Framework for system communication for handling data
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsShashidhar Kannoori, Randy E. Oyarzabal
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Abstract
Techniques for making internal data from a source application available through an application programming interface (“API”). Embodiments may analyze a source application to determine a storage location and a first storage format of internal data, wherein the source application does not provide an API through which the internal data is accessible. Embodiments may then extract the internal data from the storage location, and convert the extracted data from the first storage format to a common storage format. Embodiments may then provide an API to make the converted data available.
Claims8
A computer-implemented method for making data maintained by a source application accessible, comprising:
- analyzing a source application to identify internal data maintained by the source application, wherein the internal data comprises data that is not exposed to any external application via any application programming interface (“API”) provided by the source application, and comprising:
- identifying a location where the source application maintains the internal data;
- and
- determining a first format the source application maintains the internal data in;
- retrieving the data from the identified location;
- converting, by operation of one or more computer processors, the retrieved data from the determined first format to a common format;
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- providing an API for accessing the converted data.
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