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Task 0 - Server and service provisioning (July Developer Challenge - "Reverse APIs")

qmacro — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:07:53 GMT

This is a task in the July Developer Challenge - "Reverse APIs".

📺 We covered this task, both the "Simple deployment to BTP " approach, and the "Local deployment plus ngrok tunnel " approach, in the Hands-on SAP Dev live stream episode on Fri 05 Jul, and you can watch the replay of this coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/live/0hindK_fQ8c?si=FCId-oEln1ISGjwe&t=1098

This task is start you off gently so you can become comfortable with making a simple CAP powered service available in the cloud. This is so your API endpoints within services served by a CAP server can be reached from the TESTER service and checked for "correctness" (read the main challenge blog post July Developer Challenge - "Reverse APIs" for what this means).

What you need to do is simply follow the guidelines in the "Making your service available to test" in the 2024-07 "Reverse APIs" SAP Developer Challenge blog post, choosing either the "Simple deployment to BTP" approach, or the "Local deployment plus ngrok tunnel" approach, or indeed an approach of your own choosing.

NOTE: Whichever approach you choose, please ensure you choose a unique application name, ideally one that relates to your SAP Community ID. For example, my SAP Community ID is "qmacro" hence the application names in the guidelines referenced here are "qmacro-simplest-deployment" and "qmacro-simplest-deployment". Please make sure you use different names 👍

In this particular "pre" task (Task 0), there's no testing of whatever you get up and running; testing of your service endpoints starts with Task 1.

This thread is for us to discuss working through this task, to make comments and observations, and also to help each other get through the steps needed.

Optionally, once you get a simple CAP server up and running and the service URL exposed to the cloud, let us know here in the comments and share the URL.

Other than that, there's nothing to be done, nothing specific you need to have your test service endpoint return, and there will be nothing tested. It's just to make sure you know how to spin something up for the remaining 10 tasks.

Remember

You do NOT need to call the TESTER service for this task.
When choosing an application name, choose something unique, for example related to your SAP Community ID

Off you go!

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

ajmaradiaga — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:35:20 GMT

I've completed task 0! Yep, I know... there is no validation for this task hehe. Just getting ready for task 1 😉

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

qmacro — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:45:18 GMT

Nicely tested though anyway 😉

Actually, this allows me to point out to folks the importance of what the `serviceurl` is.

In your screenshot you have:

`https://ajmadariaga-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/catalog/Books`

... but this is NOT a service URL. It's the URL of a specific entity set

`/Books`

_within_ the service

`/odata/v4/catalog`

So the value for the serviceurl here should have been:

`https://ajmadariaga-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/catalog`

Please note the difference, folks! Services can have multiple endpoints, e.g. `/Books`, `/Authors`, etc, each with their own specific URLs.

Thank you for providing me with an opportunity to make this distinction clear!

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

gphadnis2000 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:41:15 GMT

I have completed my task 0 and below is the screenshot.

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

qmacro — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:59:24 GMT

Calling the TESTER with a made-up task name ("task-0-provisioning") is not described in this task and not part of it 🙂 ...it's just @ajmaradiaga messing with our heads 😄

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

MioYasutake — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:09:37 GMT

My service is up and running on Cloud Foundry!

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

johnsonjos16 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:09:47 GMT

URL: qmacro-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

shrinivasan_neelamegam — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:40:47 GMT

Love the one liner to create a cap app and deploy to cloud foundry 🙂

https://neelames-simplest-deployment.cfapps.eu11.hana.ondemand.com/

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

qmacro — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:21:46 GMT

Heheh, thanks, I love one-liners. They celebrate the true power of the shell, but also allow us to iterate fast and become more productive as developers.

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

mwn — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:54:35 GMT

I started with the local execution option, but when I looked at getting ngrok, I lost interest and went back to the simple CF option.

Hence, I have this hybrid URL: https://qmacro-local-execution.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

Alpesa1990 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:31:43 GMT

My submission for task 0.

https://alpesa-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

SushmitaG98 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 06:04:08 GMT

Here is my submission

https://flyhigh-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/

Regards,

Sushmita

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

dvvelzen — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:27:12 GMT

Just to confirm it's up and running:

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

geek61 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:13:08 GMT

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

tobiasz_h — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:12:30 GMT

Hello,

The service is up and running locally with Ngrok:

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

ManojKumarVarma — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:29:22 GMT

Hello qmacro,

I have completed the task! below are the url and screenshot for the task.

https://qmacro-simplest-deployment12.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/

Regards,

Manoj Kumar Potharaju.

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

SingireddySunil — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:30:40 GMT

Hi @qmacro ,

I have completed the Task 0 and here is my CAP service CF deployed URL
https://qmacro-simplest-deployment123.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com
Please find the attached images for the reference.

Thanks,
Sunil Sigireddy.

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

Ruthiel — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:36:34 GMT

Hello everyone!
Nice Challange!

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

spassaro — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:47:48 GMT

Great start and amazing one-liner!! Off we go!

Re: 2024-07 Developer Challenge - Task 0 - Server and service provisioning

YogSSohanee — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:00:20 GMT

I have completed the task 0 - provisioning.