JSON POST & PUT (single & batch) on NetWeaver Gateway

I recently faced some issues while trying to update/create entities with JSON on Gateway. Mainly this was due to my lack of knowledge of the POST and PUT request format. In this blog I will describe how it worked for me for both single as well as batch update/create.

The easiest way to start with, is to make a GET call on the same collection in case of POST or on the same entity for a PUT. One more reason to make this call is to get the x-csrf-token and the sap-XSRF_GIQ_100 cookie (depends on which GW is being used) which will be required for the POST or PUT calls later.

The cookie was required to be added as a header because I was accessing the GW from a different domain (different location) and thus the browser was not sending the cookie back with the subsequent requests automatically.

GET Request

Let’s look at the Get call, the related headers and the response below

URL

http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/TravelagencyCollection?$top=1&$format=json

Headers

Name:x-csrf-token Value:fetch

Response

{“d”:{“results”:[{“__metadata”:{“id”:”http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/TravelagencyCollection(‘00000001‘)”,”uri”:”http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/TravelagencyCollection(‘00000001‘)”,”type”:”RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT.Travelagency”},”agencynum”:”00000001″,”NAME”:”DEBU”,”STREET”:””,”POSTBOX”:””,”POSTCODE”:””,”CITY”:””,”COUNTRY”:””,”REGION”:””,”TELEPHONE”:””,”URL”:””,”LANGU”:””,”CURRENCY”:””,”mimeType”:”text/html”}]}}

Now once we have an entity, we can modify it to be used for the subsequent PUT and POST requests described below.

PUT Request

URL

http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/TravelagencyCollection(‘00000001’)

Headers

Name:Content-Type Value:application/json; charset=utf-8

Name:x-csrf-token Value:vDXb3IhLuc-AHYojkfMG9A==

Name:cookie Value:sap-XSRF_GIQ_100=vDXb3IhLu…

Request Body

{“d”:{“agencynum”:”00000001″,”NAME”:”DEBU”,”STREET”:””,”POSTBOX”:””,”POSTCODE”:””,”CITY”:””,”COUNTRY”:””,”REGION”:””,”TELEPHONE”:””,”URL”:””,”LANGU”:””,”CURRENCY”:””,”mimeType”:”text/html”}}

Note: The “results” and “__metadata” need to be removed to form the request body.

POST Request

URL

http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/TravelagencyCollection

Headers

Name:Content-Type Value:application/json; charset=utf-8

Name:x-csrf-token Value:vDXb3IhLuc-AHYojkfMG9A==

Name:cookie Value:sap-XSRF_GIQ_100=vDXb3IhLu…

Request Body

{“d”:{“agencynum”:”00022222″,”NAME”:”DEBU”,”STREET”:””,”POSTBOX”:””,”POSTCODE”:””,”CITY”:””,”COUNTRY”:””,”REGION”:””,”TELEPHONE”:””,”URL”:””,”LANGU”:””,”CURRENCY”:””,”mimeType”:”text/html”}}

Batch processing

URL

http://ldcigiq.wdf.sap.corp:50015/sap/opu/odata/IWFND/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT/$batch

Headers

Name:x-csrf-token Value:wN9Ebbp1BDWprGXDtL-TXA==

Name:cookie Value:sap-XSRF_GIQ_100=wN9Ebbp1BDWprGXDt…..

Name:Content-Type Value:multipart/mixed; boundary=batch

Request Body

–batch
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=changeset

–changeset
Content-Type: application/http
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

PUT TravelagencyCollection(‘00055557’) HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 198

{“d”:{“agencynum”:”00055557″,”NAME”:”汉字漢”,”STREET”:””,”POSTBOX”:””,”POSTCODE”:””,”CITY”:””,”COUNTRY”:””,”REGION”:””,”TELEPHONE”:””,”URL”:””,”LANGU”:””,”CURRENCY”:””,”mimeType”:”text/html”}}

–changeset
Content-Type: application/http
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

POST TravelagencyCollection HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 198

{“d”:{“agencynum”:”00044470″,”NAME”:”再見”,”STREET”:””,”POSTBOX”:””,”POSTCODE”:””,”CITY”:””,”COUNTRY”:”IND”,”REGION”:””,”TELEPHONE”:””,”URL”:””,”LANGU”:””,”CURRENCY”:””,”mimeType”:”text/html”}}
–changeset–
–batch–

Note:

If any one of the two request fails to succeed, both fails.

The content length must be accurate or more, if it is less, then you will get an exception stating “Error while parsing an XML stream: ‘unexpected end of string'”

Helpful links

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40546820-3ea7-2f10-dfab-be373c0da357?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&55959128903935

Hope this helps!

Soumya R April 7, 2016 at 10:01 am

Hello Sir,

I have tried in my application where the entity type is media type. I tried pushing the json data as payload, it gives 202 accepted but, message: Empty response body: Check your batch request.

https://<system port>/sap/opu/odata/SAP/Ztest_SRV/$batch

this is the payload:

header:

csrf token: value

and content type: multipart/mixed;bounday=batch

body:

–batch

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=changeset

–changeset

Content-Type: application/http

Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

POST SurveyResponseSet HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8

{“Name”:“{\”a\“:{\”b\“:{\”c\“:{\

“d\“:{\”e\“:{\”survey_id\“:\”73579975\“,\”title\“:\

“second_survey\“,\”date_modified\“:\”2016-02-22 11:13:00\“,\

“analysis_url\“:\”https://www.xys.com/MySurvey_Resp

onses.aspx?sm=vDM6KGcZ49pQXaf3KzRzcxgsSPCyc8qacWfE6jXg1B4_3D

\“,\”language_id\“:\”1\“,\”num_responses\“:\”3\“,\”date_crea

ted\“:\”2016-01-07 04:12:00\“,\”question_count\“:\”1\“}}}},\

“surveydetails\“:{\”data\“:{\”pages\“:{\”page_id\“:\”2269089

06\“,\”questions\“:{\”type\“:{\”subtype\“:\”vertical\“,\”nam

e\“:\”\“,\”family\“:\”single_choice\“},\”answers\“:[{\”text\

“:\”Red\“,\”visible\“:\”true\“,\”position\“:\”1\“,\”type\“:\

“row\“,\”answer_id\“:\”9755912582\“},{\”text\“:\”Green\“,\”v

isible\“:\”true\“,\”position\“:\”2\“,\”type\“:\”row\“,\”answ

er_id\“:\”9755912583\“},{\”text\“:\”Yellow\“,\”visible\“:\”t

rue\“,\”position\“:\”3\“,\”type\“:\”row\“,\”answer_id\“:\”97

55912584\“}],\”position\“:\”1\“,\”heading\“:\”Color of Apple

?\“,\”question_id\“:\”897359653\“},\”position\“:\”1\“}}}}}”}

–changeset

Content-Type: application/http

Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

POST TravelagencyCollection HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: 198