Providing a client interface for a server-based web application programming interface

摘要

Disclosed methods, systems, and articles of manufacture, including processor-readable mediums, relate to providing a client interface for a server-based web application programming interface (API). In a disclosed method, a client device receives a first discovery document that is represented in a first machine-readable language and that includes information describing a plurality of resources of a first API of a server device. Based at least in part on the first discovery document, the client device executes a first set of instructions represented in a second machine-readable language that is different from the first machine-readable language, to generate a first library that includes instructions represented in the second machine-readable language and that enables the client device to interface with at least one of the plurality of resources of the first API.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a client device application, a first discovery document that is represented in a first machine-readable language and that includes:
information describing a plurality of resources of an application programming interface (API) of a server device; anddetails regarding how to access the plurality of resources of the API via representational state transfer (RESTful) hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) calls; and generating, at runtime of the application, a library containing objects and methods, the library is built by:
recursively descending over the received machine-readable discovery document to identify at least one resource in the plurality of resource of the API;composing at least one request to obtain the at least one resource of the plurality of resources of the API via a RESTful HTTP call; anddeserializing a response from the at least one request into a second machine-readable programming language.