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is there a word that encompasses both 'schema' and 'data'?

I need a word that covers both schema and data.

I'm designing some classes that are part of a system that needs to store and process data that will only be defined at run time. I have some classes that contain a definition objects, and a storage objects.

This is going into a refactor of a core section a code base that has been going strong for 15 years, lots of people will need to use and understand the source code, so i'd like to do what i can to make it easy to understand. A group of us a have haggled and sweated over the design, but no-one has come up with a name for the classes:

I feel:

[Unknown Word]
|
|______schema
|______data

is what we are looking for

but

data
|
|______schema
|______storage

is the best so far.

Solution

  • How about model?

    You have some data which is persisted to the store according to a given schema (possibly required by the store itself). You create, remove, update or delete data through some operations, which present the results in a format useful for manipulation: this format can be the same one defined by the storing schema or an abstraction or anyway a manipulation of it.

    I would go with model.