Virtual backward associations for generic request handling based on models

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, in response to instantiation of an application that enables access to data within the database layer through a data model provided as a computer-readable file, the data model defining a set of associations between two or more tables stored in the database layer, processing the data model to provide a set of inverted associations, each inverted association being specific to a respective association in the set of associations, generating an enriched data model including the set of associations of the data model and the set of inverted associations, and hosting a service that uses the enriched data model to enable access to the data within the database layer based on one or more queries submitted from a web client.