US 11,531,683 B2Granted

Unified application programming interface for transformation of structured data

AssigneeServiceNow, Inc.

InventorsKhosrow Jian Motamedi, Fernando Ros

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Abstract

A system includes a processor configured to create a rule repository instance. The rule repository instance specifies a plurality of different procedures that facilitate specifying a sequence of transformer rules by cascading each of the procedures together using a dot notation format. The processor configures the rule repository instance with a plurality of transformer rules using the dot notation format. The processor receives data from a file arranged according to a first structured data format. The processor executes the sequence of transformer rules to convert data elements in the file to a second structured data format. The processor then provides for display or storage the data as converted into the second structured data format by the sequence of transformer rules.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory in communication with the processor, storing instruction code executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform operations that include:
creating a rule repository instance, wherein the rule repository instance specifies a plurality of different procedures that facilitate specifying a sequence of transformer rules, wherein the sequence of transformer rules is specified by cascading the procedures together using a dot notation format;
configuring the rule repository instance with a plurality of transformer rules specified by a set of the procedures that are cascaded together using the dot notation format, wherein each of the transformer rules specifies (i) a set of data elements that are arranged according to a first structured data format, (ii) structural changes to be performed on the set of data elements that convert the set of data elements into a second structured data format, and wherein the plurality of transformer rules comprises:
a first transformer rule that applies an adapter of a plurality of adapters, wherein the adapter modifies values of the set of data elements;
and
a second transformer rule that does not apply any adapter of the plurality of adapters;
associating a transformer class instance with (i) the rule repository instance, and (ii) a file arranged according to the first structured data format;
controlling, via a first procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a second procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to apply the adapter to modify the values of the data elements in the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a third procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the second transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
and
providing, from the transformer class instance, data as converted into the second structured data format by the sequence of transformer rules.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

creating a rule repository instance, wherein the rule repository instance specifies a plurality of different procedures that facilitate specifying a sequence of transformer rules, wherein the sequence of transformer rules is specified by cascading the procedures together using a dot notation format;
configuring the rule repository instance with a plurality of transformer rules specified by a set of the procedures that are cascaded together using the dot notation format, wherein each of the transformer rules specifies (i) a set of data elements that are arranged according to a first structured data format, (ii) structural changes to be performed on the set of data elements that convert the set of data elements into a second structured data format, and wherein the plurality of transformer rules comprises:
a first transformer rule that applies an adapter of a plurality of adapters, wherein the adapter modifies values of the set of data elements;
and
a second transformer rule that does not apply any adapter of the plurality of adapters;
associating a transformer class instance with (i) the rule repository instance, and (ii) a file arranged according to the first structured data format;
controlling, via a first procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a second procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to apply the adapter to modify the values of the data elements in the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a third procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the second transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
and
providing, from the transformer class instance, data as converted into the second structured data format by the sequence of transformer rules.

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An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

creating a rule repository instance, wherein the rule repository instance specifies a plurality of different procedures that facilitate specifying a sequence of transformer rules, wherein the sequence of transformer rules is specified by cascading the procedures together using a dot notation format;
configuring the rule repository instance with a plurality of transformer rules specified by a set of the procedures that are cascaded together using the dot notation format, wherein each of the transformer rules specifies (i) a set of data elements that are arranged according to a first structured data format, (ii) structural changes to be performed on the set of data elements that convert the set of data elements into a second structured data format, and wherein the plurality of transformer rules comprises:
a first transformer rule that applies an adapter of a plurality of adapters, wherein the adapter modifies values of the set of data elements;
and
a second transformer rule that does not apply any adapter of the plurality of adapters;
associating a transformer class instance with (i) the rule repository instance, and (ii) a file arranged according to the first structured data format;
controlling, via a first procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a second procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to apply the adapter to modify the values of the data elements in the file according to the first transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
controlling, via a third procedure of the transformer class instance, the transformer class instance to perform the structural changes to the file according to the second transformer rule of the rule repository instance;
and
providing, from the transformer class instance, data as converted into the second structured data format by the sequence of transformer rules.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.