BTP Destination creation using REST endpoints/CLI

[former_member940644]

Hello,

I am familiar with creating SCP CF Destinations by filling some parameters in BTP Cockpit UI. However, our requirement is to create this destination through pipelines (Like a separate stage in CI/CD). We are neither able to find any REST endpoints nor any CLI commands that SAP provides that will fulfil this purpose.

Has anyone already tried this or is it really possible ?

Any help would be really appreciated on this.

Thank you!!

[gregorw]

Hi Anu,

don't forget to mark one of the answers as the solution.

Best Regards
Gregor

[gregorw]

I would suggest that you checkout what you can do using a mta.yaml. I have an example which creates the destinations required for the HTML5 repository access:

https://github.com/gregorwolf/cap-websockets/blob/main/mta.yaml#L71

Check also this issue Example: SAP CP Destinations #39 in the CF MTA Example repository.

[mig1]

Successfully tried it out!

cf create-service 'destination' 'lite' 'destination-instance-1' -c 'config.json' --wait  

--or--  

cf update-service 'destination-instance-1' -c 'config.json' --wait

config.json  

{
    "HTML5Runtime_enabled" : "false",
    "init_data" : {
        "instance" : {
            "existing_destinations_policy": "update",
            "destinations" : [
                {
                    "Authentication": "NoAuthentication",
                    "Name": "UI5",
                    "ProxyType": "Internet",
                    "Type": "HTTP",
                    "URL": "https://ui5.sap.com"
                },
                {
                    "Authentication": "BasicAuthentication",
                    "Name": "sap-ecc",
                    "Description": "sap-ecc",
                    "ProxyType": "OnPremise",
                    "Type": "HTTP",
                    "URL": "http://sap-ecc.local:80",
                    "CloudConnectorLocationId": "CITRIX_VM",
                    "User": "RFCPMMOBIXXX",
                    "Password": "**********"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

[dr_vup]

Really cool! Thanks for sharing

[CarlosRoggan]

Hi Anu

1) Similar to other services, you can create a service instance of destination service with provided JSON-parameter-file.
In this file you can pass your destination configurations.
To learn about the file format, you can just export an existing destination configuration to file system

2) To use the REST API, you can have a look at the docu and the REST API reference

Does this help?

Kind Regards,

Carlos

[mig1]

Haven't tried it yet, but I am about to. Should be possible via CLI?

cf create-service destination lite 'my-destination-service-1' -c config.json

See https://help.sap.com/docs/CP_CONNECTIVITY/cca91383641e40ffbe03bdc78f00f681/6816d3caeb464f8d8b0d1b5ad... for info about the config.json parameter options.