Converting an API into a graph API

An automated method comprising:

• receiving multiple files, each file of the multiple files comprising a corresponding operation-centric application programming interface (API), and each file including a description of operations performed by the corresponding operation-centric API;
• translating the description for each file into a proxy model that comprises a list of a plurality of the operations performed by the corresponding operation-centric API;
• executing one or more heuristic programs on the proxy model to determine a plurality of entities associated with the list of operations and relationships among the plurality of entities;
• transforming the corresponding operation-centric API into a corresponding graph API, the transforming comprising generating the corresponding graph API based on the plurality of entities and the relationships among the plurality of entities, wherein the corresponding graph API comprises a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of entities and edges between the plurality of nodes representing the relationships between the plurality of entities;
• combining the corresponding graph API with other graph APIs generated from descriptions for other files of the multiple files into a unified graph API;
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• storing the unified graph API in a storage.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause a computer to perform an automated method comprising:

• receiving multiple files, each file of the multiple files comprising a corresponding operation-centric application programming interface (API), and each file including a description of operations performed by the corresponding operation-centric API;
• translating each file into a proxy model that comprises a list of the operations performed by the corresponding operation-centric API, the list of the operations being determined from the description of the operations;
• determining a plurality of entities associated with the list of operations performed by the corresponding operation-centric API and relationships among the plurality of entities via execution of one or more heuristics on the proxy model;
• transforming the corresponding operation-centric API into a corresponding graph API, the transforming comprising generating the corresponding graph API based on the plurality of entities and the relationships among the plurality of entities, wherein the corresponding graph API comprises a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of entities and edges between the plurality of nodes representing the relationships between the plurality of entities;
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• integrating the corresponding graph API with other graph APIs generated from other files of the multiple files into a unified graph API within storage.