What is an API ?
API stands for Application Programming Interface, it is a set of commands, functions, protocols and objects that developers can use to integrate application, software or interact with external system. Terms that you’ll hear while working with APIs: Endpoint, Path, Parameters and Authentication. Endpoint: API that interacts with external system will have an endpoint. Endpoint is
Exposing service / REST APIs from SAP – 2
While working in Real time, we may have to expose N numbers of APIs from SAP and it is not a good practice to create a node in SICF for each requirement. To make it dynamic, we can add identifiers in the API / URL. In SAP, we’ll be creating a Table (Z table, e.g:
EXPOSE SERVICE / API FROM SAP – XML response
Please check this blog for SICF configuration and Service handler class creation. In this example, passing the IDoc number through Params instead if Payload. Payload is empty. XML Response. Here I took the example of IDoc, incase if you have to convert Table data to XML, then please use TCode XSLT_TOOL and use Transformation.
SAPCODES 