See application programming interface.
a set of software functions that facilitate communication between applications and other types of programs or services.
a job flow that is executed in a batch mode. The request might contain input values for the job. The response contains a jobId, which the client can use to interrogate the server about the status of that job execution instance.
an XML document on the DataFlux Data Management Server that contains the details of all the nodes or steps that compose a particular DataFlux Data Management job flow. It contains the nodes' configuration options and connections, as well as the job flow's input and output variables or tables.
the loading and execution of a job flow (after inputs are received) by the DataFlux Data Management Platform job flow processing engine. As data flows through the nodes, the data is transformed or augmented, as the nodes of the job flow dictate. The job flow execution might or might not result in the generation of output data.
a system-assigned unique ID for a job flow. This ID can be of variable length, and contains only characters that are valid for a URL. In the members list for a media type, this is simply called id.
a system-assigned unique ID for a job flow execution instance.
an open standard format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute�value pairs. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.
a job flow that is executed in a real-time service mode, where the request contains input data and the response contains output data.
a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. REST has emerged as a predominant web API design model.
See representational state transfer.
refers to a hypertext-driven web API that is implemented with HTTP and the principles of REST.
a persistent application domain object on the web, typically addressed by a URL and transferred between client and server via representations.
a string that identifies resources such as files, images, and services on the World Wide Web. A URL is a type of URI.