SAP API Management

Description

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 Imprint Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART I Getting Started 1 Introduction 1.1 Trends in Digital Business 1.2 APIs as Digital Building Blocks 1.3 Why Manage APIs? 1.4 SAP API Management: A Full-Lifecycle API Management Platform 1.5 Related and Complementary Products 1.6 Summary 2 SAP API Management at a Glance 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Introduction to the Real-World Scenario 2.3 Deploying and Running Your First API Proxy 2.4 Summary 3 Managing the End-to-End Lifecycle of APIs 3.1 Overview of the API Lifecycle 3.2 Components of SAP API Management 3.3 Lifecycle of APIs 3.4 Summary PART II Designing, Developing, and Managing Enterprise APIs 4 Developing APIs 4.1 API Development Methodology 4.2 Access the API Designer 4.3 API Providers 4.4 Develop New APIs 4.5 Add Resilience to Your APIs 4.6 Summary 5 Managing Enterprise APIs 5.1 Policy Editor Basics 5.2 Using Policies 5.3 Traffic Management 5.4 Mediation 5.5 Security 5.6 Extension 5.7 Summary 6 Traffic Management 6.1 Access Control 6.2 Concurrent Rate Limit 6.3 Quotas 6.4 Response Cache 6.5 Spike Arrest 6.6 Summary 7 Mediation 7.1 Assign Message 7.2 Extract Variables 7.3 JSON to XML 7.4 XML to JSON 7.5 Key Value Map Operations 7.6 Raise Fault 7.7 Service Callout 7.8 Summary 8 Security 8.1 Authentication 8.2 API Security Threats 8.3 Summary 9 Monetizing APIs with API Products 9.1 Create API Products and Rate Plans 9.2 View Bills 9.3 Summary PART III Consuming APIs and API Analytics 10 Consuming APIs 10.1 Building SAP Fiori Applications with SAP Web IDE 10.2 Building Native Applications with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services 10.3 Generating Integration Flows from APIs in SAP Cloud Platform Integration 10.4 Summary 11 API Analytics 11.1 Analyzing API Consumption 11.2 Developing Custom Charts 11.3 Statistics Collector Policy 11.4 Analytics on Cloud Foundry 11.5 Summary PART IV Next Steps 12 API Program 12.1 Why an API Program? 12.2 Best Practices for Setting Up an API Program 12.3 API Products and the API Product Manager 12.4 SAP’s API Program: A Case Study 12.5 SAP API Business Hub 12.6 Summary 13 Recent and Future Developments 13.1 Recent Innovations 13.2 Future Roadmap 13.3 Summary The Authors Index