Getting Started

To start using FluentOlap, create a class that inherits from the Analytical Object.

This initializes some sane defaults for the denormalized Type Map, which is the end result of using the Analytical object.

public class SomeClass {
     public int x {get; set;}
     public int y {get; set;}
}

public class SomeClassAnalyzer : AnalyticalObject<SomeClass> {}

Creating an instance of this class will give the ability to retrieve its type map.

SomeClassAnalyzer analyzer = new SomeClassAnalyzer();
TypeMap map = analyzer.TypeMap;

As mentioned in its documentation, the type map will contain the denormalized model.

Furthermore, you can populate (retrieve data) using the same analyzer object and defining a service.

analyzer.ServiceName = "SomeClassService";

FluentOlapConfiguration.ServiceDefinitions = new ServiceDefinitions {
    // Note, you can use template urls in the HttpService, covered in the service section
    ["SomeClassService"] = new HttpService("https://url.xyz/api/{name}"),
}

PopulationResult result = analyzer.PopulateAsync(new HttpServiceOptions {
    Parameters = { // Note, parameters is of type object, so any properties will work.
        name = "foo"
    }
})

The Population Result can then be used as if it is a Dictionary<string, object>. Different modules of FulentOlap may be used to load it into a database and the like. But as for the core, this is the end result of the population process.

Insertion into a database

You can use the PopulationResult to also insert the data into the database using the Ingester plugin, the ingester requires a database provider.

// Creating an instance of the ingester requires a database provider.
DataIngester ingester = new DataIngester(new MariaDbProvider(MariaDbTableEngine.InnoDB, new Dictionary<InternalType, string>()
    {
        [InternalType.STRING] = "TEXT",
        [InternalType.INTEGER] = "BIGINT",
        [InternalType.FLOAT] = "FLOAT",
        [InternalType.BOOLEAN] = "BOOLEAN",
        [InternalType.DATETIME] = "DATETIME"
    }));



// This will handle creating the table if it does not exist, updating it if it has changed and 
// Database insertion
await ingester.InsertIntoDb(result);