Cloud Integration Plugin Resolving Form Field Dependencies
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face challenges in seamlessly integrating functionalities of cloud-based automation platforms like VMware Aria Automation with third-party platforms due to complex and nested dependencies between catalog items, inhibiting adoption and integration of multi-cloud configurations.
Innovation Solution
A management node with an integration plugin generates scripts to parse and manage form field dependencies, using APIs to dynamically generate client scripts for appearance, value, and constraint dependencies, enabling seamless integration between cloud-based automation platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If manual integration methods are used to integrate cloud-based automation platforms, then integration accuracy can be maintained, but integration time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service integration by automatically generating client scripts and resolving form field dependencies without requiring manual intervention. The integration plugin autonomously parses API responses, identifies dependency relationships, and configures integrations, allowing the system to integrate itself while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical integration processes with automated script-based systems. Client scripts automatically execute form field dependencies, resolve value constraints, and manage integration configurations, substituting human-operated mechanical processes with automated computational mechanisms.
2Productivity
If automated script generation is implemented, then integration speed improves, but system complexity increases due to nested dependencies
Solution Approach 1:
The integration system segments complex form field dependencies into individual manageable units. Each form field's dependencies are parsed and resolved separately through dedicated client scripts, breaking down the complex nested dependency structure into discrete, independently manageable segments that can be processed automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration plugin acts as an intermediary between the cloud-based automation platforms and the third-party platforms. It mediates the complex dependency relationships by parsing API responses, identifying form field dependencies, and generating appropriate client scripts that resolve these dependencies, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture.
3Reliability
If comprehensive dependency resolution is performed, then integration reliability improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-resolving form field dependencies and generating client scripts before actual integration execution. The integration plugin parses API responses and identifies all dependency relationships in advance, preparing the integration configuration beforehand to ensure reliability while minimizing processing time during actual integration operations.
Data Source
AI summary
An example method may include executing, using an integration plugin installed on a first cloud-based automation platform running in a first management node, a schedule job to obtain an API response from a second management node executing a second cloud-based automation platform. The API response may include a custom form schema of a first form associated with the second cloud-based automation platform in a first defined data format. Further, the method may include parsing the custom form schema to determine form fields and dependency of the form fields. Furthermore, the method may include translating the custom form schema into a second defined data format supported by the first cloud-based automation platform based on the parsed custom form schema. Further, the method may include persisting the translated custom form schema in a database associated with the first cloud-based automation platform.