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API

An interface through which one piece of software offers operations to another. The API is the interface as a whole. One operation of it is an API endpoint. An API is not a service, though a service may be reached through one, and it is not a deployment of the software that offers it.

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Definition

What API means

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Synonyms

enapplication programming interface

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Used in data

In OVDB databases

Databases, recordsets and fields whose meaning is this concept, a kind of it, or whose values are instances of it. Rows open the OVDB Directory.

No OVDB database carries this concept yet.

Properties

What we can say about API

These properties describe meanings and reference targets. Storage types, required fields, and cardinality belong to the consuming data model.

Property	Meaning	Values and units
API software component	The software component that offers this interface.	Values reference Software component

In the graph

Related concepts

Attributes, measures and parts of it

EntityAPI endpoint

One operation of an API. Where the API uses HTTP, the operation has a method and a path. The endpoint is not the API as a whole and not a deployment.

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Concepts whose values are instances of it

AttributeAPI endpoint API

The API this operation belongs to.

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