Automated translation of service invocations for batch processing

• US 8,364,750 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bolognese, Luca, Hoban, Lucas James, Meijer, Erik, Hejlsberg, Anders, Warren, Matthew J., Kulkarni, Dinesh Chandrakant, Torgersen, Mads, Dyer, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): DAILEY, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US12/144,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20090319497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,680 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 707/999.101, 717/136
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services

Abstract

The utilization of data services (such as web services) may involve the invocation of services, which may reduce performance and overburden the server. In some scenarios, the invocation may be specified in a language that does not support batch invocation, but it may not be feasible to re-code the invocations in a language that supports batching. Instead, the service invocations may be automatically translated into a batch logic specified in a batch-capable language and sent to the service as a batch. For example, a local proxy may receive a language-integrated query having two or more service invocations, compile the query into an expression tree including the two or more invocations, and send the expression tree to the service host to achieve the batch processing of the service invocations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of invoking services of a service host the method comprising:

upon receiving a first logic comprising a language integrated query and at least two service invocations specified in a first language that does not support a batching of service invocations;

translating respective service invocations in the first language into translated service invocations specified in a second language that supports the batching of service invocations and translating the language integrated query into an expression tree specified in the second language,

wherein the expression tree comprises at least one lambda expression generated from the first logic;

generating a batch logic specified in the second language and comprising the at least two service invocations of the service; and

sending the batch logic to the service host.

2. The method of claim 1:

the first logic referencing at least one local object, and

the translating comprising;

representing the at least one local object in the batch logic.

3. The method of claim 1, the sending comprising:

sending the batch logic to a local proxy configured to send the batch logic to the service host.

4. The method of claim 3:

the local proxy providing a querying interface configured to produce the batch logic specified in the second language, and

the generating comprising;

invoking the querying interface of the local proxy with the translated service invocations.

5. The method of claim 3, the sending comprising:

sending an asynchronous callback with the batch logic to the local proxy.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a service invocation result from the service host in response to the batch logic.

7. The method of claim 6, the receiving comprising:

generating at least one local object of the first language comprising at least one element of the service invocation result.

8. The method of claim 7, respective local objects corresponding to a record in the service invocation result.

9. The method of claim 7, the at least one local object comprising a querying interface configured to access properties of the local object.

10. The method of claim 6, the receiving comprising:

storing at least one element of the service invocation result in at least one local object of the first language.

11. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed on a processor of a device, cause the device to invoke services of a service host by:

upon receiving a first logic comprising a language integrated query and at least two service invocations specified in a first language that does not support a batching of service invocations;

translating respective service invocations in the first language into translated service invocations specified in a second language that supports the batching of service invocations and translating the language integrated query into an expression tree specified in the second language,

wherein the expression tree comprises at least one lambda expression generated from the first logic;

generating a batch logic specified in the second language and comprising the at least two service invocations of the service; and

sending the batch logic to the service host.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, comprising:

receiving a service invocation result from the service host in response to the batch logic.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, the receiving comprising:

receiving a service invocation result from the service host before returning from the sending.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13:

the generating comprising;

receiving an asynchronous callback with the first logic;

the sending comprising;

returning from the sending upon sending the logic to the service host; and

the receiving comprising;

invoking the asynchronous callback upon receiving a service invocation result from the service host in response to the batch logic.