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Model driven {json:api} & GraphQL web services for CRUD and Analytics.

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Elide is a Java library that enables you to stand up JSON API or GraphQL web services in 4 simple steps.

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How to use it

• CRUD
• Analytics

1. Define a model

Define a JPA annotated model including relationships to other models using Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM languages.

2. Secure It

Control access to fields and entities through a declarative, intuitive permission syntax.

3. Expose It

Make instances of your new model accessible through a top level collection or restrict access only through relationships to other models

4. Deploy & Query

And thats it - you are ready to deploy and query your data with JSON or GraphQL requests.

1. Define a model

Define an analytic model including tables, measures, dimensions, and joins with a friendly HJSON configuration language.

2. Secure It

Control access to fields and entities through a declarative, intuitive permission syntax.

3. Connect It

Connect your models to one or more data sources.

4. Deploy & Query

And thats it - you are ready to deploy and query your data with JSON or GraphQL requests.

Want to learn more?

Documentation

Or see our features below

Features

Production Quality

Quickly build and deploy production quality web services that expose your data as a service. Elide APIs support complex filtering rules, sorting, pagination, subscriptions, and text search.

Security Comes Standard

Controlling access to your data is as simple as defining your rules and annotating your models.

Mobile Friendly

Fetch entire object graphs in a single round trip. Subscribe to changes in your data model in realtime. Only requested elements of the data model are returned.

Single Atomic Request

Elide supports multiple data model mutations in a single request in either JSON-API or GraphQL. Create objects, add them to relationships, modify or delete together in a single atomic request.

Analytic Queries

Elide supports analytic queries against models crafted with its powerful semantic layer. Elide APIs work natively with Yavin to visualize, explore, and report on your data.

Open API

Explore, understand, and compose queries against your Elide API through generated OpenAPI documentation or GraphQL schema.

Customize

Customize the behavior of data model operations with computed attributes, data validation annotations, and request lifecycle hooks.

Storage Agnostic

Elide is agnostic to your particular persistence strategy. Use an ORM or provide your own implementation of a data store.

Open Source

Elide is 100% open source and available on Github. Released under the commercial-friendly Apache License, Version 2.0.

Opinionated APIs for web & mobile

Improve the velocity and quality of your team's work.

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Documentation Licensing

Community

Releases

Github