Update Application Settings (MERGE)

Syntax

Perform a MERGE request at the following URL:

http://host:port/[public/]odata/applications/{v1|latest}/{appid}/Connections(‘{appcid}’)

Parameters

• appid – The application ID that uniquely identifies the application.
• appcid – The application connection ID of the application instance interacting with the service.

Returns

If successful, returns a 200 OK status code.

If you never explicitly registered the client, returns a 404 status code.

Examples

• Update application settings (MERGE) – HTTP request header:

  POST /odata/applications/v1/com.sap.myapp/Connections('b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771') HTTP/1.1  
  X-HTTP-METHOD:MERGE  
  Cookie: X-SUP-APPCID=b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771; X-SUP-SESSID=97ts80gwhxkc  
  Content-Length: 4768
  Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8
  Host: supserver:8000
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.3 (java 1.5)
  Authorization: Basic REVWMDAwMTppbml0aWFs

  [MERGE HTTP request message body]

  HTTP request body:

  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
    <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
      xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" 
      xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
      <title type="text"/>
      <updated>2012-06-15T02:23:29Z</updated>
      <author>
        <name/>
       </author>
       <category term="applications.Connection" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme"/>
         <content type="application/xml">
         <m:properties>
           <d:DeviceType>Unknown</d:DeviceType>
           …
         </m:properties>
         </content>
    </entry>

  HTTP response header:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Length: 0
  Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
  Set-Cookie: X-SUP-APPCID=b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771
  DataServiceVersion: 1.0
  Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:13:04 GMT