CONTROLLING RUNTIME ACCESS TO APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACES

摘要

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling runtime access to application programming interfaces Embodiments of the invention allow library developers to more precisely and easily control which of their libraries' APIs can be called dynamically. Thus, their servicing and versioning burden can be more appropriately controlled. Further, application developers can control which such APIs to further exclude from dynamic calling scenarios, to minimize the runtime support overhead (e.g., preventing generation of metadata).

主权项

1. A method for use at a computer system, the computer system including a processor, the method for altering visibility into programming interface, the method comprising the processor:
determining that a default visibility into the programming interface is to be altered, the default visibility defined by an programming interface type of the programming interface, the default visibility defining what other software components can access the programming interface at runtime; and overriding the default visibility by attaching an additional attribute to the programming interface, the additional attribute indicating to a visibility calculation module that runtime dynamic access requests to access the programming interface are to be evaluated using the additional attribute attached to the programming interface.