SAP API Management
1st Edition
Published on 28. December 2019
Book
Hardback
365 pages
978-1-4932-1860-8 (ISBN)
Description
Unpack your API toolkit with this guide to SAP API Management. Learn how to use the API Designer to create enterprise APIs and discover how to manage their lifecycle. Walk through key processes that optimize your APIs and keep them running smoothly: traffic management, mediation, security, and monetization. Get expert guidance on building applications, generating integration flows, and running analytics. Master API management from end to end
In this book, you'll learn about:
a. API Lifecycle
Walk through API management from end to end: design, management, consumption, and more. Understand how components such as the Developer Portal and API Gateway support the API lifecycle.
b. Key Processes
Make the most of your APIs. See how to monitor traffic; perform message transformation, parsing, and validation; handle API security threats; and monetize API products.
c. Consumption and Analytics
Get your APIs working for you. Learn how to consume APIs in SAP Fiori apps, mobile apps built with SAP Mobile Services, and more. Then, analyze API consumption to gain insight into usage trends and performance.
Highlights Include:
1) Architecture
2) End-to-end lifecycle
3) Design and development
4) Traffic management
5) Mediation
6) Security
7) Monetization
8) Consumption
9) Enterprise integration
10) Analytics
11) SAP API Business Hub
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Persons
Author
Carsten Bönnen received his M.A. in Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence in Germany in 2001 and started working at SAP that same year. Initially a Java developer and trainer, he soon became a consultant and led strategic projects in the then-new field of enterprise portals. By the end of 2002, he became a product manager for SAP NetWeaver Portal. A year later, he took on responsibility for a new product, which later became known as Visual Composer; subsequently, he managed the complete UI topic in this area. Looking for a new challenge in 2008, he joined the Microsoft Strategic Alliance Management group, which oversees the strategic alliance between SAP and Microsoft. Carsten remained in this role for four years before he joined the SAP NetWeaver Gateway product management team in 2012. Beyond his business-specific activities at SAP, he founded the first SAP karate group in 2005, which he continues to lead today.
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Harsh Jegadeesan is the vice president and head of product management for SAP´s integration and API platform. Harsh helps enterprises to craft and execute their digital strategies by accelerating integration and opening up to real-time digital interactions with APIs. Harsh was instrumental in establishing SAP´s own global API program and the SAP API Business Hub-a marketplace for enterprise APIs. Harsh has broad experience in enterprise technology across applications (SAP ERP, SAP CRM), data management, and cloud business platforms. Harsh loves mentoring designers, developers, and product managers to help them build blockbuster products. Harsh is a computer scientist by training and holds a PhD in computer science.
Divya Mary works for SAP SE within the product management team for SAP Cloud Platform Integration. She has worked at SAP for more than 14 years. Before starting at SAP, Divya received her bachelor's in Technology in Electronics and Telecommunication in India.
Shilpa Vij is a senior product manager for SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. She started her professional journey at Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd as a C++ developer. She received her bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2007 and then worked towards being a business analyst, pursuing her passion for client interfacing and consultancy roles. Shilpa has spent a decade at SAP Labs India, where she has been a seasoned cloud engineering expert, program lead, product expert, and now works as a product manager.At SAP, she is dedicated to and contributes to product and customer success. Day-to-day, Shilpa works globally across industries with customers and integration experts for product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining the product vision. She also works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. She provides enablement sessions and expert-level workshops in the areas of SAP Integration Suite. Currently, her area of interest lies in discovering and projecting product management as an art. She is a co-author of SAP API Management from SAP PRESS.
Content
... Foreword ... 15
... Preface ... 17
... Acknowledgments ... 19
PART I ... Getting Started ... 21
1 ... Introduction ... 23
1.1 ... Trends in Digital Business ... 24
1.2 ... APIs as Digital Building Blocks ... 28
1.3 ... Why Manage APIs? ... 33
1.4 ... SAP API Management: A Full-Lifecycle API Management Platform ... 39
1.5 ... Related and Complementary Products ... 42
1.6 ... Summary ... 43
2 ... SAP API Management at a Glance ... 45
2.1 ... Architecture ... 45
2.2 ... Introduction to the Real-World Scenario ... 48
2.3 ... Deploying and Running Your First API Proxy ... 52
2.4 ... Summary ... 62
3 ... Managing the End-to-End Lifecycle of APIs ... 63
3.1 ... Overview of the API Lifecycle ... 63
3.2 ... Components of SAP API Management ... 67
3.3 ... Lifecycle of APIs ... 103
3.4 ... Summary ... 119
PART II ... Designing, Developing, and Managing Enterprise APIs ... 121
4 ... Developing APIs ... 123
4.1 ... API Development Methodology ... 123
4.2 ... Access the API Designer ... 125
4.3 ... API Providers ... 126
4.4 ... Develop New APIs ... 135
4.5 ... Add Resilience to Your APIs ... 150
4.6 ... Summary ... 152
5 ... Managing Enterprise APIs ... 153
5.1 ... Policy Editor Basics ... 153
5.2 ... Using Policies ... 156
5.3 ... Traffic Management ... 158
5.4 ... Mediation ... 160
5.5 ... Security ... 162
5.6 ... Extension ... 164
5.7 ... Summary ... 166
6 ... Traffic Management ... 167
6.1 ... Access Control ... 168
6.2 ... Concurrent Rate Limit ... 170
6.3 ... Quotas ... 177
6.4 ... Response Cache ... 181
6.5 ... Spike Arrest ... 184
6.6 ... Summary ... 186
7 ... Mediation ... 187
7.1 ... Assign Message ... 188
7.2 ... Extract Variables ... 195
7.3 ... JSON to XML ... 200
7.4 ... XML to JSON ... 205
7.5 ... Key Value Map Operations ... 208
7.6 ... Raise Fault ... 212
7.7 ... Service Callout ... 214
7.8 ... Summary ... 217
8 ... Security ... 219
8.1 ... Authentication ... 220
8.2 ... API Security Threats ... 241
8.3 ... Summary ... 248
9 ... Monetizing APIs with API Products ... 251
9.1 ... Create API Products and Rate Plans ... 252
9.2 ... View Bills ... 263
9.3 ... Summary ... 265
PART III ... Consuming APIs and API Analytics ... 267
10 ... Consuming APIs ... 269
10.1 ... Building SAP Fiori Applications with SAP Web IDE ... 270
10.2 ... Building Native Applications with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services ... 290
10.3 ... Generating Integration Flows from APIs in SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 305
10.4 ... Summary ... 309
11 ... API Analytics ... 311
11.1 ... Analyzing API Consumption ... 312
11.2 ... Developing Custom Charts ... 315
11.3 ... Statistics Collector Policy ... 317
11.4 ... Analytics on Cloud Foundry ... 320
11.5 ... Summary ... 323
PART IV ... Next Steps ... 325
12 ... API Program ... 327
12.1 ... Why an API Program? ... 328
12.2 ... Best Practices for Setting Up an API Program ... 330
12.3 ... API Products and the API Product Manager ... 333
12.4 ... SAP's API Program: A Case Study ... 336
12.5 ... SAP API Business Hub ... 339
12.6 ... Summary ... 344
13 ... Recent and Future Developments ... 345
13.1 ... Recent Innovations ... 345
13.2 ... Future Roadmap ... 351
13.3 ... Summary ... 354
... The Authors ... 355
... Index ... 357
... Preface ... 17
... Acknowledgments ... 19
PART I ... Getting Started ... 21
1 ... Introduction ... 23
1.1 ... Trends in Digital Business ... 24
1.2 ... APIs as Digital Building Blocks ... 28
1.3 ... Why Manage APIs? ... 33
1.4 ... SAP API Management: A Full-Lifecycle API Management Platform ... 39
1.5 ... Related and Complementary Products ... 42
1.6 ... Summary ... 43
2 ... SAP API Management at a Glance ... 45
2.1 ... Architecture ... 45
2.2 ... Introduction to the Real-World Scenario ... 48
2.3 ... Deploying and Running Your First API Proxy ... 52
2.4 ... Summary ... 62
3 ... Managing the End-to-End Lifecycle of APIs ... 63
3.1 ... Overview of the API Lifecycle ... 63
3.2 ... Components of SAP API Management ... 67
3.3 ... Lifecycle of APIs ... 103
3.4 ... Summary ... 119
PART II ... Designing, Developing, and Managing Enterprise APIs ... 121
4 ... Developing APIs ... 123
4.1 ... API Development Methodology ... 123
4.2 ... Access the API Designer ... 125
4.3 ... API Providers ... 126
4.4 ... Develop New APIs ... 135
4.5 ... Add Resilience to Your APIs ... 150
4.6 ... Summary ... 152
5 ... Managing Enterprise APIs ... 153
5.1 ... Policy Editor Basics ... 153
5.2 ... Using Policies ... 156
5.3 ... Traffic Management ... 158
5.4 ... Mediation ... 160
5.5 ... Security ... 162
5.6 ... Extension ... 164
5.7 ... Summary ... 166
6 ... Traffic Management ... 167
6.1 ... Access Control ... 168
6.2 ... Concurrent Rate Limit ... 170
6.3 ... Quotas ... 177
6.4 ... Response Cache ... 181
6.5 ... Spike Arrest ... 184
6.6 ... Summary ... 186
7 ... Mediation ... 187
7.1 ... Assign Message ... 188
7.2 ... Extract Variables ... 195
7.3 ... JSON to XML ... 200
7.4 ... XML to JSON ... 205
7.5 ... Key Value Map Operations ... 208
7.6 ... Raise Fault ... 212
7.7 ... Service Callout ... 214
7.8 ... Summary ... 217
8 ... Security ... 219
8.1 ... Authentication ... 220
8.2 ... API Security Threats ... 241
8.3 ... Summary ... 248
9 ... Monetizing APIs with API Products ... 251
9.1 ... Create API Products and Rate Plans ... 252
9.2 ... View Bills ... 263
9.3 ... Summary ... 265
PART III ... Consuming APIs and API Analytics ... 267
10 ... Consuming APIs ... 269
10.1 ... Building SAP Fiori Applications with SAP Web IDE ... 270
10.2 ... Building Native Applications with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services ... 290
10.3 ... Generating Integration Flows from APIs in SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 305
10.4 ... Summary ... 309
11 ... API Analytics ... 311
11.1 ... Analyzing API Consumption ... 312
11.2 ... Developing Custom Charts ... 315
11.3 ... Statistics Collector Policy ... 317
11.4 ... Analytics on Cloud Foundry ... 320
11.5 ... Summary ... 323
PART IV ... Next Steps ... 325
12 ... API Program ... 327
12.1 ... Why an API Program? ... 328
12.2 ... Best Practices for Setting Up an API Program ... 330
12.3 ... API Products and the API Product Manager ... 333
12.4 ... SAP's API Program: A Case Study ... 336
12.5 ... SAP API Business Hub ... 339
12.6 ... Summary ... 344
13 ... Recent and Future Developments ... 345
13.1 ... Recent Innovations ... 345
13.2 ... Future Roadmap ... 351
13.3 ... Summary ... 354
... The Authors ... 355
... Index ... 357