Concerto

A lightweight schema language and runtime for business concepts.

concept Person identified by name  {
  o String name
  o Address address optional
  @description("Height (cm)")
  o Double height range=[0,]
  o DateTime dateOfBirth 
}

🏢 Concerto gives you “just enough” expressivity to capture real-world business models, while remaining easy to map to most runtime environments.

⛳ An object-oriented language that is much easier to read and write than JSON/XML Schema, XMI or equivalents.

📄 Serialize your instances to JSON

🍪 Deserialize (and validate) instances from JSON

🔎 Introspect the model using a powerful set of APIs

🎛 Convert the model to other formats:

• JSON Schema
• XML Schema
• OData CDSL
• GraphQL Schema
• Java Classes
• Go Types
• C# Classes
• TypeScript Classes
• Protobuf Messages
• PlantUML Diagrams
• Mermaid UML Diagrams
• Markdown (with embedded Mermaid)
• OpenAPI v3 specification document
• Apache Avro

🕸 Publish your reusable models to any website, including the Accord Project model repository

Infer models from other formats:

• JSON document
• JSON Schema
• OpenAPI v3 specification document

Getting Started

• Install the Command Line Tool
• Read the Concerto specification

$ npm i -g @accordproject/concerto-cli
$ concerto compare --old model.cto --new model-with-changes.cto 
[required-field-added]: The required field "weight" was added to the concept "Person" (major) 

• Open VSCode (on the web, on your machine)

• Add to your Node.js project
• Add to your .NET project

Structure of the Code

Top level repository (concerto), with sub packages. Each sub-package is published as an independent npm module using lerna:

• concerto-cli : command-line interface for Concerto
• concerto-core : core library for model management/parsing/validation/serialization
• concerto-tools : model converters and tools for Concerto model files
• concerto-util : contains utility functions used in other parts of the code and fundamentally independent from Concerto as a modeling language
• concerto-metamodel : contains utility functions for accessing and manipulating the new Concerto metamodel
• concerto-cto : contains the parser for the .cto syntax for Concerto. The parser now outputs a proper Concerto object, instance of the metamodel rather than a custom JSON object.
• concerto-vocabulary : functionality to handle model vocabularies and localization
• concerto-analysis : tools for comparing model files
• concerto-types : TypeScript type definitions for Concerto
• concerto-dotnet : .NET type definitions for Concerto, and serialization tools

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