SAP CAP Model – Intermediate and Advanced Concepts

Introduction:

• In this video series, we will look at some of the intermediate and advanced concepts of SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
• We will cover various topics like background tasks, emitting events and handling events, connecting to remote services, multi-tenancy, job scheduler etc.
• More videos will be added periodically

Synopsis:

• OData V2 service support
• Retrieving user information
• Custom event handlers – $expand, insert, update
• Background tasks – cds.spawn

Synopsis:

• Emitting and handling events
• Same Process, Same Service
• Same Process, Different Service
• Different Process, Different Service (File based messaging)

Synopsis:

• Connecting to a remote service using cds.connect
• Key to building any extension app in SAP BTP on any of the SaaS applications like SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba etc.
• Integrate external services with local services

Synopsis:

• Consuming an SAP CAP endpoint from an external application (SAP AppGyver)
• Creating destinations in SAP BTP using OAuth2 flow

Conclusion:

• You should now be familiar with
  • Emit and handle custom events
  • Able to connect to remote services using cds.connect.to
  • Create background tasks using cds.spawn
  • Use File based messaging application