We are trying to access BI Publisher reports that are created in our OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) via SOAP or REST API's.
When we try to access a report directly via browser UI (https://xx.xx.xx.xxx:443/xmlpserver) we are able to view (or attain) the results.
However, we were not able to achieve it via either of the API's (SOAP or REST).
We are suspecting any configuration (or settings) needed on the OBIEE end, but unable to figure out the root cause that is blocking (frequently returning random errors) the API calls.
Please advise on the settings needed.
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I am trying to fetch BI Publisher report's data created in our OBIEE 12c environment.
We are using REST API's as mentioned in this document.
Also, we are exploring options of SOAP API methods using WSDL - https://6x.xx.xx.xxx:9502/xmlpserver/services/ExternalReportWSSService?WSDL
But the results were not found in SOAP UI and Postman for SOAP API and REST API respectively.
Eventually, we are able to fetch the results of Subject area and Analysis created in OBIEE 12c using SOAP methods.
https://6x.xx.xx.xxx:9502/analytics-ws/saw.dll?wsdl
Let us know if there is any specific configuration needed in our Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition(OBIEE 12c).
I have a UI5 Application hosted on SAP NEO which retrieves Data via an ABAP OData Service.
Users are maintained in SAP Cloud Identity and mapped with their Backenduser and the login is setup via Principal Propagation. This is all setup and works.
I got requested to change the Application to enable External Sales Representatives without SAP Backend Users to use the application.
The idea is to use one "technical user" with Basic Authentication instead of Principal Propagation.
My question is what would be the way to identify the original Cloud Username in ABAP(since there sy-uname would be a technical user).
Debugging in ABAP didn't reveal the original information and I am afraid the original User is not even passed to the Gateway
The SAP Cloud User API (https://help.sap.com/viewer/65de2977205c403bbc107264b8eccf4b/Cloud/en-US/1de599bf722446849d2b2e10132df42a.html) is not an option because the request could be manipulated in the browser
I heard of another option using a Java Servlet. But I am afraid that means we have to setup there the whole OData Service again and with every change in the Gateway we have to adjust the Java Servlet as well, or is there maybe a proxy.
If you are using Mobile Services of SAP Cloud Platform, you can activate a header with the username to be transferred to your ABAP system. It's called X-SMP-ENDUSERNAME.
Ref the documentation at https://help.sap.com/viewer/38dbd9fbb49240f3b4d954e92335e670/Cloud/en-US/defdadb71ee2476691d987689e3703a2.html
I assume you can get cloud user ID within your UI5 application and in case you access backend via Odata model you can use ODataModel.setHeaders function to provide your custom request headers which will be attached to every request sent to the backend. I would try to send cloud user id in some custom header value.
And on ABAP side you can use DP facade interface in service implementation to read custom headers:
lo_facade ?= /iwbep/if_mgw_conv_srv_runtime~get_dp_facade( ).
lt_client_headers = lo_facade->get_request_header( ).
I have written some reports that contain data I'd like to programmatically access via API from an external system. I can't find any documentation or sample code to do so via any one of the 3 APIs. Has anyone used one of Archer's APIs to pull data from a report externally?
Unfortunately, you cannot pull reports via the REST API (yet), you'll have to use the Web Services API via the SearchRecordsbyReport method.
My goal is to create a REST API Integration from Salesforce to SAP application.
SUCCESS Through Chrome APP
1. All I need to do is retrieve values from sap application through the REST API. When I tried to use the Chrome APP 'Advanced Rest Client' and have passed the appropriate URL and Content with POST method I was able to retrieve the values from local server database.
For EG : If I pass request 92126 then I was able to get response 'SAN DIEGO' which is correct.
Here is the link (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo?hl=en-US) for Advanced REST Client.
PROBLEM from Salesforce :
I had created a remotesite setting
When I created this REST class in SAlesforce and tried invoking the End Point then it's throwing this error.
System.HttpResponse[Status=Service Unavailable, StatusCode=503]
As the web api url which is provided to us is in local sql server i.e hosted in private, as we know in Salesforce for making callouts the URLs must be in public. But the URL is in private only for the security reasons not hosted in public. We should achieve it, any way is there to achieve it? What change should be done in Salesforce or server to communicate to each other, and allows to make the callout?
It is most likely that you endpoint does not allow access from outside some ip range which you indicated by saying it's not public. Salesforce is a SaaS application hosted outside the domain that your service is on. In order for Salesforce to access that endpoint resource you need to whitelist Salesforce IP ranges, which can be found here.
Whitelisting allows Salesforce to access the resource. The only caveat is that because Salesforce is multi-tenant it means that any instance of Salesforce on the range that you whitelist would have access to your endpoint. If this is not ok, you might want to add some sort of header or sign the request to the call to that identifies your Salesforce instance uniquely from any other instance to validate that the call originated from your Salesforce org.
(I am linking to the article instead of pasting the IP ranges here because these may change in the future).
I have 3 instances:
1.- app web (ubuntu instance)
2.- keyrock instance
3.- spagobi instance
My spagobi instance works validating users with keyrock as the same as App web. I create some reports in it. Now, i need to get these reports to insert into my app web.
Im trying to use http://docs.spagobi.apiary.io/, The preview subresource option. But all times i have a modal window asking my user/pass (as a apache security option).
im using http://spagobi-url/SpagoBI/restful-services/2.0/documents/printers_visited/preview (printers visited is the label of my document). And results:
If i wrote my user/pass in this panel, validation dont work and tries as a loop.
Anyone know how to solve this?
the REST services provided by SpagoBI require basic authentication, that's why you see the modal window asking for credentials.
In order to avoid this, you should implement a SSO between your application and SpagoBI and open a session in SpagoBI: when the session is opened, you should be able to invoke REST services.
Pay attention to the fact that preview subresource is just a static (optional file), it is not the executed report: if you want to execute the report, you should get the content subresource.
Just to let you know, we are currently developing possibility to invoke REST services providing the OAuth token. This should be available in next release.
Hope this helps