SAP API Management
Unit 3: Getting Started
Andreas Krause
November 2017
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Objectives
After completing this unit, you will be able to:
- Understand from an end-to-end demo how an SAP API Management implementation
could look like
- Connect and enable SAP API Management on SAP HANA Cloud Platform trial
- Connect to a public SAP Gateway system and consume an OData service
- Expose this service via SAP API Management
- Test the service in a browser
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A First End-to-End Flow
High Level Overview of Component / Flow
API Key Access
Caching SAP WebIDE
Verification Control
OAuth 2.0
Quota CORS
URL Masking
Handling Handling
Native Mobile App
Backend Dynamic Content
Authentication
Spike Arrest Routing
(using SMP SDK)
Protocol Custom Error SAML
Transformation Messages Authentication
PHP / Web App
Identity Provider
SAP HANA Cloud Connector HCP ODP / GWaaS
BASIC Auth.
X.509 SAML
OData Service OData Service SOAP Service
Non-SAP
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End-to-End Flow
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Getting Started
Build your first very simple API Proxy
Build your first very simple API Proxy
✓ Register & log on to HCP Trial
✓ Activate SAP API Management
✓ Register & connect to public SAP
Gateway ES4
✓ Create a simple API Proxy
Register & Log on to HCP Trial
SAP HANA Cloud Platform Trial
https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/
What is the HCP Cockpit?
The cockpit is a web-based user interface for
deploying, running, and managing your web
applications and connecting them with services on
the HANA cloud platform.
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Activate SAP API Management
SAP API Management
One of the services available on HCP is SAP API
Management.
Once activated the API Portal and the Dev Portal
can be accessed
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Register & Connect to SAP Gateway System
SAP Gateway is one tool to expose SAP
business data via OData.
A public SAP Gateway system is available at
https://sapes4.sapdevcenter.com
Users can be registered via:
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40986
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Create Simple API Proxy
From the SAP API Management API Portal,
connect to public SAP Gateway Odata service
at
https://sapes4.sapdevcenter.com/sap/opu/odat
a/iwbep/GWSAMPLE_BASIC
And test the newly created API Proxy in a
browser:
https://trial.apim1.hanatrial.ondemand.com:443/
p1941945543trial/GWSAMPLE_BASIC_Simple
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Before we get started…
Throught the next exercises we will access and use several URL, users, API Keys, …
To simplify switching back and forth it can be useful to collect all this information in a notepad
so you can easily copy and paste it from there.
Information you should keep are:
HCP Trial ID
URL to HCP APIM
API Portal
API Developer Portal
API Proxy
API Key
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Unit 3 – Exercise: Create Your First API Proxy
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Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
- Log on to HCP Trial and understand what it is for
- Connect to the public SAP Gateway system ES4
- Create a very simple API Proxy and call it from a browser
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Thank you.
