US 2019/0095256 A1Published application

Controlling runtime access to application program interfaces

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsMircea Trofin, Patrick Dussud, Rudi Martin, John Lawrence Hamby, Michal Strehovsky, David Charles Wrighton, Atsushi Kanamori, Fadi M. Hanna

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Abstract

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling runtime access to application programming interfaces Embodiments of the invention allow library developers to more precisely and easily control which of their libraries' APIs can be called dynamically. Thus, their servicing and versioning burden can be more appropriately controlled. Further, application developers can control which such APIs to further exclude from dynamic calling scenarios, to minimize the runtime support overhead (e.g., preventing generation of metadata).

Claims1

Dependent claims

A system, the system comprising:

a processor;
system memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions configured to cause the processor to:
determine that a default visibility into a programming interface is to be altered, the default visibility defining other software components that can access the programming interface at runtime based at least in part on a type of the programming interface;
and
attach an additional attribute to the programming interface to override the default visibility into the programming interface, the additional attribute indicating that runtime dynamic access requests to the programming interface are to be evaluated using the additional attribute.

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Facts

Application: 15/709,460Filed 19 Sep 2017
Priority: 22 Apr 2013
Published: 28 Mar 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 9/541
Interprogram communication: via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
G06F 8/31
Creation or generation of source code: programming languages or programming paradigms
G06F 8/315
Programming languages or programming paradigms: object-oriented languages
G06F 9/448
Arrangements for executing specific programs: execution paradigms, e.g. implementations of programming paradigms

Family

Application13/867,143Continuation · filed 22 Apr 2013
Application14/636,196Continuation · filed 3 Mar 2015
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