Create a Destination within the Cloud Foundry Environment

Destinations are key building blocks in SAP Cloud Platform, and are used to define connections for outbound communication from your application to remote systems. These remote systems can be on-premises or in the cloud.

A destination has a name, a URL, authentication details, and some other configuration details.

The destination you will define here is for the set of OData services known as the “Northwind” services, which are publicly available and hosted by OASIS at https://services.odata.org.

The Northwind OData services comes in several versions. The tutorials currently use either V2 (https://services.odata.org/V2/Northwind/Northwind.svc/) or V4 (https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/). To support both versions, and other versions that may be added later, you will create a generic connection to the Northwind service. The exact path - and exact version - will be configured in later tutorials.

Step 1: Enter your trial account

Go to https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com and log in to your SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. Click the Enter Your Trial Account button.

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Step 2: Access your subaccount

Click on the tile of your Cloud Foundry subaccount.

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Step 3: Open the Destinations view

Click on the Destinations button on the left panel and click New Destination to open a new destination configuration form.

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Step 4: Create new destination

Enter/confirm all fields in the destination configuration section with the information below and confirm with Save.

Field Name	Value
Name	Northwind
Type	HTTP
Description	Northwind OData services
URL	https://services.odata.org
Proxy Type	Internet
Authentication	NoAuthentication

And the following Additional Properties

Property Name	Value
HTML5.DynamicDestination	true (enter this property manually as it is not available in the dropdown list)
WebIDEEnabled	true
WebIDESystem	Northwind
WebIDEUsage	odata_gen

Do not use the entire path for the URL. The URL should only be https://services.odata.org

When you specify a URL with the HTTPS scheme, a checkbox Use default JDK truststore will appear. Ensure that this is checked.

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Step 5: Check the connection

Click on the Check Connection icon on the newly created Destination to see if everything works.

What does the popover say?

Failure Connection established. Connection to "Northwind" established. Response returned: "200: OK" Please come back later

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