公开(公告)号：US20190188288A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US15847811

申请日：2017-12-19

Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.

Inventor： Mitchell G. HOLM ,  Ryan D. WOEBKENBERG ,  Vinesh MANI

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F9/44

CPC classification number: G06F16/211 ,  G06F8/30 ,  G06F8/315 ,  G06F16/289

Abstract: Implementations of the invention generate a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schema for an application programming interface (API) endpoint that is not documented in a machine understandable schema. In one implementation, a plurality of JSON payloads that were successfully requested using a same endpoint are automatically obtained, and a composite payload is automatically created based on the plurality of JSON payloads that were obtained. Then a JSON schema that documents the API endpoint is automatically generated based on the composite payload. The generating comprises for each field of the composite payload, determining whether the field is optional or mandatory based on a number of the data items that are in the composite payload for the field, and determining a data type of the field based on the data items in the composite payload for the field.