Declarative programming model for modeling and execution of triggers for resource oriented system

• US 8,438,295 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2008
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Shukla, Dharma, Bhandarkar, Aditya, Amiga, Ori, Endres, Raymond, Parasnis, Abhay
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US12/250,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20100094926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,666 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/230
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/168 above the transport layer

Abstract

Data sets of various types may be accessible through a host according to a protocol, such as a RESTful HTTP interface. Various domains may involve domain-specific processes to be executed as pre-triggers or post-triggers of various protocol requests (e.g., an HTTP GET request specifying a Read operation on an access-restricted data set may involve an authorization operations set that verifies the access privileges of the requester.) A host of the data set may be configured to receive a resource script expressing the operations set in a script language, to store the resource script, and to associated it with at least one data set and at least one verb of the protocol. Upon later receiving a protocol request specifying the verb and the resource, the host may then execute the resource script (as a pre-trigger and/or as a post-trigger) in accordance with the business logic of the domain.

Claims

1. A method of executing operations sets on data sets accessible through a host having a processor according to a protocol, comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

for a data set and a verb of the protocol associated with an action, associate at least one operations set other than the action with the verb of the protocol and the data set; and

upon receiving a protocol request specifying a verb of the protocol and a data set;

execute the action associated with the verb of the protocol to fulfill the protocol request; and

additionally execute at least one operations set associated with the verb and the data set.

2. The method of claim 1, executing the operations set comprising at least one of:

executing the operations set before executing a verb of the protocol on the data set, and

executing the operations set after executing a verb of the protocol on the data set.

3. The method of claim 1:

the data set comprising a resource represented in a domain, and

the operations set specifying a domain-specific operation on the data set within the domain.

4. The method of claim 1, the data set comprising at least one resource represented in a deployable computing environment hosted by the host.

5. The method of claim 1:

the protocol comprising HTTP;

the verbs of the protocol comprising HTTP POST, HTTP GET, HTTP PUT, and HTTP DELETE; and

the host comprising an HTTP endpoint.

6. The method of claim 1, at least one operations set expressed as a resource script specified in a script language, the resource script comprising:

at least one data set instruction corresponding to at least one verb of the protocol, and

at least one flow control instruction configured to alter an execution flow of the resource script.

7. The method of claim 1, the operations set comprising at least one operation specifying at least one data binding with at least one aspect of the protocol request.

8. The method of claim 1:

the operations set generating a result, and

the method comprising;

receiving the result included in a protocol response returned by the host in response to the protocol request.

9. The method of claim 1:

at least one operations set expressed as a resource script in a script language; and

the receiving comprising;

inspecting the resource script for at least one of;

a script language error, and

a resource script vulnerability; and

upon validating the resource script;

storing the resource script, and

associating the resource script with the verb of the protocol and the data set.

10. A method of executing operations sets on data sets accessible according to a protocol on a host having a processor and a memory, comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

upon receiving a request to associate, with a data set and a verb of the protocol that is associated with an action, an operations set other than the action of the verb;

store the operations set in the memory, and

associate the operations set with the verb of the protocol and the data set; and

upon receiving a protocol request specifying a verb of the protocol and a data set;

execute the action associated with the verb of the protocol to fulfill the protocol request; and

additionally execute at least one operations set associated with the verb and the data set.

11. The method of claim 10, the executing comprising at least one of:

executing the operations set before executing the verb of the protocol on the data set, and

executing the operations set after executing the verb of the protocol on the data set.

12. The method of claim 10:

the operations set comprising a predicate condition of the verb, and

the executing comprising;

executing the operations set before executing the protocol request, and

conditioning executing the protocol request on a fulfilling of the predicate condition of the operations set.

13. The method of claim 10:

the data set comprising a resource represented in a domain, and

the operations set specifying a domain-specific operation on the data set within the domain.

14. The method of claim 10, the data set comprising at least one resource represented in a deployable computing environment.

15. The method of claim 14:

the storing comprising;

storing the operations set in the deployable computing environment; and

the associating comprising;

associating the operations set with the data set in the deployable computing environment.

16. The method of claim 10:

the protocol comprising HTTP;

the verbs of the protocol comprising HTTP POST, HTTP GET, HTTP PUT, and HTTP DELETE; and

the host comprising an HTTP endpoint.

17. The method of claim 10:

at least one operations set expressed as a resource script in a script language; and

the receiving comprising;

inspecting the resource script for at least one of;

a script language error, and

a resource script vulnerability; and

upon validating the resource script;

storing the resource script, and

associating the resource script with the verb of the protocol and the data set.

18. The method of claim 10:

the operations set comprising at least one operation specifying at least one data binding with at least one aspect of the protocol request; and

executing the operations set comprising;

data binding the at least one operation with the at least one aspect of the protocol request.

19. The method of claim 10:

the operations set generating a result, and

the method comprising;

returning the result of the operations set with a protocol response generated in response to the protocol request.

20. A method of executing an operations set specifying a domain-specific operation on a data set comprising a resource represented in a domain in a deployable computing environment hosted by a host having a processor and accessible according to a protocol, comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

express the operations set as a resource script in a declarative script language comprising;

at least one data set instruction corresponding to at least one verb of the protocol, and

at least one flow control instruction configured to alter an execution flow of the resource script,

the resource script comprising at least one data set operation and at least one flow control operation;

associate the data set with at least one verb of the protocol and at least one resource script;

upon receiving a protocol request specifying the verb of the protocol and the data set, at least one of;

execute the at least one resource script before executing a verb of the protocol on the data set, and

execute the at least one resource script after executing a verb of the protocol on the data set; and

receive a result generated by the resource script and included in a protocol response returned by the host in response to the protocol request.