Fluent.Calculations.DotNetGraph 1.1.0-aplha.57

Fluent Calculations

One of the more powerful ways to make a program readable is to break the calculations up into intermediate values that are held in variables with meaningful names. - Robert C. Martin, Clean Code, A Handbook of Agile Craftsmanship

<div align="justify"> By following this principle together wit Fluent Calculations library we gain an ability to write readable calculations as well as get insights at runtime. </div>

Motivation

<div align="justify"> <p> Having worked on many line of business and some finance applications authors have observed a common difficulty of understating and communicating non-trivial business logic or calculations. </p><p> Validating the correctness of financial calculations, like tax calculations for example, involves a lot of effort on analyst or tester side. For a developer pinpointing problems from just the final result is challenging, thus often we resort to manual debugging. </p><p> TDD falls short of communicating more complex test cases to business people as it relies on quite granular decomposition. Splitting up some algorithms is not always a good option too, due to loss of the original conciseness. Troubleshooting calculations happening in a production environment is impossible without deploying some manual logging that makes code noisy and less readable. </p> <p> This project attempts to provide a clean way to get an <b>"X-ray"</b> of calculations or business logic. </p> </div>

The Goal

Spend minutes of programming to save hours of debugging and testing.

Features

• Number (Decimal) and Condition (Boolean) datatype are supported,
• Seamlessly use C# math and logic operators,
• Build isolated calculation components,
• Close to no boilerplate code,
• Serialize calculation tree to JSON,
• Generate DOT graph output of your calculations,
• Render graph as an image.

Get Started

Fluent.Calculations can be installed using the Nuget package manager or the dotnet CLI.

dotnet add package Fluent.Calculations.Primitives

Documentation

• Project Website
• Class Library Documentation

Usage/Examples

Basic demo calculation:

public class Demo : EvaluationScope<Number>
{
    Number
        A = Number.Of(1),
        B = Number.Of(2),
        C = Number.Of(3);

    Number D => Evaluate(() => A + B);

    Number E => Evaluate(() => D * C);

    public override Number Return() => E;
}

Number result = new Demo().ToResult();

The result value can be :

• Serialized to JSON (example: fluent-calculation-demo.json),
• Converted to DOT Language (example: fluent-calculations-demo.dot),
• Rendered using DOT rendering programs and utilities.

<img src="../assets/example/fluent-calculations-demo.dot.png" alt="Demo calculation graph rendering" width="280" height="auto">

Challenges

• Explore ways to introduce concept of units (Meters, Kilograms, etc.).
• Expand a list of supported operations and math functions.
• Explore ways to optimize lambda expression compilation.
• Explore a ways to reuse existing calculations and attempt to benefit from :
  • Cache compiled expressions,
  • Cache evaluation results,
  • Partial execution depending on changed parameters.
• Explore thread-safety aspects.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

Authors

• @edgars-pivovarenoks
• @artur-karbone

🚀 About The Team

We are bunch of .NET practitioners always looking for ways to make code great.

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