Composing JSON-based
Web APIs
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
{javier.canovas,jordi.cabot}@inria.fr
ICWE Conference
July 2014

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen

Web APIs as main citizen
… a.k.a. JavaScript Object
Notation…
…a text-based open standard
designed for human-readable data
interchange…
…derived from the JavaScript
scripting language for representing
simple data structures and
associative arrays, called
objects…
JSON

Web APIs as main citizen
… a.k.a. JavaScript Object
Notation…
…a text-based open standard
designed for human-readable data
interchange…
…derived from the JavaScript
scripting language for representing
simple data structures and
associative arrays, called
objects…
JSON

Application Example

Application Example
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Application Example
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Our approach

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• Generating the glue code for
the composition
• Ideas from database and
XML-based approaches
Process improvement
• Scalability issues
• Some metrics: effectiveness,
coverage, etc.
Process evaluation

Check it out!
https://github.com/atlanmod/json-discoverer/
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Do you wanna try?