System and method for generic configuration management system application programming interface

• US 10,158,529 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2016
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Vergara, Jeaneth, Dodeja, Vivek
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Randy A
• Application Number:
  US15/376,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 709217, 709221, 709226, 709250, 717173, 717174, 717178
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0866 Checking the configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The technology disclosed can query configuration management system data and includes cross table selection criteria and joined data return.

Claims

1. A method for providing dynamic configuration in an environment having one or more interconnected electronic computing devices utilizing dynamic configuration hierarchies, the method comprising:

automatically providing, with an application server utilizing one or more hardware processors, version information for a resource within the environment;

scanning, with the one or more hardware processors, class metadata for the resource including at least the version information via an application program interface (API), wherein the API is modeled as a resource and is invoked using a HTTP command;

checking fields, with the one or more hardware processors, for the resource that are only accessible via an API version that is supported by the resource and that fields that are deprecated are not accessible via the API after a corresponding API version in which the deprecated fields are not supported, wherein deprecation information is maintained at a resource level and at a field level;

storing the class metadata for the resource in a repository in a hardware storage device; and

making an update API call, with the one or more hardware processors, to update a device object by updating a host object with embedded device information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the HTTP command comprises at least one of:

POST, GET, PUT and DELETE.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the update API call functions to add one or more network interfaces for the host object.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the update API call functions to delete one or more network interfaces for the host object.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the application server and the server computing device are both part of an on-demand services environment.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the on-demand services environment comprises a multitenant database environment.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, are configurable to cause the one or more processors to:

automatically provide, with an application server utilizing one or more hardware processors, version information for a resource within the environment;

scan, with the one or more hardware processors, class metadata for the resource including at least the version information via an application program interface (API), wherein the API is modeled as a resource and is invoked using a HTTP command;

check fields, with the one or more hardware processors, for the resource that are only accessible via an API version that is supported by the resource and that fields that are deprecated are not accessible via the API after a corresponding API version in which the deprecated fields are not supported, wherein deprecation information is maintained at a resource level and at a field level;

store the class metadata for the resource in a repository in a hardware storage device; and

make an update API call, with the one or more hardware processors, to update a device object by updating a host object with embedded device information.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the HTTP command comprises at least one of:

POST, GET, PUT and DELETE.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the update API call functions to add one or more network interfaces for the host object.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the update API call functions to delete one or more network interfaces for the host object.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the application server and the server computing device are both part of an on-demand services environment.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the on-demand services environment comprises a multitenant database environment.

13. A system comprising:

a physical memory device;

one or more processors coupled with the physical memory device, the one or more processors configurable to automatically provide, with an application server utilizing one or more hardware processors, version information for a resource within the environment, to scan, with the one or more hardware processors, class metadata for the resource including at least the version information via an application program interface (API), wherein the API is modeled as a resource and is invoked using a HTTP command, to check fields, with the one or more hardware processors, for the resource that are only accessible via an API version that is supported by the resource and that fields that are deprecated are not accessible via the API after a corresponding API version in which the deprecated fields are not supported, wherein deprecation information is maintained at a resource level and at a field level, to store the class metadata for the resource in a repository in a hardware storage device, and to make an update API call, with the one or more hardware processors, to update a device object by updating a host object with embedded device information.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the HTTP command comprises at least one of:

POST, GET, PUT and DELETE.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the update API call functions to add one or more network interfaces for the host object.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the update API call functions to delete one or more network interfaces for the host object.

17. The system of claim 13 wherein the system functions to provide an on-demand services environment.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the on-demand services environment comprises a multitenant database environment.