SAP API Management (SAP PRESS)

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. Notes on Usage 5 Imprint 6 Contents 7 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 SAP,API,management 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 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! *Design and architect your enterprise APIs with SAP Cloud Platform *Use traffic management, mediation, and security policies to manage the API lifecycle *Learn to monetize, monitor, analyze, and consume APIs API Lifecycle Walk through API management from end to design, management, consumption, and more. Understand how components such as the Developer Portal and API Gateway support the API lifecycle. 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. 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. *Architecture *End-to-end lifecycle *Design and development *Traffic management *Mediation *Security *Monetization *Consumption *Enterprise integration *Analytics *SAP API Business Hub "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!"-- Provided by publisher