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

[qmacro]

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!

[ajmaradiaga]

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

[qmacro]

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!

[gphadnis2000]

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

[qmacro]

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 😄

[MioYasutake]

My service is up and running on Cloud Foundry!

[johnsonjos16]

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

[shrinivasan_neelamegam]

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

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

[qmacro]

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.

[mwn]

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/

[Alpesa1990]

My submission for task 0.

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

[SushmitaG98]

Here is my submission

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

Regards,

Sushmita

[dvvelzen]

Just to confirm it's up and running:

[geek61]

[tobiasz_h]

Hello,

The service is up and running locally with Ngrok:

[ManojKumarVarma]

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.

[SingireddySunil]

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.

[Ruthiel]

Hello everyone!
Nice Challange!

[spassaro]

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

[YogSSohanee]

I have completed the task 0 - provisioning. 

[M-K]

[sudarshan_b]

Little late, but my submission for Task-0

[qmacro]

Not too late! I may deduct some points for calling the TESTER service (see the instructions above), plus the comments here) but will certainly add lots more on for using curl, having jq natively, having a nice shell prompt, using bash, and ... possibly (given the name of the host) using a dev container? Nice work! 🚀

[krishnan-jr]

Task 0 done and is available @ https://krishnan-jr-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/

[vineelaallamnen]

Complete task 0

[brodierose]

https://40ab-197-93-34-207.ngrok-free.app/

[ajay_soreng]

My service deployed in BTP trial account. https://ajay-soreng-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/ 

[HPSeitz]

Part of the game, using RestClient in BAS:

[BH91976]

I've colpeted task 0.
https://berreke9176-simplest-deployment.cfapps.us10-001.hana.ondemand.com/ 

[CameronWilson]

Here is task 0 completed

url: cammWilsonn-simplest-deployment 1.0.0 (72d5-102-209-8-26.ngrok-free.app)

[Jordi_C]

Using the Ngrok method:
Completed "task 0" a little late

https://66bc-169-0-105-127.ngrok-free.app/

 

[harsh_itaverma]

I know July month is over! But I m still going to complete this one. 🙂

[qmacro]

No worries - great to see you here! 🙂 

[Hemanth2406]

I know am late to the party. When i tried to deploy am getting error APP "hr2406-simplest-deployment' is not found.

Could someone help me to resolve this issue. I am using BTP Trial Account

Thanks,

Hemanth

[qmacro]

Hello Hemanth - did you watch the video that covers this (link at the top of this thread), and did you follow the steps? If so, and you're still getting an error, you'll need to help us to help you, by giving much more detail here. What did you do? What are the details? What about screenshots? What else did you try? Thanks. DJ