ELeCTRA: Induced Usage Limitations Calculation in RESTful APIs

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As software architecture design is evolving to microservice paradigms, RESTful APIs become the building blocks of applications. In such a scenario, a growing market of APIs is proliferating and developers face the challenges to take advantage of this reality. For example, third-party APIs typically define different usage limitations depending on the purchased Service Level Agreement (SLA) and, consequently, performing a manual analysis of external APIs and their impact in a microservice architecture is a complex and tedious task. In this demonstration paper, we present ELeCTRA, a tool to automate the analysis of induced usage limitations in an API, derived from its usage of external APIs. This tool takes the structural, conversational and SLA specifications of the API, generates a visual dependency graph and translates the problem into a constraint satisfaction optimization problem (CSOP) to obtain the optimal usage limitations.

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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2015-70560-R

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Junta de Andalucía P12–TIC–1867

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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2014-53986-REDT

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Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte FPU15/02980

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