Access External Service

SAP Mobile Platform Server can also be used to access OData services that are provided by any external OData provider. The proxy URL supports read (HTTP GET), create (HTTP POST), update (HTTP PUT), and delete (HTTP DELETE).

Syntax

Perform an HTTP request at the following URL:

http[s]://<host:port>/[public/]/[connectionName]

Parameters

connectionName – connection name of the whitelisted URL
Note: If an application is configured for anonymous access, the request-response is made using the same user credentials provided in "Allow anonymous connections" field for defining the backend connection in Management Cockpit.

Returns

If successful, returns a response from the back end and a response body.

Examples

Access external service – HTTP request header:

GET /com.sap.myapp HTTP/1.1
Cookie: X-SMP-APPCID=<XXXX>; X-SMP-SESSID=<XXXX> 
Host: smpserver:8080
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.3 (java 1.5)
Authorization: Basic <XXXX>

HTTP response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/atomsvc+xml
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: X-SMP-APPCID=<XXXX>
server: SAP NetWeaver Application Server / ABAP 731
dataserviceversion: 2.0
set-cookie: SAP_SESSIONID_DG1_001=<Some-Token>; path=/
set-cookie: MYSAPSSO2=<SSO-Token>; path=/; domain=.sap.com
Content-Length: 2651