Efficiently providing multiple metadata representations of the same type

摘要

Embodiments are directed to dynamically adapting metadata for use with a native data encoding and to efficiently modifying object model type references. In one scenario, a computer system instantiates a metadata reader over an object model description to access various portions of metadata in the object model description. The metadata reader is configured to read native metadata, where native metadata is metadata represented in an encoding that is expected by the metadata reader. The metadata reader determines that the accessed metadata is encoded in a non-native encoding and then determines which metadata modifications are to be performed to transform the non-native encoding into a native encoding. The computer system then dynamically adapts the metadata of the object model from a non-native encoding to a native encoding according to the determined modifications. As such, the object model is readable by a native runtime.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for dynamically adapting metadata for use with a native data encoding, the computer-implemented method being performed by one or more processors executing computer executable instructions for the computer-implemented method, and the computer-implemented method comprising acts of:
accessing one or more portions of metadata in a file containing an object model description of an object model, the metadata comprising metadata represented in an encoding that is expected by a metadata reader configured to read native metadata; determining that at least some of the one or more portions of the accessed metadata are encoded in a non-native encoding; determining one or more metadata modifications required to transform the non-native encoding into native encoding for the at least some of the one or more portions of the accessed metadata; and adapting the accessed portions of metadata from non-native encoding to native encoding according to the determined one or more modifications, such that the native and non-native encodings of the accessed portions of the metadata are contained in the file containing the object model descriptions for the object model, and such that the object model is readable by a native runtime.