Composing JSON-based Web APIs

Composing JSON-based Web APIs

Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot

{javier.canovas,jordi.cabot}@inria.fr

ICWE ConferenceJuly 2014

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

JSO

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JSO

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JSO

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Web APIs as main citizen

JSO

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… a.k.a. JavaScript Object Notation…

…a text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange…

…derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects…

JSON

Web APIs as main citizen

JSO

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JSO

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JSO

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… a.k.a. JavaScript Object Notation…

…a text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange…

…derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects…

JSON

Schemaless

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Application Example

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Our approach

Not enough…

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• Generating the glue code for the composition

• Ideas from database and XML-based approaches

Process improvement

• Scalability issues• Some metrics: effectiveness,

coverage, etc.

Process evaluation

Check it out!https://github.com/atlanmod/json-discoverer/

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