Abbrevation Glossary

A .NET Standard 2.0 library that enables checking terms and abbreviations for compliance against a glossary. In addition, the glossary has methods to abbreviate terms or expand abbreviations based on the GlossaryItems in a Glossary. It was designed for checking data and database models, table names, and column names for compliance with a naming standards glossary.

NuGet Package

This library is available as a compiled package is on Nuget.org

https://www.nuget.org/packages/AbbreviationGlossary/

Architecture

Classes / Objects

Glossary

A container for a colleciton GlossaryItem objects. The glossary provides methods to check a term's compliance by calling CheckCompliance() and passing a logical and physical name. It also has the conversion methods ExpandAbbreviation() and ConvertToPhysical().

You can populate the glossary manually by calling the AddGlossaryItem() method. You can load a glossary from a csv file either locally LoadCsvFileFromLocal() or from a URL LoadCsvFileFromUrl(). The CSV should have a header row with the following heading: Term,Abbreviation,IsTermPreferred.

GlossaryItem

Represents one item in the glossary. It consists of:

Property	Description
Term	A string that represents a spelled out word or phrase. Example: Applesauce or Apple Sauce or Smushed Up Apples
Abbreviation	A string that represents a shortened form of a word or phrase. Example: APLSC
IsTermPreferred	A boolean that represents of the GlossaryItem is the preferred term to be used when converting an abbreviation to a term. (true/false or 0/1)

You can have multiple GlossaryItems with terms that convert to the same abbreviation. Using the examples above, we can have three terms: Applesauce, Apple Sauce, and Smushed Up Apples that all abbreviate to APLSC. However, APLSC can only expand to one of those terms. This is determined by the IsTermPreferred property. Therefore, only one of these three GlossaryItems can have the IsTermPreferred set to true. Assuming we want APLSC to expand to Applesauce, then we would set IsTermPreferred to true for Applesauce GlossaryItem. The other two would be set to false.

There cannot be multiple preferred GlossaryItems for the same Abbreviation. For example, both Applesauce and Apple Sauce cannot be set to preferred.

GlossaryComplianceResult

A GlossaryComplianceResult object is returned by calling the CheckCompliance() on a Glossary. It has various properties about the result of checking the logical and physical names against the glossary.

TermConverterConfig

This class has properties for configuring how a Glossary performs name conversions.

TermConversionResult

A TermConverterResult is returned by calling ExpandAbbreviation() or AbbreviateTerm(). It provides the output of a conversion routine as well as the what nodes were and weren't found in the in the glossary.

Example Usage

These examples can be found in the unit test project.

Name Conversion Example

using AbbreviationGlossary;
namespace Examples
{
    public class Example1
    {
        public void ReadMeExample1()
        {
            Glossary g = new Glossary();
            g.TermConverterConfiguration.DelimeterForNotFound_Left = "<";
            g.TermConverterConfiguration.DelimeterForNotFound_Right = ">";

            g.AddGlossaryItem(new GlossaryItem("Person", "PRSN", true));
            g.AddGlossaryItem(new GlossaryItem("First Name", "FNM", true));

            TermConversionResult exapndResult1 = g.ExpandAbbreviation("PRSN_FNM");
            Console.WriteLine(exapndResult1.Output);
            //Person First Name

            TermConversionResult exapndResult2 = g.ExpandAbbreviation("PRSN_PRNT_FNM");
            Console.WriteLine(exapndResult2.Output);
            //Person <PRNT> First Name
        }
    }
}

Compliance Check Example

using AbbreviationGlossary;
namespace Examples
{
    public class Example2
    {
        public void ReadMeExample2()
        {
            Glossary g = new Glossary();
            g.AddGlossaryItem(new GlossaryItem("Person", "PRSN", true));
            g.AddGlossaryItem(new GlossaryItem("First Name", "FNM", true));

            string term = "Person First name";
            string abbreviation = "PRSN_FNM";

            GlossaryComplianceResult result = g.CheckCompliance(term, abbreviation);

            Console.WriteLine(result.PreferredTermIsUsed);
            //true

            Console.WriteLine(result.TermAbbreviatesCorrectly);
            //true

            Console.WriteLine(result.AbbreviationExpandsToTermCorrectly);
            //true
        }
    }
}