[devit]

I think "ObjectQL" or "NestedRPC" might be more appropriate: it's an IDL and protocol for a nested RPC facility for object-oriented systems.

You start with a root query object and then call a bunch of methods on it of the client's choice and put the results in a dictionary.

Then you do that recursively on the resulting objects until you have data consisting of nested dictionaries and lists containing only primitives, which is finally serialized as JSON and returned.