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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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Creating an API Proxy
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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Creating an API Proxy
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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Creating an API Proxy
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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Creating an API Proxy
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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Creating an API Proxy
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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Creating an API Proxy
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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