Expose Integration Flow Endpoint as API and Test the Flow

In this step, you copy the endpoint address of the integration flow.

1. Open your integration flow.

2. In the Deployment Status tab of the property sheet, choose the navigation link.

   

3. In the Endpoints tab, choose the Copy icon.

   

In this step, you define and expose an integration flow endpoint as an application programming interface (API).

1. To provision the API Management capability, go to Settings > Runtimes and choose Activate. The provisioning might take a few seconds to complete. After the provisioning is complete, refresh your webpage.

The page is available only if you’re provisioning the capability as a first-time user. If API Management is already provisioned in your subaccount, continue with the next step.

2. Go to Configure > APIs and choose Create to create an API proxy.

3. On the Create API dialog, next to Select, select URL and specify the following parameters:

   IMPORTANT: Paste only the endpoint URL until /http/products. Otherwise, the scenario will not run correctly.

   Parameter	Settings
   URL	Paste the integration flow endpoint address you have copied in step 1. It ends with /http/products/details. Paste the endpoint URL only until /http/products instead of /http/products/details.
   Name	RequestProductDetails
   Title	Product Details API
   API Base Path	/products

   

   Select Create.

4. On the landing page, go to the Resources tab and choose Add.

   

5. In the field Tag, enter Product Details, and in the field Path Prefix enter /details.

   

6. Under Operations, delete all tabs except the POST tab and choose OK.

   

   The API resource is displayed.

7. Choose Deploy to create and activate the API proxy for your integration flow.

   

8. Choose the POST operation to display more details on the API. A default API definition in Open API specification format is also generated.

9. To update the generated API definition in Open API format, choose Edit > Edit in API Designer.

   

   The API designer opens.

10. In the editable section on the right part of the screen, make the following changes.

    Change the key Payload in line 37 to productIdentifier. Then, add a new row after type with the following key-value pair: example: HT-2000

    TIP: Instead of copying the example, type it manually.

    

    

    Choose Save.

11. Choose RequestProductDetails and then the Resources tab. Then, choose Edit > Edit in API Designer.

    Now choose the POST request. You notice the API changed, in particular, the request body now contains one element with a product identifier.

    

12. When you choose Try Out and then Execute, since no authentication details have been configured, you get an error message with error code 401 (not authorized). We will fix this error in the next steps of this tutorial.

    

    With this step, you have successfully created an API proxy for your integration flow and generated an API documentation for your REST API in OpenAPI format.

In this step, you’ll copy the client ID, client secret, and token URL from the service key that you automatically generated in your SAP BTP account. See Set Up SAP Integration Suite Trial.

1. In your SAP BTP subaccount, navigate to your service instance page. Choose Services > Instances and Subscriptions.

2. Under the Instances section, look out for the service instance that was created. Choose the key under the Credentials column to open the service key.

   

   TIP: In trial accounts, the default name that the booster provides for the service instance is default-it-rt-integration-flow. In free tier accounts, the instance name is user defined.

3. Copy the values of the clientid, clientsecret and tokenurl parameters. These are the credentials that you later use to make a request to your integration flow.

   

In this step, you assign a policy template to your API to specify authentication details for the API call. In particular, you use a policy template that defines that the caller of the API authenticates itself using OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant.

This grant type works in the following way: In a first call, the API client provides the values of clientid and clientsecret (from the service key generated in step 1) to a token service (the URL of the token service is also contained in the service key definition). The token service provides an access token to the API client. In a subsequent call, the API client calls the integration flow endpoint providing the access token. If the access token is valid, the API client is authorized to call the integration flow.

1. Choose Discover > APIs.

2. Search for the package Connect to SAP Business Technology Platform Services and select it.

   

3. Navigate to Artifacts tab, where you find one artifact.

4. Under Actions, choose Copy.

   

5. Once the artifact was copied successfully, go to Configure > APIs.

6. Choose the API that you created in the previous step.

   

7. Choose Edit.

   

8. Select Policies.

   

   The policy editor opens.

9. Choose Policy Template > Apply.

   

10. Select the template Cloud_Platform_Connectivity and choose Apply.

    

11. Open the node Target Endpoint.

    

12. Choose PreFlow.

    

13. In the editor, the OAuth workflow defined by the policy is visualized as a graphical model.

    Now, you need the values copied from the service key: clientid, clientsecret and tokenurl.

14. In the graphical model of the Policy Editor, choose the getcredential shape.

    

15. Paste the value of clientid and clientsecret as shown in the following image.

    

16. In the policy editor, choose the getoauthtoken shape.

    

17. Paste the value of tokenurl as shown in the following screenshot.

    Note: Make sure that you append ?grant_type=client_credentials to the token URL that you pasted.

    

18. Select Update.

    

19. Select Save.

    

20. To deploy your changes, choose Click to Deploy in the message strip at the top of the screen.

    

21. Confirm the deployment.

    You’ve now assigned a policy template to your API.

In this step, you try out the API to get product details as a response from the web shop.

1. Go to the Resources tab.

   

2. Choose Try Out.

   

3. Choose Execute.

   

4. As result, you see the response from the WebShop with the product details for the given product identifier.

   

You have successfully set up your SAP Integration Suite tenant, designed a simple integration flow that reads data from a remote component, and defined the integration flow endpoint as an API. Finally, you have successfully called the API to get product details as a response from the remote component.

This scenario showed you how to use SAP Integration Suite, and in particular, its Cloud Integration and API Management capabilities seamlessly integrated, end-to-end.