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Create a destination for the Northwind OData services
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Create a destination for the Northwind OData services
By lpareek
Create a destination within the SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity service to allow access to the Northwind OData services
Details
- How to configure a basic destination
- What some of the Web IDE specific properties are
- How to specify the Web IDE usage parameter for a generic OData service
Destinations are key building blocks in the SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity service, and are used to define connections for outbound communication of 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 V3 (https://services.odata.org/V3/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: Log into SAP Cloud Platform
Step 2: Create new destination
Select the Destinations tab on the left side, and then click on New Destination to open a new destination configuration form.
Step 3: Confirm data
Step 4: Add properties
Add three Additional Properties by clicking on the New Property button once for each property.
| Field Name | Value |
|---|---|
WebIDEEnabled |
true |
WebIDESystem |
Northwind_Data |
WebIDEUsage |
odata_gen |
Values for the
WebIDEUsageproperty determine how the SAP Web IDE interprets the destination definition & presents it to you for connection and consumption. The valueodata_gensignifies that the destination represents generic OData services (as opposed to OData services that are hosted on an SAP Gateway system, for example) and that the full, specific OData service URL specification is to be provided in the SAP Web IDE “New Project” wizard, specifically via the “Service URL” data connection source, as shown in this example scenario:
Find out more about the possible values for the
WebIDEUsageproperty in the SAP Help Portal, in the Connect to ABAP Systems section.
Step 5: Save your destination
Step 6: Check the Additional Property settings