository, the material development client may send the source code of the developed material to the code repository, and determine relevant information thereof by the code according to the source code; alternatively, the source code and its related information may be sent by the material to the code repository. After that, the code warehouse can locally store the source codes of the materials on one hand, and can synchronize the related information of the materials to the application management server for maintenance on the other hand, so that the application management server can send the related information to the application development client for display. In this way, the source code of the material and its related information can be stored in different devices, respectively. On one hand, the material development client can directly submit the source code of the material to the code warehouse for storage without packing the source code into a material packet in a specific form; correspondingly, when the material is needed to be used, the application development client can acquire the source code and directly apply the source code to the target application, and because the source code is acquired instead of the functional black box, the application development client can directly conduct secondary development on the basis of the source code, thereby being beneficial to applying the functional component to more development scenes and meeting more diversified development requirements, and further being beneficial to expanding the sharing and application range of the material. On the other hand, the source codes of the materials are stored by the code warehouse, and the related information is maintained by the application management server, so that the source codes of the shared materials and the related information are respectively stored and maintained (namely, the separation of the source codes and the description information is realized), and the application management server and the application development client are directly interacted, so that the storage, query and calling efficiencies of the materials are effectively improved, and the efficient sharing of the materials is facilitated.

Further, in the case that the source code of the material is stored in the code repository and the related information thereof is maintained by the application management server, the code repository may provide the related information of any material to the application management server in various manners. For example, a change acquisition request may be initiated by an application management server to a code repository, where the change acquisition request may be responded by the application management server to return relevant information corresponding to the source code that has changed over a period of time to the application management server. The application management server may initiate the change acquiring request according to a preset plan, such as initiation at a fixed time, periodic initiation, initiation in an idle period, initiation in a predicted high-frequency update period (i.e., a period of time that a sharer predicted by the application management server is more likely to upload a source code of a material, such as a working day), and the like, which are not described herein. It can be understood that, when any change acquisition request is received, the code repository may return, to the application management server, relevant information corresponding to all source codes that have changed in a period from the time when the relevant information was returned to the current time. For another example, the related information of any material submitted by the material development client may be determined in response to receiving the source code of the material, and the information may be pushed to the application management server. The code repository may be pushed in Webhook mode, for example, the code repository may be preconfigured with a URL pointing to the application management server, and then, each time information about a material is determined, the information is contained in a push message and pushed to the URL. It can be understood that the method actively pushes the related information to the application management server by the code warehouse, so that the timely pushing of the information can be realized, and the application management server can update the local related information timely, thereby improving the timeliness of the related information seen by a user, effectively improving the experience of checking and using alternative materials of the user, and avoiding the unexpected situation that a certain alternative material cannot acquire the source code of the alternative material as much as possible.

After receiving the related information of the functional components provided by the code warehouse, the application management server can store the information in a preset storage space, such as a local storage space or an extended storage space, and the like, and manage and maintain the information.

An application developer can create an application development project through an application development client that he uses to complete the development of a target application in the project. For the established application development project, the application development client can acquire and display the related information of the alternative materials from the application management server so that an application developer can know each alternative material which can be used in the process of developing the target application by looking up the information; in other words, information about the candidate material may be used to introduce the information.

In an embodiment, the related information of any candidate material may include description information of the material, for example, a function instance, a graph, a table, or the like, and by looking up the function description information, an application developer may learn a preset function that may be implemented by the candidate material, so as to accurately determine whether the function meets a development requirement of a target application. And/or the related information may further include usage instruction information for the usage mode of the material, such as the parameter entering number, type, format, operation environment, parameter configuration, resource requirement (required number of CPU cores, memory capacity) and the like of the source code of the candidate material, by looking up the usage instruction information, an application developer may know the condition required for using the candidate material, so as to accurately judge whether the self condition meets the operation requirement of the candidate material and the specific mode of using the material, thereby avoiding error reporting in the subsequent use process. In addition, the related information of any candidate material may further include an access address of the material, and the like, which is not described herein.

And step 204, the application development client is assisted to acquire the target material in response to the material acquisition request, and the application code of the target application which is developed by the application development client based on the target material is received.

After viewing the related information of each candidate material displayed by the application development client, the application developer can select the target material(s) needed to be used by the development target application from the information by implementing a material selection operation. If the development interface of the target application can display the related information of a plurality of alternative materials, at this time, the application developer can select any one of the alternative materials as the target material and click the "use" button of the material. The application development client can determine the target material in the candidate materials according to the detected operation, and then initiate a material acquisition request for the material to the application management server. Accordingly, the application management server may assist the application development client in obtaining the target material in response to the request.

In one embodiment, the application management server may authenticate the target material before the assistance component application development client obtains it, to verify whether the latter meets the requirements associated with the target material. The application management server side can firstly judge whether the application development client side has the use right aiming at the target material or not, and then assist the application development client side to acquire the target material under the condition that the application development client side is determined to have the use right.

Wherein the application development client has a use right for the target material, and may include at least one of the following: the application management server can verify the payment certificate of the application development client for the target material, and determine that the application development client has the use right for the target material under the condition that the verification is passed. Taking any target material as an example, aiming at a certain target material which needs to be acquired and used by an application developer, an application development client can display a corresponding payment page for the application developer, so that the application developer can finish payment operation (such as code scanning payment and the like) for the component, and receive a payment result returned by a corresponding payment platform: if the payment is successful, the transfer result may include payment credentials; otherwise, only information about payment failure may be included. Further, the application development client may submit the payment credential to the application management server for verification of the authenticity of the credential, the payment amount, etc. by the latter (e.g., by interacting with the paymate). If the verification is passed, it indicates that the application developer has transferred funds with a preset limit to an account corresponding to any target material (such as an account preset by the developer of the material, a public account provided by an application management server, etc.), at this time, it can be determined that the application developer has a right to use the target material, so that the application developer can assist in obtaining the target material. Through verification of the payment credentials, the sharers and other related parties can obtain corresponding assets/values through the sharing target materials, and the sharing willingness and enthusiasm of the sharers are improved.

And/or if the developer corresponding to the application development client belongs to a preset organization, determining that the application development client has the use right for the target material. For example, if a target material, namely, a material, 2, shared by a sharer is used only by each member in organization a (e.g., group, company, group of items, class, etc.), each member in organization a (belonging to organization a) has a right to use the material 2, while each member in organization B (not belonging to organization a) does not have a right to use the material 2. Or if the user level of the application developer corresponding to the application development client in the preset organization architecture is not lower than the preset level, determining that the application development client has the use right for the matter 2. For example, if a certain target material, namely, the material, 3, shared by the sharer is used only by each member whose level in the organization B is not less than the level two, each member whose level in the organization B is not less than the level two has a right to use the material 3, and each member whose level in the organization B is less than the level two does not have a right to use the material 3. By the method, the limit of the use authority of the shared target material can be realized, and the accurate control of the sharing range of the target material can be realized.

It can be understood that, for any target material, the rule for determining the usage rights of the target material may be set specifically by the sharer of the material when uploading the source code, or may be set uniformly in advance by related personnel such as an administrator of the application management system, which is not limited in this aspect of the invention.

In an embodiment, the application management server may issue call information of the target material to the application development client, so that the application development client adds a dependency on the target material in the application code according to the call information. If the material package corresponding to the target material is maintained by the NPM platform, the application management server may acquire call information of the material package corresponding to the target material from the NPM platform and issue the call information to the application development client, or may instruct the NPM platform to send the call information to the application development client. The call information may include an access address, an entry, configuration information, etc. of the material packet. Further, based on the obtained call information, the application management server may add a dependency on the target material (for example, add the call information on the target material in a configuration file under a local directory) in a locally generated application code, so as to implement a call on the material package through the dependency.

In another embodiment, where the alternative materials include functional components for performing a preset function, the target materials may include at least one of these functional components. It will be appreciated that the functional component is one form of the alternative materials described in this specification. As described above, the application management server may receive and maintain the relevant information of the functional component provided by the code repository, where the source code of the functional component may be submitted to the code repository by the material development client for storage, and the relevant information includes the access address of the source code of the functional component in the code repository. Based on the above, the application management server may assist the application development client in acquiring the target source code of the target functional component based on the target access address of the target source code in the code repository. For example, the material obtaining request may carry a material identifier of the target material, and at this time, the application management server may query, according to the identifier, a target access address of a target source code of the target functional component in the code repository. And if so, inquiring the related information of the target functional component according to the component identification of the target functional component, and searching the corresponding target access address in the related information. And the application management server can assist the application development client to acquire the target source code based on the target access address.

Further, the application management server may assist the application development client in acquiring the target source code based on the target access address in a plurality of ways. For example, the target access address may be returned to the application development client to pull the target source code from the code library by the client according to the target access address, thereby reducing the data processing burden on the application management server. In the mode, under the scene that the application management server is simultaneously connected with a plurality of application development clients, the application management server can still ensure that the application management server normally provides services for each application development client, response overtime and even server downtime possibly caused by excessive requests are avoided, and the material acquisition experience of application developers is improved. For another example, the application management server may pull the target source code from the code repository according to the target access address, and return the pulled target source code to the application development client. By adopting the scheme, the exposure of the real access address of the source code in the code warehouse to the application development client can be avoided, so that the potential safety hazard of the code warehouse is reduced.

After the target material is obtained with the assistance of the application management server, the application developer can develop the target application in the application development client, such as editing codes, configuring parameters, setting dependency relationships, and the like. It can be appreciated that in the complete development process of the application, the application development client may need to acquire one or more target materials from the application management server, so that the application developer may implement corresponding development operations for each acquired target material, and finally complete the development of the whole target application.

In one embodiment, an application developer may specify a corresponding local directory in an application development project created for an application and inform the application management server of the local directory. Based on the above, the application management server can generate a code file containing the source code of the target material in the local directory in the process of assisting the application development client in acquiring the target material. With the foregoing embodiment, if the application management server obtains the target source code according to the target access address of the target material, the code file may be generated in the local target specified by the material development client, and the target source code may be written into the code file. Furthermore, an application developer can perform application development based on the source code recorded in the file, for example, the source code is directly used as a code block to be placed at a proper position of a project so as to realize a preset function corresponding to a target material; or performing secondary development on the basis of the source code, namely adding, deleting, modifying and the like to the source code, so that the source code after secondary development realizes the personalized functions and the like expected by application developers, and the details are not repeated.

By the above manner, the application developer may develop the application code of the target application based on the target material on the application development client, and a specific development process may participate in the following description of the corresponding embodiment of fig. 3, which is not repeated herein. After development is completed, the application development client can provide the application code to the application management server for detection and release.

In an embodiment, the application development client may directly submit the application code of the target application to the application management server, and accordingly, the application management server may receive the application code submitted by the application development client. The application development client may submit the application code included in the application test request to the application management server, or may reinitiate the application test request at an appropriate time after the application code is sent to the application management server. It can be seen that, at this time, the application test request for the target application is initiated by the application development client itself, that is, the application development client not only has an application development function, but also integrates an application test function (a test for the application developed by itself is implemented by interacting with the application management server). Through function integration, the number of the clients corresponding to the application management server is reduced, so that the docking logic of the server and each client corresponding to the server is simplified, and the operation efficiency of the application management server is improved.

In another embodiment, application test requests initiated by other application development clients, distinct from the application development client, for the target application may be received by an application management server. Wherein the application code of the target application may be submitted to the application management server by the application development client (at this time, the other application development clients may initiate the application test request to the application management server after determining that the application management server receives the application code); alternatively, the application code of the target application may be sent by the application development client to the other application development client, and included in the application test request initiated by the other application development client to the application management server. In view of that each node in the development life cycle of the target application may need to be jointly completed by multiple application developers (such as the developers participate in the development node, the testers participate in the test node, and the publishers participate in the publishing node; or the developers participate in the development node, the testers participate in the test node, the publishing node, and the like), in order to simplify the related functions of the clients used by each application developer, to avoid confusion of development tasks of the application developers corresponding to different nodes as much as possible, to facilitate efficient management of the development life cycle, different clients can also be provided for the application developers for different nodes, such as providing development clients corresponding to development processes for the developers (i.e., the application development clients described in the foregoing embodiments), providing test clients corresponding to the test processes for the testers, providing publishing clients corresponding to the publishing process for the publishers, and the like, where different clients are respectively used to implement different functions, and the corresponding clients respectively used by different application developers participate in the different nodes in the development life cycle of the target application. It should be understood that the other application development clients may be application development clients integrated with development functions and test functions, or may also include only the foregoing test clients with test functions, which is not limited in this specification.

In an embodiment, the application management server receives the application code, that is, indicates that the application development client has completed the development process for the target application, and may send a development completion notification message to the application development client associated with the target application. The application development client associated with the target application may include an application development client integrated with a test function (e.g., the application development client and/or the test client described above), so that an application developer corresponding to such a client knows the message, and may start executing and/or performing a test task on the application code according to a plan.

And 206, testing the application code, and issuing the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test passes.

After receiving the application code of the target application developed by the application development client, the application management server may test the application code. And issuing the target application based on the application code if the test passes.

In one embodiment, an application developer (e.g., the aforementioned tester) may specify and execute a test task for application code in an application development client that is integrated with test functionality, and send the task to an application management server for execution. The testing process for the application code may be independently completed by the application management server according to the specific function that the application may implement, or may need the application management server to be completed in cooperation with the application development client (e.g., a developer is required to implement a corresponding testing operation in the application development client). In addition, if the application code is judged to be capable of realizing the expected function of the target application, the application code test can be determined to pass; otherwise, if it is determined that the application code cannot achieve the intended function of the target application, it may be determined that the application code test fails. Whether the application code realizes the expected function of the target application can be judged by testing rules, test cases and the like contained in the test task. The specification is not limited to a specific implementation of the test procedure.

In an embodiment, the application management server may further send a corresponding test result notification message to the application development client associated with the target application according to the test result for the application code. For example, if the test passes, a test success message may be sent to the application development clients; otherwise, if the test does not pass, a test failure message may be sent to the application development clients. The application development client associated with the target application may be a client integrated with a development function (such as the application development client or the development client), a client with a test function (such as the application development client or the test client), and/or a client with a release function (such as the application development client or the release client), and by sending the notification message of the test result, relevant application developers can develop corresponding processes in time according to the test result, so that the overall development efficiency of the application management system on the target application is improved to a certain extent. If the development client can display the received test failure message, the developer can timely modify flaws (or Bug) in the application code according to the failure information contained in the test failure message; the test client can display the received test failure message, so that a tester can timely adjust or perfect the test rule and/or the test case according to the failure message contained in the test failure message; the release client can display the received test success message, so that a release person can release the target application passing the test in time according to the success message contained in the message.

In an embodiment, the application management server may issue the target application in a plurality of ways if the application code test passes. For example, in the case that the application code test passes, the application management server may locally run the information application code, thereby locally publishing the target application. For another example, if the application management system further includes an application running server, the application management server may issue the target application to the application running server if the test passes. If the test is passed, automatically sending the application code to a preset application running server for running so as to issue a target application to the application running server; for another example, in the case that the test passes, the application code may be sent to an application running server specified by the issuing instruction in response to the received issuing instruction for the target application, so as to issue the target application to the application running server.

In an embodiment, the application management server may further send a corresponding publishing result notification message to the application development client associated with the target application according to the publishing result for the target application. For example, if the release is successful, a release success message may be sent to the application development clients; otherwise, if the publishing fails, a publishing failure message may be sent to the application development clients. The application development client associated with the target application can be a client integrated with a development function, a client integrated with a release function and/or a client integrated with a release function, and relevant application developers can develop corresponding processing in time according to a release result by sending the release result notification message, so that the overall development efficiency of the application management system on the target application is improved to a certain extent. If the development client and the test client can display the received release success information, the developer and the tester can know that the application is released successfully in time; the publishing client can display the received publishing failure message, so that a publisher can adjust the publishing strategy according to the failure information contained in the publishing failure message and then try to re-publish the target application.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another method of application management, as applied to an application development client, according to an embodiment of the present invention, including steps 302-306 described below.

Step 302, determining a selected target material from candidate materials provided by an application management server for a target application to be developed according to the detected material selection operation.

Step 304, a material acquisition request for the target material is initiated to the application management server, and the target material is acquired with the assistance of the application management server.

And 306, developing the target application based on the target material, and providing the developed application code to the application management server for testing, so that the application management server issues the target application based on the application code under the condition that the test is passed.

The process that the application development client acquires the target material with the assistance of the application management server through interaction with the application management server can be referred to the description of the above embodiments, and will not be repeated here. After obtaining the target material required for developing the target application, the application development client may develop the target application based on the target material, such as editing codes, configuring parameters, setting dependency relationships, and the like. Furthermore, the application development client may provide the developed application code to the application management server for testing, so that the application management server issues the target application based on the application code if the test passes.

It can be appreciated that in the complete development process of the application, the application development client may need to acquire one or more target materials from the application management server, so that the application developer may implement corresponding development operations for each acquired target material, and finally complete the development of the whole target application.

In an embodiment, the candidate materials provided by the application management server may include at least one application scaffold (or framework), where each application scaffold has a corresponding default parameter. The default parameters of any application scaffold can be suitable for as many development scenes as possible, so that the number of parameters which need to be modified by an application developer after the application scaffold is selected as a target scaffold is reduced as much as possible, in other words, the application developer only needs to modify few default parameters or even not modify default parameters, and the application scaffold can be used as a target scaffold of a target application to be developed, so that project construction workload of the application developer is obviously reduced. Based on the above, in the initial stage of the target application development process, the application developer may select one of the above-mentioned at least one application scaffold as a target scaffold (i.e., a target material), and build content and develop functional codes of the application on the basis of the target scaffold. For example, the application development client may respond to the parameter configuration operation for the target application, and update the default parameters of the target scaffold to the personalized parameters specified by the parameter configuration operation, so as to ensure that the target scaffold selected by the application developer can better adapt to the development environment of the target application and meet the development requirement thereof. Correspondingly, the application code of the target application which is developed is the code comprising the target scaffold and the functional code.

In an embodiment, the alternative materials provided by the application management server may also include source code. Based on this, the application development client may generate a code file for recording the application code in a pre-specified local directory, wherein the code file contains the source code and/or contains edited code generated by the application development client in response to an editing operation for the source code. For example, an application developer may specify a local directory of an application development client when creating an application development project to generate a code file (the file is initially empty) under the directory by the application development client. Wherein the local target may be placed in a suitable position in the aforementioned target scaffold. After that, if the source code is acquired with the assistance of the application management server, the source code may be directly written into the foregoing code file, or an edited code may be generated in response to an editing operation of the application developer on the source code, and the edited code may be written into the code file (where the source code written into the code file may be exposed to the application developer so that the application developer directly edits the source code in the file).

In one embodiment, the application code of the target application typically includes a plurality of code blocks. Such as a code block manually written by an application developer, a code block manually pasted by a user, a source code acquired by an application development client with the assistance of an application management server, an edited code obtained by the application developer by editing the source code, an external code block referenced by any code block, and the like. A dependency relationship may exist between the plurality of code blocks, for example, a certain code block manually pasted by a user refers to a certain source code acquired with the assistance of an application management server; some edited code references some external code block, etc. The above-mentioned dependency relationship is critical for the running of the application code and the functional implementation of the target application, so that in order to enable the application developer to conveniently and intuitively know the above-mentioned dependency relationship in the process of developing the target application, the application development client can determine the dependency relationship among a plurality of code blocks in the application code first and display the dependency relationship in the development interface of the target application. By the method, visualization of the dependency relationship can be realized, an application developer can conveniently check and accurately know the dependency relationship, development errors (such as dependency relationship quotation errors) are avoided to a certain extent, and development efficiency is improved.

The application development client may read a package json file under a local directory of the application development project, and analyze and extract a dependencies dependency package and a dependencies tool package in the file content to determine a dependency relationship between each code block in the application code; the dependency may then be visually exposed by running npm/yarn insta material commands in the background, such as in the form of a dependency list, etc.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device shown in an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 4, at the hardware level, the device includes a processor 401, a network interface 402, a memory 403, a nonvolatile memory 404, and an internal bus 405, and may include hardware required by other services. One or more embodiments of the invention may be implemented on a software basis, such as by the processor 401 reading a corresponding computer program from the non-volatile memory 404 into the memory 403 and then running. Of course, in addition to software implementation, one or more embodiments of the present invention do not exclude other implementation, such as a logic device or a combination of software and hardware, etc., that is, the execution subject of the following process flows is not limited to each logic unit, but may also be hardware or a logic device.

Fig. 5 is a block diagram of an application management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 5, the apparatus may be applied to the device shown in fig. 4 to implement the technical solution of the present invention. The device is applied to an application management server, and comprises:

a request receiving unit 501, configured to receive a material acquisition request initiated by an application development client for a target material required by a target application to be developed, where the target material is determined by the application development client from candidate materials provided by the application management server for the target application according to a detected material selection operation;

an acquisition assisting unit 502, configured to assist the application development client in acquiring the target material in response to the material acquisition request, and receive an application code of the target application that is developed by the application development client based on the target material;

and the test issuing unit 503 is configured to test the application code, and issue the target application based on the application code if the test passes.

Optionally, the acquisition assisting unit 502 is specifically configured to:

and sending the calling information of the target material to the application development client so that the application development client adds the dependence on the target material in the application code according to the calling information.

Optionally, the alternative materials comprise functional components for realizing preset functions, the target materials comprise target functional components in the functional components,

the apparatus further includes an information maintenance unit 504, configured to receive and maintain information about the functional component provided by a code repository, where a source code of the functional component is submitted to the code repository by a material development client for storage, and the information includes an access address of the source code of the functional component in the code repository;

the acquisition assisting unit 502 is specifically configured to: and assisting the application development client in acquiring the target source code based on the target access address of the target source code of the target functional component in the code warehouse.

Optionally, the acquisition assisting unit 502 is specifically configured to:

returning the target access address to the application development client to pull the target source code from the code bin library by the application development client according to the target access address; or,

and pulling the target source code from the code bin library according to the access address, and returning the pulled target source code to the application development client.

Optionally, the acquisition assisting unit 502 is specifically configured to:

and under the condition that the application development client side is determined to have the use right for the target material, assisting the application development client side to acquire the target material.

Optionally, the test issuing unit 503 is specifically configured to:

receiving application codes of the target application submitted by the application development client; or,

receiving application test requests initiated by other application development clients different from the application development client for the target application, wherein application codes of the target application are submitted to the application management server by the application development client; or, the application code of the target application is sent to the other application development clients by the application development client and is contained in the application test request.

Optionally, the test issuing unit 503 is specifically configured to:

under the condition that the test is passed, automatically sending the application code to a preset application running server for running so as to release the target application to the application running server; or,

and under the condition that the test is passed, responding to the received issuing instruction aiming at the target application, and sending the application code to an application running server side designated by the issuing instruction for running so as to issue the target application to the application running server side.

Optionally, at least one of the following is further included:

a development message sending unit 505, configured to send a development completion notification message to an application development client associated with the target application, when the application code is received;

a test message sending unit 506, configured to send a corresponding test result notification message to the application development client associated with the target application according to the test result for the application code;

and the release message sending unit 507 is configured to send a corresponding release result notification message to an application development client associated with the target application according to a release result for the target application.

Fig. 6 is a block diagram of another application management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 6, the apparatus may be applied to the device shown in fig. 4 to implement the technical solution of the present invention. The device is applied to an application development client, and comprises:

the information receiving unit 601 is configured to determine a selected target material from candidate materials provided by an application management server for a target application to be developed according to the detected material selection operation;

a material acquiring unit 602, configured to initiate a material acquiring request for the target material to the application management server, and acquire the target material with the assistance of the application management server;

And the application development unit 603 is configured to develop the target application based on the target material, and provide the developed application code to the application management server for testing, so that the application management server issues the target application based on the application code when the test passes.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and the dependency relationship display unit 604 is configured to determine a dependency relationship between a plurality of code blocks in the application code, and display the dependency relationship in a development interface of the target application.

Optionally, the target material includes a target scaffold, and the application development unit 603 is specifically configured to:

and in response to the parameter configuration operation aiming at the target application, updating default parameters of the target scaffold into personalized parameters designated by the parameter configuration operation.

Optionally, the target material includes source code, and the application development unit 603 is specifically configured to:

a code file for recording the application code is generated in a local directory specified by the application development client, wherein the code file contains the source code and/or contains edited code generated by the application development client in response to an editing operation for the source code.

While this invention contains many specific implementation details, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of any invention or of what may be claimed, but rather as features of specific embodiments of particular inventions. Certain features that are described in this invention in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. On the other hand, the various features described in the individual embodiments may also be implemented separately in the various embodiments or in any suitable subcombination. Furthermore, although features may be acting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excised from the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to a subcombination or variation of a subcombination.

Similarly, although operations are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. In some cases, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Moreover, the separation of various system modules and components in the embodiments described above should not be understood as requiring such separation in all embodiments, and it should be understood that the described program components and systems can generally be integrated together in a single software product or packaged into multiple software products.

Thus, particular embodiments of the subject matter have been described. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. In some cases, the actions recited in the claims can be performed in a different order and still achieve desirable results. Furthermore, the processes depicted in the accompanying drawings are not necessarily required to be in the particular order shown, or sequential order, to achieve desirable results. In some implementations, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather to enable any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement or the like to be made within the spirit and principles of the invention.

Claims

1. An application management method, which is applied to an application management server, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the assisting the application development client in obtaining the target material comprises:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the candidate materials include functional components for performing a predetermined function, the target materials include target ones of the functional components,

the method further comprises the steps of: receiving and maintaining related information of the functional components provided by a code warehouse, wherein source codes of the functional components are submitted to the code warehouse by a material development client for storage, and the related information comprises access addresses of the source codes of the functional components in the code warehouse;

the assisting the application development client to acquire the target material comprises the following steps: and assisting the application development client in acquiring the target source code based on the target access address of the target source code of the target functional component in the code warehouse.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the assisting the application development client in acquiring the target source code based on a target access address of the target source code of the target functional component in the code repository comprises:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the assisting the application development client in obtaining the target material comprises:

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the application code of the target application that the application development client has completed based on the target material development comprises:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the issuing the target application based on the application code if the test passes comprises:

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

under the condition that the application code is received, sending a development completion notification message to an application development client associated with the target application;

according to the test result aiming at the application code, a corresponding test result notification message is sent to an application development client associated with the target application;

and sending a corresponding release result notification message to an application development client associated with the target application according to the release result of the target application.

9. An application management method, applied to an application development client, comprising:

10. The method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

and determining the dependency relationship among a plurality of code blocks in the application code, and displaying the dependency relationship in a development interface of the target application.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the target material comprises a target scaffold, the developing the target application based on the target material comprising:

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the target material comprises source code, the developing the target application based on the target material comprising:

a code file for recording the application code is generated in a specified local directory, wherein the code file contains the source code and/or contains edited code generated by the application development client in response to an editing operation for the source code.

13. An application management system is characterized by comprising an application management server and an application development client, wherein,

14. An application management device, applied to an application management server, comprising:

15. An application management apparatus for application to an application development client, the apparatus comprising:

16. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to implement the method of any one of claims 1-12 by executing the executable instructions.

17. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method of any of claims 1-12.