Integration Architecture — Proposed Guide

Planned API — Reference Only

Integration Architecture: An integration design would separate provider adapters, source-record mappings and reconciliation logic. This makes a provider…

Overview

An integration design would separate provider adapters, source-record mappings and reconciliation logic. This makes a provider failure distinguishable from a business validation failure.

Key concepts

Use durable correlation ids and explicit ownership boundaries. Keep connection credentials outside resource representations.

Implementation considerations

The architecture is illustrative. No adapter, queue, scheduler or network service is created by these pages.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

JSON fixture

Fictional concept fixture

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "Integration Architecture",
  "integration_id": "integration_example_123",
  "sync_id": "sync_example_123",
  "mapping_version": 1,
  "external_id": "external_example_123"
}

Design review checklist

Document which organization owns the integration architecture representation and which actor may view or change it.
Test the boundaries of integration id, sync id, mapping version, external id using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

Illustrative field dictionary
Name	Type	Description
integration_id	string	Stable fictional integration reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
sync_id	string	Stable fictional sync reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
mapping_version	integer	Revision of the source-to-target field transformation used for this representation.
external_id	string	Fictional source/provider correlation value, not a credential or proof of synchronization.

Integrations Overview

Integrations

Integration Authentication