Method and system for allowing access to developed applications via a multi-tenant on-demand database service

• US 10,176,337 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2016
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Weissman, Craig
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Jason D
• Application Number:
  US15/134,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20160314313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 717124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3604 Software analysis for verifying properties of programs byte-code verification G06F9/44589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for allowing access to developed applications via a multi-tenant on-demand database service, in a controlled environment. These mechanisms and methods for providing such access can enable embodiments to provide additional control over the development process as well as the access of such developed applications. The ability of embodiments to provide such additional control may lead to an improved application development framework, etc.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer instructions stored thereon that are capable of causing a computer system to perform operations comprising:

maintaining a set of applications developed by a plurality of developers, wherein ones of the set of applications interact with a database system;

in response to an update to a functionality of the database system, determining whether ones of the set of applications comply with a plurality of quality rules;

in response to a determination that a first one of the set of applications does comply with the plurality of quality rules, making the first application accessible to one or more users of the database system; and

in response to a determination that a second one of the set of applications does not comply with one or more of the plurality of quality rules, making the second application accessible to the one or more users, but limiting functionality of the second application and providing information to a corresponding developer of the second application that indicates a manner of noncompliance with the plurality of quality rules, wherein limiting the functionality of the second application includes limiting one or more resources of the database system available to the second application.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of quality rules includes a resource requirement threshold for the set of applications.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the determination that the first application does comply with the plurality of quality rules includes a determination that the first application does not exceed a resource requirement threshold.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the limiting functionality of the second application includes limiting access by the second application to one or more databases of the database system.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the limiting functionality of the second application includes terminating related code for the second application corresponding to the manner of noncompliance with the plurality of quality rules.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein storing applications developed by the plurality of developers comprises:

receiving one or more instructions from the plurality of developers;

compiling the one or more instructions; and

storing the compiled one or more instructions in a database of the database system.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a request for access to the first application from a user of the database system; and

retrieving, from the database system, the compiled one or more instructions corresponding to the first application.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the determining whether the first and second applications comply with a plurality of quality rules includes requiring one or more functional test for each application.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of quality rules requires that an execution of one or more tests associated with a received application satisfies a threshold amount of code coverage with respect to the received application.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more resources include a number of queries that can be sent to the database system within a predetermined timeframe.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more resources include a number of data rows that can be returned by a query sent to the database system.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving one or more code segments of an application from a developer, wherein the application utilizes one or more databases of an on-demand database service;

storing the one or more code segments of the application in one of the one or more databases of the on-demand database service;

in response to a modification to underlying code of the on-demand database service, analyzing the one or more code segments of the application to determine whether one or more aspects of the application comply with one or more quality rules;

receiving a request for access to the application from a user of the on-demand database service; and

in response to a determination that the one or more aspects of the application do not comply with the one or more quality rules, providing the user with access to the application, but limiting functionality of the application by limiting one or more resources of the on-demand database service available to the application.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein limiting functionality of the application includes limiting access by the application to at least one of the one or more databases of the on-demand database service.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more quality rules include a maximum resource allocation for the application.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the limiting functionality of the application further includes limiting a number of outbound service calls that can be made per request.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer instructions stored thereon that are capable of causing operations comprising:

storing one or more code segments for an application from a developer, wherein the one or more code segments, when executed, interact with a multi-tenant database system;

in response to a change to a functionality of the multi-tenant database system, analyzing one or more aspects of the application, based on the one or more code segments, to determine whether the one or more aspects comply with one or more quality rules; and

in response to a determination that the one or more aspects of the application do not comply with the one or more quality rules, providing access to the application to one or more users of the multi-tenant database system, but limiting functionality of the application by limiting one or more resources of the multi-tenant database system available to the application.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the limiting functionality of the application further includes limiting a number of electronic mail that can be sent to other systems by the application per request.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the analyzing the one or more aspects of the application includes determining whether an amount of resources of the multi-tenant database system utilized by the application exceeds a resource requirement threshold.