Codeless Generation of APIs

摘要

Some embodiments provide a novel method of generating application programming interfaces (APIs) in a codeless manner. The method generates a schema description of a data storage (e.g., a relational database) with which an API-accessible object may have to exchange data (e.g., from which the object may have to read data and/or to which the object may have to write data) to process an API request during the execution of an application. Based on the generated schema description, the method constructs one or more data graphs, with each data graph representing one set of relationships between different sets of fields in the data storage. After generating the data graphs, the method generates a large number of possible API permutations by using the generated data graphs. After generating the large number of possible API permutations, the method presents the generated sample APIs so that a developer can select and customize one or more APIs while developing an application.

主权项

1. A method for generating a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs) in a codeless manner, the method comprising:
receiving a request for a description of a database schema; upon identifying the database schema description, generating a plurality of APIs based on the identified description; and publishing the generated plurality of APIs through a set of tools to a user, wherein the user selects a set of the plurality of APIs using the set of tools.