Video Series - Part 11 - Starting with PDI development

[Kinsbrunner]

This is episode 11 of "Developing side-by-side extensions with CAP for SAP Service Cloud v1" where I am explaining how to test the deployed application through Postman. I will show youhow to prepare and setup the External Web Service Integration and Communication Arrangements in order to obtain the oAuth token, as well as, for calling the REST API endpoint so we can consume them on our next episode.

[Saurabh_Kabra]

@Kinsbrunner Just one observational comment, hope you won't mind 😉

If you are doing it side-by-side, don't you think, using PDI is against the principle of it? In my opinion, the same scenario could be fully leveraged without SDK.

1. You can use CPI to do the entire operation, what you did in this video as well as what you will be doing in the next video via ABSL.
2. Then expose that CPI endpoint as HTTP. Use this HTTP endpoint for the event notification webhook.

FYI...while I said CPI above, but it could even be any http endpoint like one from serverless function on AWS or on Kyma runtime.

This way no need for any ABSL script and you go really in side-by side. Just a minor observation 😊

Best

Saurabh

[Kinsbrunner]

Hi @Saurabh_Kabra,

Thanks for commenting back!

I fully agree that you could use CPI as an alternative approach; it all depends on the licenses customer has acquired. In my case, I took this approach as I assummed the customer only has a C4C subscription and BTP.

Regartding your initial comment, I do not think the approach I have taken contradicts the side-by-side principles as you will see on the upcoming videos (spoiler alert!) that the only thing I am doing within PDI is defining an action for the Service Request and call the web service. I am not adding any logic. You will also see that I trigger this action through customizing and not through code so the logic is mixed between customizing and the BTP app.

Hope everything makes sense once I finish uploading all the videos 😉

[philipphoener]

Very good video,
especially the explanation of how to implement XSUAA authentication using PDI development.