SAP CAP, HDI and Datasphere

[manuelbordallo]

Hello collegues,

For a customer we are developing a SAP CAP application with Hana capabilities. Before this project I have always used HDI container active on the same subaccount to connect CAP with Hana.

But now, we have two subaccounts:

• Development: we develop SAPUI5 and CAP applications. HDI container service is not active.
• Datasphere: we have the Datasphere service active and instance running.

We need to connect CAP application with Datasphere. I have asked to active HDI container service in Development subaccount but the manager rejected it.

So, my question is... is it possible to connect from CAP to Datasphere without HDI container in Development subaccount?

If the answer is yet, is it right to do and how can be achieved?

Thank you very much in advance Community!!!

BR,

Manuel

[Vitaliy-R]

Do you plan to only read data from Datasphere, or do you plan to write anything back to Datasphere from the CAP app?

[martinstenzig]

You can also reference the Datasphere HANA DB as the storage for your CAP app. It's not as straightforward as the prior answer, but it allows you to have local data for your Datasphere views and CAP apps. 

[pratik_doshi997]

HI @manuelbordallo ,

You can expose datasphere objects as an API.
These APIS can be consumed in your CAP Application; of course, you need to create a destination for this in your BTP account.