SAP NetWeaver :: Apache Camel

URI format

The URI scheme for a sap netweaver gateway component is as follows

sap-netweaver:https://host:8080/path?username=foo&password=secret

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&…

Prerequisites

You would need to have an account to the SAP NetWeaver system to be able to leverage this component. SAP provides a demo setup where you can requires for an account.

This component uses the basic authentication scheme for logging into SAP NetWeaver.

SAPNetWeaver options

The SAP NetWeaver component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
lazyStartProducer (producer)	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	boolean
basicPropertyBinding (advanced)	Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities	false	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

The SAP NetWeaver endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

sap-netweaver:url

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
url	Required Url to the SAP net-weaver gateway server.		String

Name

Description

Default

Type

url

Required Url to the SAP net-weaver gateway server.

String

Query Parameters (8 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
flatternMap (producer)	If the JSON Map contains only a single entry, then flattern by storing that single entry value as the message body.	true	boolean
json (producer)	Whether to return data in JSON format. If this option is false, then XML is returned in Atom format.	true	boolean
jsonAsMap (producer)	To transform the JSON from a String to a Map in the message body.	true	boolean
lazyStartProducer (producer)	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	boolean
password (producer)	Required Password for account.		String
username (producer)	Required Username for account.		String
basicPropertyBinding (advanced)	Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities	false	boolean
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

flatternMap (producer)

If the JSON Map contains only a single entry, then flattern by storing that single entry value as the message body.

true

boolean

json (producer)

Whether to return data in JSON format. If this option is false, then XML is returned in Atom format.

true

boolean

jsonAsMap (producer)

To transform the JSON from a String to a Map in the message body.

true

boolean

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

password (producer)

Required Password for account.

String

username (producer)

Required Username for account.

String

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

Message Headers

The following headers can be used by the producer.

Name Type Description

Name	Type	Description
`CamelNetWeaverCommand`	`String`	Mandatory: The command to execute in MS ADO.Net Data Service format.

CamelNetWeaverCommand

String

Mandatory: The command to execute in MS ADO.Net Data Service format.

Examples

This example is using the flight demo example from SAP, which is available online over the internet here.

In the route below we request the SAP NetWeaver demo server using the following url

https://sapes1.sapdevcenter.com/sap/opu/odata/IWBEP/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT_2/

And we want to execute the following command

FlightCollection(AirLineID='AA',FlightConnectionID='0017',FlightDate=datetime'2012-08-29T00%3A00%3A00')

To get flight details for the given flight. The command syntax is in MS ADO.Net Data Service format.

We have the following Camel route

from("direct:start")
    .setHeader(NetWeaverConstants.COMMAND, constant(command))
    .toF("sap-netweaver:%s?username=%s&password=%s", url, username, password)
    .to("log:response")
    .to("velocity:flight-info.vm")

Where url, username, password and command is defined as:

    private String username = "P1909969254";
    private String password = "TODO";
    private String url = "https://sapes1.sapdevcenter.com/sap/opu/odata/IWBEP/RMTSAMPLEFLIGHT_2/";
    private String command = "FlightCollection(AirLineID='AA',FlightConnectionID='0017',FlightDate=datetime'2012-08-29T00%3A00%3A00')";

The password is invalid. You would need to create an account at SAP first to run the demo.

The velocity template is used for formatting the response to a basic HTML page

<html>
  <body>
  Flight information:

  <p/>
  <br/>Airline ID: $body["AirLineID"]
  <br/>Aircraft Type: $body["AirCraftType"]
  <br/>Departure city: $body["FlightDetails"]["DepartureCity"]
  <br/>Departure airport: $body["FlightDetails"]["DepartureAirPort"]
  <br/>Destination city: $body["FlightDetails"]["DestinationCity"]
  <br/>Destination airport: $body["FlightDetails"]["DestinationAirPort"]

  </body>
</html>

When running the application you get sample output:

Flight information:
Airline ID: AA
Aircraft Type: 747-400
Departure city: new york
Departure airport: JFK
Destination city: SAN FRANCISCO
Destination airport: SFO

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using sap-netweaver with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-sap-netweaver-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 3 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
camel.component.sap-netweaver.basic-property-binding	Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities	false	Boolean
camel.component.sap-netweaver.enabled	Whether to enable auto configuration of the sap-netweaver component. This is enabled by default.		Boolean
camel.component.sap-netweaver.lazy-start-producer	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	Boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.sap-netweaver.basic-property-binding

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

Boolean

camel.component.sap-netweaver.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the sap-netweaver component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.sap-netweaver.lazy-start-producer

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

Boolean