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Exploring API Specifications on the SAP API Business Hub
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- 1 Welcome and introduction with some extra rambling about my setup
- 2 Moving to the SAP API Business Hub
- 3 Starting to dive into the SAP S/4HANA product
- 4 Filtering down to the OData V2 APIs and the Business Partner A2X API
- 5 Exploring what the SAP API Business Hub tells us about this API schema, attrs, spec, extensibility, auth, SAP Cloud SDK support and more
- 6 Looking at some of the API endpoints and noticing the OData system query options, plus the classic OData v2 JSON response format with the 'd' property
- 7 Having our first 'try out' of an endpoint directly in the hub, in the sandbox
- 8 Understanding what the A_ prefix represents in the entity set names
- 9 Downloading and looking briefly at all the API specification documents JSON, YAML and EDMX
- 10 Fixing my neovim installation that I broke just before the live stream started
- 11 Staring at and exploring the EDMX the OData service metadata document for API_BUSINESS_PARTNER
- 12 Resorting to using Latin to convey what I'm trying to say #FAIL
- 13 Opening the API_BUSINESS_PARTNER.edmx file in VS Code
- 14 A great discussion on singular vs plural naming convention for entities
- 15 Opening the API_BUSINESS_PARTNER.edmx file with the OData CSDL Modeler extension - very diagram, much graphical, wow!
- 16 Kicking the tyres of the API from my own machine, with curl, working through the responses with an API key 401, then 307, and ultimately a binary gzipped payload
- 17 Distinguishing between the service document and the metadata document - the two "well known" documents of any OData service
- 18 Recognizing the origins of OData in the Atom syndication format XML elements
- 19 Fixing the name of the entity set we are reminded of the A2X nature of this API by the myriad annotations in the metadata
- 20 Importing the API_BUSINESS_PARTNER.edmx file into a new CAP Node.js project and having it mocked and served locally as an OData v4 service with our very own test data, with just one command and in o…
