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SAP HANA XS Advanced - Clone and run SHINE applications

Beginner
25 min.
This tutorial will walk you through the prerequisites and initial setup to enable the SHINE objects in XS Advanced
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How to clone the SAP HANA INteractive Education source code from Git Hub, generate the dependencies and deploy the applications using Web IDE for SAP HANA.

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Prerequisites

  • This tutorial is designed for SAP HANA on premise and SAP HANA, express edition. It is not designed for SAP HANA Cloud.
  • Proficiency: Beginner
  • Step 1

    Open SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA and log in with a developer user.

    Note: By default, the URL for Web IDE in SAP HANA, express edition is https://hxehost:53075. You can use command xs apps in space SAP in the Command Line Interface to find out the right

    Right-click on the Workspace and click on Git-> Clone Repository:

    Clone repo

    Copy the URL https://github.com/SAP/hana-shine-xsa into the Clone Git Repository prompt and click on Clone

    Clone Git

    Wait until the repository is cloned. If you receive a dialog about Git Ignore System Files, please choose Do it later. You will see a success message on the top right corner of Web IDE and the folder in your workspace:

    Clone Git
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  • Step 2

    Right-click on the imported project and go to Project Settings:

    edit settings

    Set the space development to the project:

    edit settings

    Close the settings dialog.

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  • Step 3

    You will need to complete some configurations in the deployment descriptor with the proper endpoints.

    Open the mta.yaml file and click on the Resources tab in editor mode. Select the uaa resource

    edit YAML

    Replace the hostname and instance number with the right value for your system.

    Note: The default hostname for SAP HANA, express edition instances is hxehost and the default instance number is 90.

    For example:

    edit YAML

    Click on the controller resource and replace the hostname and instance number again:

    edit YAML

    Finally, you will change the name of the service for the shine-container so you can access it from your own multi-target application later. Click on the shine-container resource and add a parameter called service-name and the value shine-container

    edit YAML
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  • Step 4

    If you look at the list of resources in the mta.yaml file, you will find instances of the User Account and Authentication, the audit log and the job scheduler services. In order to meet the dependencies, these services need to be created. You can use the Command Line Interface for this, available in the server by default in SAP HANA, express edition instances. You can also install it locally using the download manager after you register in the SAP HANA, express edition site

    First, locate the file xs-security.json that was cloned with the SHINE Git repository from an SSH console. Alternatively, you can export it from Web IDE and upload it to the directory from which you will be issuing the commands.

    sudo find / -name xs-security.json
    

    Copy the result as you will need it later when creating the UAA service:

    Find security file

    Log in to the XS CLI using command xs login or xs-admin-login.

    Log in to XS CLI

    Make sure the job scheduler service is running using command xs a | grep scheduler in space SAP. If it is not running, start the necessary services using the following commands:

    xs st jobscheduler-service
    xs st jobscheduler-broker
    

    For example:

    Check scheduler app

    You can now create the services. Make sure you create them in the same space in which you will deploy the SHINE application. In this case, the space is development.

    xs t -s development
    xs create-service xsuaa default shine-uaa -c <<path to xs-security.json>>
    xs cs jobscheduler default shine-scheduler
    xs cs auditlog free shine-auditlog
    xs cs hana securestore secureStore
    

    For example:

    Check scheduler app

    You will now make sure the proper services have been created. Run the following commands using CLI and copy the results in the validation below.

    xs t -s development
    xs s | grep shine
    

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  • Step 5

    You will build the database modules first.

    Start with the module user-db. Right click on its folder and then on Build:

    build user-db

    And make sure the build is successful.

    build user-db

    Repeat the steps with the core-db module.

    build core-db

    The rest of the modules will be built automatically before they are run in the next step.

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  • Step 6

    You will now run the modules in an order that satisfies dependencies between them. They will be built automatically before running. If you encounter an error stating No compatible version found, use the latest version quoted in the error to update the package.json file in the module that is failing.

    For example, right-click con the user-xsjs module and then click on Run->Run as->Node.js Application

    Run modules

    If you get a build error, click on the link to the Logs

    Run modules

    And take note of the versions suggested by npm

    Run modules

    Open the package.json file for this module and update any dependencies that are needed according to the previous error log:

    Run modules

    You can also get a hint of the dependencies you will need to adjust by right-clicking on each module and selecting Show dependency updates:

    Run modules

    Save the package.json file with the updated dependencies and run the module.

    Once the user-xsjs module is running, run the core-xsjs module:

    Run modules

    Then run the core-node module:

    Run modules

    Check all the modules are running. You can quickly verify because you will see a green tick next to each one of them:

    Run all

    Finally, run the web module. Right-click on the web->resources->launchpad->index.html and click on Run as Web Application:

    Run web modules

    A new tab will open in the browser. You can click on the generated URL if the pop-up blocker did not allow the application to start.

    Note: If you get an error related to the version of SAP UI5, update the version of the resource sapui5-provider in the mta.yaml file. Switch to the SAP space first with command xs s -t SAP and take note of the version informed by command xs mtas in the CLI for the UI5 library.

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  • Step 7

    You may need to log in again. Use XSA_DEV and the password you set up.

    Log in to SHINE

    The first execution of the SHINE launchpad will help you make sure the technical prerequisites are fulfilled. Click on the Check Prerequisites button:

    Run web modules

    Any missing dependencies will be marked for you. Click on each of the buttons for them to be automatically corrected:

    Run web modules
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  • Step 8

    You are finally presented with different options in the launchpad. Click on Generate Data:

    Generate data

    You can increase the number of transactions in your database or reload master data:

    Generate data

    What does the URL look like for the DATA GENERATOR site?

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