Method and system for updating network application program interface

Abstract

The invention provides a method and system for updating a network application program interface. The method includes the steps that in an updating starting stage, second definition information corresponding to an updated version of a Web API is generated, the second definition information is stored in a database, and first definition information corresponding to an original version of the Web API is stored in the database; in the updating on-line test stage, publish state information in the second definition information is updated so that the updated version of the Web API can be marked in a current on-line test state; in an updating publishing stage, the publish state information in the second definition information is updated so that the updated version of the Web API can be marked in a current published state, and if the Web API is updated compatibly, publish state information in the first definition information is updated so that the original version of the Web API can be marked to be expired in the updating publishing stage. The method and system simultaneously support compatible updating and incompatible updating, isolation and automatic switching of the Web API in an on-line test environment and in an on-line formal environment can be achieved.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the Internet field, in particular to a method and system for upgrading a network application program interface. Background technique [0002] In the field of open platforms, once the Web API (Web Application Programming Interface) is released online, it will be called by a large number of external applications, and the released Web API will inevitably need to be upgraded due to reasons such as new functions or bug fixes. However, Upgrading the published Web API will bring the following three problems: 1) For compatibility upgrade, how to achieve transparency to external applications, that is, without forcing external applications to change the original Web API calling method , make the compatibility upgrade take effect automatically, and at the same time, for the internal gateway, it can also distinguish the Web API before and after the compatibility upgrade, so as to do different internal processing; 2) For non-compa...

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[0002] In the field of open platforms, once the Web API (Web Application Programming Interface) is released online, it will be called by a large number of external applications, and the released Web API will inevitably need to be upgraded due to reasons such as new functions or bug fixes. However, Upgrading the published Web API will bring the following three problems: 1) For compatibility upgrade, how to achieve transparency to external applications, that is, without forcing external applications to change the original Web API calling method , make the compatibility upgrade take effect automatically, and at the same time, for the internal gateway, it can also distinguish the Web API before and after the compatibility upgrade, so as to do different internal processing; 2) For non-compatibility upgrades, how to achieve The isolation of the Web API does not affect the normal operation of those external applications that have called the Web API before the upgrade, and at the same time, the external application can choose whether to call the Web API after the upgrade; 3) How to do online testing The Web API isolation and switching between the environment and the online official environment, that is, in the online test environment, the upgraded Web API can be tested and verified using online real requests, while the online official environment still uses the upgraded Web API during the test period. The previous Web API, after the test passes the release, the Web API used in the online official environment will automatically switch to the upgraded version

Afterwards, since a user can have multiple email addresses, the Web API is upgraded for non-compatibility, and the email address attribute is changed to the list type {“email”:[“xxxx.com”, “yyyx.com”]}, Then it will break the operation of the application that originally used the property in the string form

[0006] At the same time, since the online test environment and the online official environment use the same data, after using the above three methods to upgrade the Web API, it will immediately affect the online test environment and the online official environment at the same time, so the online test environment cannot be achieved. Web API isolation between the online test environment and the online official environment. Once the upgraded Web API causes serious defects, it will have a great impact on the online official environment.

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