Ever wanted to know why SAP uses OData?
Then you should check out the following video on YouTube: SAP Uses OData - YouTube Well invested 2:45 minutes. Best Regards,Andre
View ArticleSAP Gateway and OData in a nutshell
The following video on YouTube provides a nice and comprehensive high level overview of SAP Gateway and OData. So if you want to explain to somebody what SAP Gateway and OData are in just 1:45 minutes...
View ArticleConsume Odata Service in ABAP CL_HTTP_CLIENT->CREATE_BY_DESTINATION
This blog would have not been possible, but for the awesome community that is SCN. I would like to thank every contributor ever for helping me out in my hours of need!. I had tremendous help in...
View ArticleCode snippet for adding annotations to your Gateway Service
Now that annotations are making UI5 development easier by using Smart controls, it is important to learn how to add these annotations to your service. SEGW does not yet allow you to add most of the...
View ArticleReal life example of upgrading a 3-tier NetWeaver Gateway landscape
Introduction This blog shares our experience of upgrading a 3-tier NetWeaver Gateway landscape, pointing out the challenges we faced and how we were able to solve them. Source Landscape Existing 3-tier...
View ArticleSlacking Off (1 of 3)
(This is part 1 of a 3 part series. See Part 2 and Part 3 for the whole story.) Did you ever have a late night instant message conversation that went something like this: It’s no fun to be in that...
View ArticleSlacking Off (2 of 3)
(This is Part 2 of a 3 part series. See Part 1 and Part 3 for the whole story.)In Part 1, we got Slack up and running with a Slash Command that will send an HTTP POST to a specified URL endpoint. In...
View ArticleSlacking Off (3 of 3)
(This is Part 3 of a 3 part series. See Part 1 and Part 2 for the whole story.)In the last 2 posts we paved the way to get some data out of SAP from Slack. First, we set up Slack to send out a request...
View ArticleMaintain Data Concurrency in OData
Introduction More than one user has access to the same entity and hence the same data in SAP Fiori applications. So how to prevent parallel edit access for users so as to prevent the data from being...
View ArticleHow to expose Gateway Services via HCI OData Provisioning, and secure them...
There is already a very fine blog from Martin Bachmann explaining HANA Cloud Platform, the benefits of cloud and HCI Odata Provisioning in general, as well as the scenario for connecting SAP HCI OData...
View ArticleHow to expose Gateway Services via HCI OData Provisioning, and secure them...
This is a continuation from Part 1 where we walk-through setting up HCI OData Provisioning on HANA Cloud Platform against SAP Developer Center'ss ES4 Gateway system. If you haven't already completed...
View ArticleMaking your SAP Gateway work smarter not harder : 1) Developing Re-Use Patterns
IntroductionAs SAP customers, partners and consultants embark on their journey to designing and building your own Fiori style applications a major part of this journey will be building your own RESTful...
View ArticleHow $expand Influences the Importing Parameters of GET_ENTITYSET in SAP Gateway
Did you know that the method parameter IV_SOURCE_NAME of GET_ENTITYSET has different values depending on whether the service is triggered with or without $expand? This also applies to the parameter...
View ArticleMake your SAP Gateway Work Smarter not Harder – Part 1.2 ) Search Patterns...
Introduction Part 1 of this series can be found here if you have not seen it yet: https://scn.sap.com/community/gateway/blog/2016/04/08/making-your-sap-gateway-work-smarter-not-harder-re-use-patternsa...
View ArticleExploring Multiple Origin using System ID and Client
While working with Multi Origin in service URL we have to pass additional parameter SAP_Origin (i.e. nothing but your system alias pointing to corresponding ECC) in filter and Get entity operation....
View ArticleWhy not build fewer, more useful OData services?
Do you ever have the feeling that you are missing something obvious?The present It seems to me that the current orthodoxy is that an OData service should be developed for each UI5 app. In other words,...
View ArticleODATA SERVICE FOR PURCHASE REQUISITION CREATION
step1) Open TCode SEGW and create a project as shown in below screen shot.Provide the following details Then the components like 1. Data Model 2. Service Implementation 3. Runtime Artifacts4. Service...
View ArticleElementary load testing of SAP Gateway oData services using cURL
IntroductionProbably everyone understands the need to perform load testing of applications and services. Usually it comes down to how much time and money one can spend in doing that. This blog gives a...
View ArticleHow to apply range table in integration between Gateway and Hana View
Issue:In integration between GW and hana view, hana view will provide input parameter as filter for one field, normally the input parameter accept one value. Issue is how to handle the filter has...
View ArticleOData service development with SAP Gateway - code-based service development -...
Introduction In this blog I would like to show the basics of OData service development with SAP Gateway when using code based service implementation as it is shown in the upcoming SAP CodeJam events...
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