US 9,652,314 B2Granted

Dynamic application programming interface publication for providing web services

AssigneeAlcatel Lucent

InventorPatrice Mahiddini

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically generating and publishing API information for web services, and for informing a requestor for the web services of a correct format of the request. One embodiment comprises an API gateway that identifies a plurality of software code objects for deployment, where the code objects include executable code for performing functions. The API gateway receives a request for a web service from an application, queries a code object for usage information regarding a function to perform the web service, and determines that a format of the request for the web service is incorrect based on the query for the usage information. The API gateway transmits a response to the application that specifies a correct format of the web service request based on the query, and receives a subsequent request from the application that specifies the correct format for the web service request.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

an Application Programming Interface (API) gateway configured to identify a plurality of software code objects for deployment, wherein the code objects include executable code for performing functions to implement web services;
the API gateway further configured to receive a request for a web service from an application, to query at least one code object for usage information regarding at least one function utilized in performing the web service, and to determine that a format of the web service request is incorrect based on the query for the usage information;
the API gateway further configured to transmit a response to the application that specifies a correct format of the web service request based on the query, and to receive a subsequent request for the web service from the application that specifies the correct format;
the API gateway is further configured to receive a request from a subscriber to monitor a category of web services that are available based on code objects deployed by the API gateway, to deploy a new code object for the category, and to notify the subscriber that the new code object for the category is deployed.

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A method comprising:

identifying a plurality of software code objects for deployment, wherein the code objects include executable code for performing functions to implement web services;
receiving a request for a web service from an application;
querying at least one code object for usage information regarding at least one function utilized in performing the web service;
determining that a format of the web service request is incorrect based on the query for the usage information;
transmitting a response to the application that specifies a correct format of the web service request based on the query;
receiving a subsequent request for the web service from the application that specifies the correct format;
receiving a request from a subscriber to monitor a category of web services that are available based on code objects that are deployed;
deploying a new code object for the category;
and notifying the subscriber that the new code object for the category is deployed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.