Entity projection
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRyan Munson, Jeffrey Anderson, John Healy, Josh Honeyman
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Abstract
The present invention provides an entity projection in a client. The entity projection is an encapsulation of data, from an owning service, and residing on a consumer of that service. The entity projection provides an abstraction that conforms to an entity programming model on the consumer. The entity projection may illustratively include a subset of the properties of an entity in the owning service, the subset being only those properties required by the entity and those properties desired by the consumer.
Claims20
A consumer of desired data from an owning service that owns the data, comprising:
- an entity projection, local to the consumer, including properties corresponding to the desired data from the service.
A method of accessing data from an owning service, comprising:
- accessing a public data contract for the owning service;
- and
- generating an entity projection from the public data contract, including desired and required properties from an entity in the owning service.
A first service, comprising:
- a plurality of entities that conform to an entity programming model, at least one of the entities being an entity projection based on an entity in a second service, the entity projection being an encapsulation of desired and required data from the entity in the second service, wherein the desired and required data corresponding to the entity projection is stored in a data store corresponding to the first service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.