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.

Highlights Include:

1. Architecture
2. End-to-end lifecycle
3. Design and development
4. Traffic management
5. Mediation
6. Security
7. Monetization
8. Consumption
9. Enterprise integration
10. Analytics
11. SAP API Business Hub

Learn to monetize, monitor, analyze, and consume APIs

Autorentext
Shilpa Vij is a senior product manager for SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. She started her professional journey at Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd as a C++ developer. She received her bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering in 2007 and then worked towards being a business analyst, pursuing her passion for client interfacing and consultancy roles. Shilpa has spent a decade at SAP Labs India, where she has been a seasoned cloud engineering expert, program lead, product expert, and now works as a product manager.At SAP, she is dedicated to and contributes to product and customer success. Day-to-day, Shilpa works globally across industries with customers and integration experts for product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining the product vision. She also works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. She provides enablement sessions and expert-level workshops in the areas of SAP Integration Suite. Currently, her area of interest lies in discovering and projecting product management as an art. She is a co-author of SAP API Management from SAP PRESS.

Inhalt
... 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