Execution plan generator and execution engine for interfacing with application programming interfaces

摘要

Embodiments for a method of interfacing with a remote application programming interface (API) by defining an execution plan using an interface definition language and a dependency configuration file to generate a constrained directed graph of hierarchically dependent functions of the API, and executing the execution plan using an executing engine that traverses the graph to call the API functions in a defined order and convert data output by a parent function call to input required by a child function call until a terminal vertex is reached that results in directing the resulting in an action such as data to persist and/or affecting the state of a system.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of interfacing with a remote application programming interface (API), comprising:
a processor-based execution plan builder defining an execution plan using an interface definition language and a dependency configuration file to generate a constrained directed graph of hierarchically dependent functions of the API; and a processor-based execution engine executing the execution plan using an executing engine that traverses the graph to call the API functions in a defined order and convert data output by a parent function call to input required by a child function call.