Hi everyone, in my day job I encountered an interesting domain problem that a previous java team has made a bit of a hash of ...
I thought it might be interesting to model it in Pharo to help explain it better to a new team and I was interested in community thoughts as we have some of the best thinkers on tap. The scenario is that a user is presented with several input fields to apply for a loan , one of them is Amount and another the type of loan (cash, invoice, machinery etc). Depending on these answers, they are next presented with different questions - if the amount > 100k there are some high value questions, if the loan type is machinery there are some more additional questions on the type of machine etc. This progresses to a third form and potentially a 4th and 5th. So it’s effectively a decision tree, that rules out different loan types. The UI is a React web form, and I’ve suggested to the team to do some experiments with a dynamic UI that interprets a Json payload that describes the questions, so it’s really about how to model the questions and then render them out in this Json format. I was wondering if this was a typical workflow problem (and whether the netstyle engine was appropriate or wasn’t there some other ones announced recently too?) I’ve never used a workflow engine - But it sounds a bit like the problem above? Or not? Alternatively, I was thinking I could model groups of questions into a Decision, and then have a DecisionJourney of Decisions. Each decision could have some match and dependency criteria - e.g. some sort of matcher block eg [:d | d amount > 100 & d type = #machinery] and then some method to add questions to a DecisionForm on a match which would then render the Json payload. But I wondered if workflow engines just do this, and they might handle extra stuff for free. Anyone have any thoughts or directions to explore? Tim Sent from my iPhone
