Sending Test Message to SAP CPI Trial Account

Introduction:

Triggering a Test message to SAP CPI cloud foundry trial account is different from sending it to Neo environment. In this Blog, we are going to see on how to send a message to SAP CPI trial account.

Sending message to SAP CPI Trial Account:

• Logon to Trial Home and navigate to the subaccount where in the Process Integration has been subscribed.
• Create Instance for the Process Integration by navigating to Services ->Service Instances -> Create Instance.

• Select the options from the dropdown as shown in the below screenshot and input the alias name for your instance, click Next.

• In the specify parameters tab, input the below json and select “Create Instance”.

{

“roles”:[

“ESBMessaging.send”

]

}

• Now, the service instance has been created with the role “ESBMessaging.send”. The Next step is to “Create Service key”.
• Select the three dotted line on the service instance -> “Create Service Key”.

• Give a name to service key and select create.

• In this way, you can create n number of service keys for each source dedicatedly which enables us to remove the service key easily if in case any sender goes out of scope.
• Select three dots on the service created and select “View”.

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

• I have created an integration flow with http sender which just outputs “This is a test message”.

• Navigate to Integrate Content and select the appropriate IFlow to see the http URL which needs to be used to call this integration flow.

• Now, we are going to trigger a test message to CPI via Postman. In Postman, specify the endpoint URL as the value which you have got in the token endpoint URL and append ?grant_type=client_credentials.
• Select the Authorization as “Basic Auth” . Input “ClientID” value as username and “Client Secret” value as password.
• Now, send the message and you will get a response back with the access_token.

• Now, call the actual integration flow URL now by selecting the authorization as “Bearer” and input the value which you have got in the access_token field of the previous step.

• Hurray!! Its success and we have got the expected response back.
• The Postman test can also be done in another way. Call the Integration Flow endpoint directly by selecting the authorization as “Oauth 2.0”.
• Then, Configure the new token by selecting the Grant type as “Client Credentials” and fill in the appropriate filed with its respective data.

• Click “Get New Access Token” –> ”Proceed” –> “Use Token”. Now, send the request and you can see the same expected response.
• Also, you can see sync button and select the same to get the access token each time the request is being made.

• Hurray!! Its success again and we have got the expected response back.

Conclusion:

• Finally, We arrived at a conclusion on how to trigger a test message to SAP CPI Trial account. You can also create n number of service keys with the associated instance depending on your needs.
• Each Service keys can be used for dedicated purpose.