{"id":2764,"date":"2016-01-26T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2016-01-26T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:37:42","slug":"sap-bapis-and-hp-oo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"sap bapis and hp oo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple quick notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>{{SAP}} is not designed for automated \/ programmatic access &#8211; their &#8220;{{BAPI}}&#8221;, or <strong>binary<\/strong> application programming interface, requires\u00a0<em>additional<\/em> licensing beyond just the product to use\n<ul>\n<li>I made the naive assumption that a &#8220;BAPI&#8221; was like a {{WSDL}} &#8211; and it is, but it&#8217;s proprietary, not open (and it&#8217;s binary, not plaintext {{XML}})<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>{{HP Operations Orchestration}} requires an additional, ie not out-of-the-box, content pack and wizard to import SAP BAPIs to make operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Runbook#Runbook_Automation\">power<\/a> of OO\u00a0<em>can<\/em> be brought to bear with SAP and imported BAPIs &#8211; with the following\u00a0gotchas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can only have one BAPI call in a given flow<\/li>\n<li>If you want to call more than one BAPI for a given task, you need to have them split into their own subflows, and call the subflows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully you won&#8217;t need to know this. But if you do, I&#8217;m happy to save you some of the headaches I have experienced interoperating with SAP &amp; OO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple quick notes: {{SAP}} is not designed for automated \/ programmatic access &#8211; their &#8220;{{BAPI}}&#8221;, or binary application programming interface, requires\u00a0additional licensing beyond just the product to use I made the naive assumption that a &#8220;BAPI&#8221; was like a {{WSDL}} &#8211; and it is, but it&#8217;s proprietary, not open (and it&#8217;s binary, not plaintext {{XML}}) &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2764\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">sap bapis and hp oo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,19,41],"tags":[131,393,654],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaint","category-hmmm","category-technical","tag-bapi","tag-hpoo","tag-sap"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}