US 2023/0403334 A1 · ENHANCED RESTFUL OPERATIONS

Abstract

A batch of CRUD operations can be coupled with the resource discovery operation and directly conducted on the matched resources, without initiating new CRUD requests. New functionality at the Originator and Receiver can differentiate the resources for which criteria matching is applied from the resources included in the discovery/filtering results. Enhanced functionality at the Originator and Receiver can combine discovery with RESTful operations targeting a resource set different than but related the discovered resources. Other enhancements may be used to request discovery of resources in a specified relationship to those matching a filter, or to request group formation based on the result.

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An apparatus for a service providing service capabilities to a plurality of applications via a set of application programming interfaces (APIs), the service being supported as a middleware above an application protocol layer, the apparatus comprising circuitry configured to:

receive a representational state transfer (RESTful) request that comprises a filter criteria and uniform resource identifier (URI) of a target resource hosted at the service;
check whether an originator of the RESTful request has a discovery right for the RESTful request;
query to discover one or more child resources of the target resource that matches the filter criteria, wherein each of the one or more child resources comprise the URI of the target resource and an additional path of the child resource relative to the target resource;
create a group of discovered resources that match the filter criteria, wherein the discovered resources of the group match the filter criteria;
assign a group identifier to the group;
and
send a RESTful response comprising information indicative of the group.

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Enhanced restful operations

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Abstract

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