Framework for system communication for handling data

摘要

Techniques for making internal data from a source application available through an application programming interface (“API”). Embodiments may analyze a source application to determine a storage location and a first storage format of internal data, wherein the source application does not provide an API through which the internal data is accessible. Embodiments may then extract the internal data from the storage location, and convert the extracted data from the first storage format to a common storage format. Embodiments may then provide an API to make the converted data available.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for making internal data maintained internally by a source application accessible, comprising:
monitoring, by a discovery application separate from the source application, a plurality of actions taken by the source application; analyzing the plurality of actions to identify internal data maintained by the source application comprising:
identifying a location within a first file where the source application maintains the internal data, based on at least one of the plurality of actions; anddetermining a first storage format the source application maintains the internal data in, based on at least one of header information for the first file, a file extension of the first file, and at least a portion of content contained in the first file; retrieving the data from the identified location; converting, by operation of one or more computer processors, the retrieved data from the determined first storage format to a common format; upon converting the retrieved data, storing the converted data within a database; and providing an API for accessing the converted data within the database.