SAP BPA Updating API specification deletes all previous Actions

[MMonis]

There seems to be some major bugs in the SAP BPA tool. The more I work with it, the more frustrating it is 😤

One of them is if you have an Actions project with some endpoints pointing to a CAP service and if for some reason you update the CAP service with new actions/functions/entities, it deletes all the previous actions within the Actions project and you need to start all over again.

I have a CAP service that exposes an action called myAction1. I then have an Actions Project in SAP Build which consumes the actions exposed by the CAP service via a destination.  So for the first time I am able to add myAction1 to the Actions project

And myAction1 appears fine.

I then add another action in my CAP service called myAction2 and deploy it to BTP.  In SAP Build Actions Project, the new endpoint myAction2 doesn't show up which is fine as it doesn't have the updated specification.

I then click on Update API Specification in the Actions project and it takes me through some steps where it now shows the myAction2 endpoint.

At the end of these steps, it shows me a dialog with an Update button. In the background of the popup, it still shows myAction1 that was added and saved.

When I then click on Update, it shows a popup asking to choose the endpoints and it removes the existing myAction1 entry that was already saved. I choose myAction2 to add.

myAction1 has disappeared and I would have to add it all over again.

There should be a way to update the API specification without the existing actions getting deleted from the project. Can this be fixed or a workaround to this ?

Regards,

Melwyn.

[MMonis]

Spoke to the team at SAP TechEd and they acknowledged that this is a bug in the tool. Will be raising a customer influence request and will share it here so we can get this resolved.

Regards,

Melwyn