Techniques for supporting remote micro-services as native functions in spreadsheet applications

A method of supporting remote micro-services as native functions within a spreadsheet application, the method comprising:

• requesting, from a cloud service, a schema for each of one or remote more micro-services that are available for use by a user of the spreadsheet application based on credential information associated with the user;
• generating a translation model for each of the one or more remote micro-services based on a corresponding schema,
• wherein each translation model maps between one of the one or more remote micro-services and a skeleton spreadsheet function;
• and
• registering each skeleton spreadsheet function as a native function of the spreadsheet application.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media which, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least:
• access a listing identifying at least one micro-service remotely located in a cloud service platform that is available for use by a user of a spreadsheet application;
• obtain a schema associated with the at least one micro-service;
• generate a translation model based on the schema, wherein the translation model provides a mapping between the at least one micro-service and a skeleton spreadsheet function;
• and
• register the skeleton spreadsheet function as a native function in the spreadsheet application.