Create Application Connection

Syntax

Perform an HTTP POST request at the following URL:

http[s]://<host:port>/[public/]/odata/applications/{v1|latest}/{appid}/Connections

Parameters

• appid – The application ID that uniquely identifies the application.
  Note: If an application is configured for anonymous access using Management Cockpit, the registration is successful irrespective of wrong or no credentials present in the authorization header.

Returns

If successful, a 201 Created status code is returned, and the new application connection settings are included in the response body.

Examples

• Create application connection – Example HTTP request header:

  POST /odata/applications/v1/com.sap.myapp/Connections HTTP/1.1
  Content-Length: 4704
  Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8
  Host: smpserver:8080
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.3 (java 1.5)
  Authorization: Basic <XXXX>
  

  Example HTTP response header:

  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Content-Type: application/atom+xml;charset=utf-8
  Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
  Set-Cookie: X-SMP-SESSID=<XXXX>;Path=/
  Set-Cookie: X-SMP-APPCID=<XXXX>
  Location: http:/smpserver:8080/applications/Connections('b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771')
  DataServiceVersion: 1.0
  Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:40:50 GMT
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked

  Response body:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <entry xml:base="http://localhost:8080/public/odata/applications/v1/com.sap.myapp/"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"
  xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
    <content type="application/xml">
      <m:properties>
      </m:properties>
    </content>
  </entry>