Device Common Model Interface

A method for generating a target-specific data model for a resource in a fabric network, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a computing device, a schema describing the resource in the fabric network;
• translating, by the computing device, the received schema into the target-specific data model, the translating using an application environment specification of a target application environment and a communication protocol specification, the target-specific data model comprising an Application Programming Interface (API) specific to the target application environment and a communication protocol specified by the communication protocol specification;
• extracting elements of the received schema that are usable by an application that communicates with the resource using an interface of the resource;
• based on the extracting the elements, generating a common object model in which the extracted elements are presented for an application developer, independent of the communication protocol;
• and
• providing the target-specific data model to the application that interacts with the interface of the resource by using the API of the target-specific data model to perform operations that are specific to communicating with the interface of the resource in the target application environment and using the communication protocol.

A computer-readable memory device comprising instructions executable by a computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a schema describing a resource in a fabric network;
• translating the received schema into a target-specific data model, the translating using an application environment specification of a target application environment and a communication protocol specification, the target-specific data model comprising an Application Programming Interface (API) specific to the target application environment and a communication protocol specified by the communication protocol specification;
• extracting elements of the received schema that are usable by an application that communicates with the resource using an interface of the resource;
• based on the extracting the elements, generating a common object model in which the extracted elements are presented for an application developer, independent of the communication protocol;
• and
• providing the target-specific data model to the application that application interacts with the interface of the resource by using the API of the target-specific data model to perform operations that are specific to communicating with the interface of the resource in the target application environment and using the communication protocol.