Best practices for designing sustainability APIs to expose carbon footprint data in SAP PLM

ian_manager
Sat, 07 Jun 2025 22:14:07 +0000

For API versioning with evolving methodologies, we implemented a hybrid approach. The API version indicates the interface contract (fields, structure), while a separate calculation-version parameter in the request specifies which carbon calculation standard to apply (GHG Protocol 2019, ISO 14067:2018, etc.). This lets clients explicitly request data under specific methodologies for comparison purposes. New calculation methods don’t break existing API integrations.