API Management Overview and Lifecycle
How to Create an API Proxy?
Creating an API Proxy
Lifecycle – API Management
Secure and Monitor and Meter and
Design Develop
Manage Analyze Monetize
In this unit, we will see how we can use
SAP Cloud Platform API Management to expose
interfaces from back-end systems as open APIs.
▪ Design APIs based on open standard like OData
▪ Develop APIs by exposing back-end interfaces
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Prerequisites
Technical prerequisites for creating API proxy
▪ SAP Cloud Platform trial account
▪ Activate SAP API Management service
▪ Register and connect to SAP Gateway system
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SAP Cloud Platform trial
SAP Cloud Platform offers a free trial account in order to try out API management
▪ Register: https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit
▪ Activate: Accept the terms and conditions through the activation link via email
▪ Log on to the account with your credentials and access your free trial account
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Activate SAP Cloud Platform API Management
Activating SAP API Management service from
accounts cockpit
▪ One of the services available on SAP Cloud
Platform is SAP API Management.
▪ Once activated, API portal and Dev portal can be
accessed
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Register and 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://sapes5.sapdevcenter.com
Users can be registered via:
https://www.sap.com/india/developer/tutorials/
gateway-demo-signup.html
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First API proxy
▪ The API portal is for developers to create API
proxies and products
▪ The Dev portal is used by developers to
consume an API proxy
▪ From the API portal, connect to the public
SAP Gateway OData service at
https://sapes5.sapdevcenter.com/sap/opu/
odata/iwbep/GWSAMPLE_BASIC
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Summary
After completing this unit you should be able to:
▪ Register to SAP Cloud Platform trial account
▪ Activate the SAP API Management service
▪ Connect to an SAP Gateway system
▪ Create an API proxy and test it
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