Self-service composed web APIs

摘要

Individual datasets are accessed using an application programming interface (API). Multiple APIs may be combined into a composite API that allows a user to access multiple datasets using a single query. The composite API may be designed to provide a simpler way to consume information from multiple datasets in response to a particular scenario or problem. The composite API may comprise multiple levels of intermediate APIs that call on each other to access desired datasets. A user may select the datasets that the composite API accesses and/or the composite API may require certain specific datasets. The composite API may be offered for sale or use by other users via a website, such as a data market.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
providing a plurality of data source application programming interfaces (API) to API creators, each of the APIs providing an interface to one or more data sources; allowing the API creators to create a composite API that allows users to access multiple data source APIs using a single query, the composite API configured to generate intermediate queries to two or more intermediate APIs, wherein each intermediate API is configured to retrieve information from an associated data source based upon an intermediate query and to provide the information to the composite API, the composite API configured to return information from two or more data sources in response to the single query, wherein the response is in a format not available from any of the individual data sources; and offering the composite API to users.