Add an API Proxy to a Product

Meredith Hassett

12/02/2018

Beginner

15 min.

In SAP Cloud Platform, API Management, API Proxies are grouped and exposed as so called Products. In this tutorial you will create a new product and assign the previously created API Proxy to it

You will learn

SAP Cloud Platform, API Management uses three main components to expose APIs.
- The API Provider is used to abstract the connection to the backend / target system
- The API Proxy is the actual API which contains the logic to connect to the target system. Here you can model the flow, add security policies, transform the incoming message or look for content injections
- The API Product which bundles one or more API Proxies before they are exposed in the API Developer portal so they can be consumed by a developer

In SAP Cloud Platform, API Management, API Proxies are grouped and exposed as so called Products. In this tutorial you will create a new product and assign the previously created API Proxy to it

Step 1: Open the SAP API Management API Portal

Open the SAP API Management API Portal (you can get the URL from Enable the SAP Cloud Platform, API Management Service).

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Step 2: Quick start a product creation

From the Home screen, click on Product under the Quick Actions tile.

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Step 3: View current products

To access the list of Products, select the Hamburger Menu in the upper left corner and click on Develop

Select Products from the tab menu. This will bring up the list of previously created products.

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Step 4: Create a new product

On the Products tab, click on Create to start the new product wizard.

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Step 5: Add name and title

On the Overview page, Enter the values for Name and Title.

Field	Value
Name	`ProductForFirstAPIProxy`
Title	Product For First API Proxy

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Step 6: Select the API Proxy

In the tab menu, select API. This is were you can add and remove APIs and API Proxies from the product.

Click the Add button.

The list of API Proxies is populated from the APIs you have created. Select the API Proxy GWSAMPLE_BASIC that you created in the previous tutorial. Click OK.

Expand the GWSAMPLE_BASIC API to see some of the collections. Which of the items below is in that list? CompanySet ContactSet EmployeeSet ProductSet SalesOrderSet

Step 7: Click Publish

Click on Publish.