SAP Process Automation Action Open API

[parab_neha]

Hello,

In my existing workflow service , I have service task which calls odata service(Post method) from ECC system. Destination is created using Basic authentication. As I understood, similar is possible with action project. As a first step of creating action project I need to provide openapi spec of json type. How to get this open api file from existing odata service ? How can I create API from odata service ?

Thanks,

Neha Rane.

[tobias_breyer]

Hi Neha,

have you checked the respective API page on api.sap.com? Technically, it is possible that besides the OData-related EDMX format, API documentation can also be made available in other formats, like OpenAPI YAML or JSON.

Regards,

Tobias

[parab_neha]

Hi Tobias,

I am using custom odata service . So it is not available on api.sap.com.

Thanks,

Neha Rane

[nishantbansal91]

Hello Neha,

I also have the similar case. I need to consume the approvers from API( ABAP on Cloud Service) into process automation.

I am trying to consume it via action project. But I didn't get how to generate the open API specification for custom oData service.

Which information needs to pass to below tool.

I tried to pass the metadata file of the service in the .xml format and it downloaded the empty file

https://convert.odata-openapi.net/

[Karthik-Thiru]

Hi Nishant,

It is not needed anymore to generate Open API spec from the OData metadata. Actions already supports direct upload of OData specification file. You can download the $metadata response of your OData API into a .xml file and then upload this file during the Action creation.

Additionally, soon there would be a feature to create Actions from a BTP destination pointing to a OData API, which would be simpler than the current approach to download and upload specification file.