SAP Cloud Integration with May 2022 release provides a simplified feature to consume the integration adapter from SAP API Business Hub in your Integration Suite tenant.
To understand how the integration adapter consumption experience is simplified, lets us try to understand the current consumption model along with a simple scenario.
Scenario - SAP publishes the Dropbox integration adapter in the shipment channel. ABC Corp customer would like to consume the integration adapter in the Integration Suite tenant which is based on the premium edition.
You would have consumed many integration adapters content from the SAP Software Download centre. Nevertheless, let us understand the workflow in a brief
The current consumption model for consuming the integration adapter from SAP Software Download Centre has certain drawbacks and let us try to understand.
In the new approach, we replace SAP Software Download Center with SAP API Business Hub.
Let us understand the above workflow in a brief.
Now lets us infer the benefits from this new consumption model
Now let us experience the new consumption experience for consuming integration adapter from API Business Hub in SAP Integration Suite by taking Dropbox adapter as an example
Prior that let us understand how to explore integration adapters in SAP API Business Hub and embedded discover view of integration suite tenant.
You can connect to New SAP API Business Hub api.sap.com and explore the categories. One of the categories would be “Adapters”.Image 1: Select Category "Adapters"
In this category, you can explore all the adapters from SAP and SAP Partners(SAP OEM Partners). As of now we have Dropbox adapter. But many more integration adapters will come in near future.
Image 2: Dropbox Adapter Tile
Each tile represents the adapter and on click of the tile, it will open the adapter viewer which will provide the details such as overview, documentation, Type of Adapter, Vendor, Service plan and Application.Image3: Dropbox adapter viewer
Overview – It will contain the key highlights of the integration adapter for an e.g., which connectivity solution, the adapter is going to offer and another configuration aspects.
Adapter Type - Integration adapter is categorized based on the Type. Some of the examples of Type are Technical, Storage, CRM, HCM etc. This will help to group the adapters based on Type.
Vendor – This field signifies whether the offering is from SAP or from its Partner.
Application – Adapter are meant to solve some connectivity issue. With the Application, you can make out with which application the adapter is going to offer connectivity.
Service plan - This is alias which will educate user whether the adapter is available in the standard and onwards editions or Basic and onwards editions. You can refer the SAP Note to know the exact mapping between the service plan alias and integration suite editions.
Documents – This section contains the documentation/help link/readme/changelog to provide more insight on the integration adapters.
You can also explore the integration adapter from the embedded discover view of your integration suite tenant if it is connected to the SAP API Business Hub.
Open embedded discover view in your integration suite tenantImage1: Embedded discover view of Integration Suite tenant
Search the Dropbox integration adapter
Image 2: Search dropbox adapter in the discover view
Open the Dropbox adapter package and understand the key feature of the dropbox adapter. Support information field in the overview section will guide you to get an appropriate support from SAP regarding the adapter.Image 3: Dropbox adapter overview section
Explore the overview and documents section to know more about Dropbox adapterImage4: Dropbox adapter documents
Once you are done with the exploration of the Integration adapter from SAP API Business Hub and embedded discover view, you would like to consume the integration adapter in your integration flow to address your integration use case.
In this section, I will explain you how to consume the integration adapter in the integration flow without any context switch.
To consume the integration adapter in SAP Integration Suite tenant, you must follow the below mentioned steps
Create an Integration package in your Integration suite tenant.
Image 1: Create integration package
Create an integration flow in the integration package.
Image 2: Create integration flow
Edit integration flow to consume a dropbox adapter
Image 3: Integration flow edited to draw a connector
Draw a connector between Sender and Integration Process and select the Dropbox adapter from the Adapter selection dialog. As you know this dialog contains the pre-bundled adapters such as SOAP, HTTPS, AMQP, JMS etc. In addition to this, it will show all the integration adapters from SAP API Business Hub as well. Please note, if your Integration suite tenant is not standard and premium, you will not notice Dropbox adapter in the selection dialog. Select the Dropbox adapter.
Image 4: Adapter selection dialog containing Dropbox Adapter
On selection, Dropbox adapter package will be automatically copied/imported in the design workspace, and Dropbox adapter artifact will be deployed on the tenant. Both these operations will happen back-to-back automatically to avoid any context switching for you.Image 5: Automatic import of the Dropbox adapter package in the design workspace
Image 6: Automatic deploy of the Dropbox adapter on the tenant
Now you can configure the Dropbox adapter in the integration flow and later you can deploy integration flow for message processing.Image 1: Dropbox adapter general properties
Image 2: Dropbox adapter connection properties
Image 3: Dropbox adapter processing properties
Similarly, you can configure the scheduler properties of dropbox adapter and later deploy the integration flow.Image 4: Integration flow deployed for message processing
As you know that the selection of the integration adapter in the integration flow will automatically import adapter package in the design workspace and deploy the adapter on the tenant.
You will notice Dropbox adapter package in the design workspace.Image 1: Dropbox adapter package in the design workspace
Image2: Dropbox adapter in the monitoring view
I hope you were able consume the Dropbox adapter in your integration flow as depicted in the above steps.
Adapter Lifecyle
Like any other standard content, the package that contains the adapter supports SAP Business Accelerator Hub lifecycle operations. Every time a new version of the adapter is published to the Hub, you see Update Available notification for the package in your design workspace. You have to follow the below mentioned steps to consume the new version of the adapter from SAP Business Accelerator.
Points to remember
Future Increments
I hope, you will benefit from the feature presented in this blog post.
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