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Contents
REST API ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
Resource Provider Class ................................................................................................................................ 2
Create Resource Provider Class ................................................................................................................ 2
Implement Resource Provider Class ......................................................................................................... 4
GET Method .......................................................................................................................................... 4
POST Method ........................................................................................................................................ 7
PUT Method .......................................................................................................................................... 8
DELETE Method..................................................................................................................................... 9
Request Handler Class ................................................................................................................................ 10
Create Request Handler Class ................................................................................................................. 10
Implement Request Handler Class .......................................................................................................... 11
Define and Test the Services ....................................................................................................................... 13
Create the service ................................................................................................................................... 13
Test the Service ....................................................................................................................................... 15
Testing using Postman Tool ........................................................................................................................ 17
Get Request ............................................................................................................................................ 17
Post Request ........................................................................................................................................... 17
PUT Request ............................................................................................................................................ 19
DELETE Request ...................................................................................................................................... 20
Consume GET and POST REST API............................................................................................................... 21
Consume GET request............................................................................................................................. 21
Consume POST request........................................................................................................................... 23

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REST API
REST API is a Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface
REST API is consumed using HTTP protocol
Its standard methods are GET, POST, PUT, and Delete.
Get request is used to get the details from the resource
Post request is used to create the resource.
Put request is used to update the existing resource.
Delete is used to delete the resource.
ABAP provides tools to create and consume RESTful APIs to integrate with other systems.
CL_REST_RESOURCE as standard class and it contains HTTP methods.
CL_REST_HTTP_HANDLER a standard class used to handle the Request

Resource Provider Class

Create Resource Provider Class
Create a Resource Provider Class and add class CL_REST_RESOURCE as a super class

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Class - CL_REST_RESOURCE and its methods

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Implement Resource Provider Class

GET Method
Redefine the Get Method to get the resource details

Get method has no parameters.

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Use MO_REQUEST to get the requested URI details

Use MO_RESPONSE to send the resource details

Methods of the Interface IF_REST_REQUEST

Methods of the Interface IF_REST_RESPONSE

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Implementation for the GET method to get the resource details

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POST Method
Implementation for POST method to create resource, POST method has no parameters.
Use MO_REQUEST to get the request details.

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PUT Method
Redefine the Put method to update the Student details

Put method has one parameter

Implement the Put method to update the student table data

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DELETE Method
Redefine the Delete method to delete the table record

Delete method has no parameters

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Implement the Delete method to delete the record

Request Handler Class

Create Request Handler Class
Create a Request Handler Class and add the class CL_REST_HTTP_HANDLER as a super class

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Class - CL_REST_HTTP_HANDLER and its methods

Implement Request Handler Class

Method GET_ROOT_HANDLER redefinition is mandatory

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Redefine the GET_ROOT_HANDLER Method

Method GET_ROOT_HANDLER has one parameter

Implement the GET_ROOT_HANDLER to call the Resource Provider class.

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Define and Test the Services

Create the service
Tcode – SICF to create the service and add the Request Handler class as a Handler

Click on the Host/Service by selecting the default_host

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Provide the service name

Add the Handler class

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Activate the Service

Test the Service

Right click on the required service and click on the Test service

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Here, error will be shown without passing Resources Name

Send the request with adding the resource name to the URI

Tcode- /iwfnd/gw_client, send the Get request from the gateway client

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Testing using Postman Tool

Get Request
Student details are fetched using GET request

Post Request
Table date before posting

CSRF Token validation is required while posting.

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Get the CSRF Token using GET request by adding key as x-csrf-token and value as fetch to request
headers

Copy CSRF token from the response header of GET response

Add the CSRF token to the Post request header

Request body

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Post executed successful.

Data is inserted into table

PUT Request
Add the CSRF token to the request header

Add the request body

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Student table data is updated

DELETE Request
Send the Delete request

Response of delete request

Requested Record has been deleted in the student table

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Consume GET and POST REST API

Consume GET request
Implementation to get the REST API Resource details

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Consume POST request

Implementation to create the REST API Resource details

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