The Foundry platform software development kits (SDKs) are libraries designed to simplify building applications that interact with Foundry APIs. These platform SDKs provide a set of tools and utilities that abstract the complexity of the underlying APIs, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than technical specifics.
Just like platform SDKs provide abstractions on top of Foundry APIs, Ontology SDKs (OSDKs) provide further abstractions on top of platform SDKs.
Platform SDKs are generic libraries that can be used with any Foundry enrollment to interact with all Foundry APIs, including the Ontology. When building an application that involves reading and writing Ontology data, however, you may find that the generic libraries provided by platform SDKs are too low-level, and it would be preferable to interact directly with the objects and Actions defined in your Ontology.
OSDKs are specialized libraries that are generated in your Foundry enrollment, and include code that provides a more intuitive interface for working with the Ontology. For example, if you have an Ontology with an object type called Employee, an OSDK would provide a class called Employee with methods to interact with the Employee object type.
Use the platform SDKs if any of the following apply:
Use an Ontology SDK if:
The platform SDK is currently available in the following languages: