SAP Remote Public API Search

To get the tool You don’t need read in further this tale. User and installation guide can be found here https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sapdev.eu/sapi

Foreword

Since embedded steampunk is on stage, the main target of side by side extensions for S/4HANA will not turn to BTP ABAP Environment, but rather to CAP also on Cloud Foundry .

The clean core headache was not really supported and still not supported with eligible number of Remote Public APIs, but for tasks of small complexity and not data intensive scenario they serve the purpose.

Remote Public API

• Exists ? => Need to search it
• Functionality covered ? Maybe, must be validated

As developer I would need some assistance to check API availability for my requirement. Not blaming, but API artifact search on api.sap.com gives me so many irrelevant results and I have to start paging for ages and read tons of descriptions of useless matches. You might noticed Joule Chat available on api.sap.com to ask, but that might increase Your disappointment.

Your company or clients wants delivery, and not burn money on feasibility and API coverage validation for days just be able to tell something can be realized at all.

Developer mind thinks in writing utility or code to solve an issue or speed it up, always! Also when that is not needed, because We like coding! If You’re a person like that, You need to learn to stop that bad habit. So I created a utility again to speed up my daily activities, but this time writing zero line of code. Sometimes enough to have some creativity or a good idea, because your GitHub CoPilot subscription does the rest , especially with zero code quality requirement, due the stuff might be thrown away . Nevertheless having a good SAP Press book about node.js gives you the ground how to instruct.

Search Utility

As experienced SAP Developer I know the terminology I am looking for. I need exact matches and a compact display with good overview for fast access and identification, not more, not a jungle.

The utility is nothing more just a simple html table to search in S/4HANA API Name and Description, highlight it, then navigate to the the API Overview at api.sap.com where login is required.

User and installation guide can be found here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sapdev.eu/sapi

I hope some find that useful. Contribution back to the SAP Community is very important. It is not only taking but giving when You have the possibility.