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Application Structure & Flow
The user request gets passed through the entire application to all modules. The same goes for the response which gets created at the beginning and passed through the application to be filled. The WebApplication automatically forwards the user request to the correct application e.g. Backend, Api. Inside the application the user request gets routed and the routes are forwarded to the dispatcher which resolves the routes.
The routes usually reference endpoints in the module controllers which collects the model data through the model mapper and creates a partial response view with an assigned template and the collected model data.
In the following only the WebApplication and Application are mentioned as the other components are explained in detail in their respective documentation.
WebApplication
The WebApplication has a very limited purpose. It only initializes the user request and the empty response object. Additionally the WebApplication also initializes the UriFactory based on the user request and forwards the request to the correct application. The response of the application is finally rendered in the WebApplication.
Application
The Application workload depends heavily on the type of the application but in general it initializes:
- Localization
- Database
- Router
- Dispatcher
- ModuleManager
- Cache
- Account Manager
- Event Manager
- App Settings
- Page View
Furthermore the Application also performs a CSRF check, defines the CSP, authenticates the user and handles global errors such as invalid application permission, database connection error etc.
Database
A short extract of the database structure can be seen below. Please note that this only contains the very basic tables from a fresh install with very few modules and even then we only included the key tables for simplicity reasons.
