Shopify Inc.

Jonathan Mitchell Dickinson

David Cameron

Systems and methods of executing multiple scripts at an extension point are provided. If there are multiple scripts that are associated with an extension point for a service instance in a SAAS platform, a script execution schedule is determined. This can indicate the order of execution of the multiple scripts, but may also specify how the inputs and outputs of the multiple script executions are obtained. For example, the inputs for multiple scripts can be the same, and be those provided by the SAAS platform at the extension point. In this case, in effect the multiple scripts are executed independently. Alternatively, the output of one script can function as the input to another script, which requires a certain order of execution. After all of the scripts are executed, output rules are used to determine an overall output of the script execution to be returned the platform through the extension point.

System and method for executing multiple scripts at a single extension point

The provided systems and methods attempt to address possible issues with the use of third party applications with software as a service (SAAS) platforms, namely that lack of performance of third party app hosting infrastructure running the third party applications can affect multiple clients on the SAAS platform. In order to least mitigate this, third party app providers can create and upload their scripts to the SAAS platform for execution on the SAAS platform. The scripts must conform with extension points within SAAS functionality that are predefined. During execution, when the extension point is reached, the script is run on the SAAS platform instead of making an API call to the application on the third party app hosting infrastructure.

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Kitchener, Canada

Jonathan Mitchell Dickinson