SAC OData - How to connect API with Authentication Bearer

[Jean-Yves_A]

Hi everyone, can someone help me find a solution!

We have some devices called "TERM", used mainly to collect data. These data are saved in a MDM platform (Mobile Device Management). Our objective is to extract these data from MDM into SAP Analytics Cloud for reporting purpose.

The manufacturer of TERM give access to these data only through API (Application Programming Language). He gave us : (1) URL that points to the MDM and (2) Authentication bearer which is a token used normally in the coding part.

While trying to connect this to SAC, we figure out that SAC doesn't support natively this kind of API (OData connection). See "OData connection - Authentication type" list image below. None of OData connection allow us to enter the Authentication Bearer as parameter..

Since the objective is to send data in SAC, preferably in form of Data Model, can someone help me find out how this can be done in SAC please ?

By the way, API Url + Anthentication Bearer have been tested and work perfectly in Postman.

Thank you in advance for your help !

Jean-Yves.

[MatthiasL]

Fairly sure authorization code here is synonymous for bearer.

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ANALYTICS_CLOUD/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/1c1e36eeb99e420aa20eb...

[Jean-Yves_A]

Hi MatthiasL,

Thanks for your prompt feedback. I already went through this same link before and indeed it seems that this refers also to the same authentication type list I presented previously in my post.

Except error, we can see for example that in the pre requisite for this option you can even see that "token request with URL encoded" is needed as well as "CLient ID" and Client "Secret Encoded".. which I clearly don't have.

I'm afraid this is not exactly the solution for my case yet.

Thank you so far,