Calling XSJS file in SAPUI5 for writng data on HANA - service

Question

I'm trying to create a service to write data from a SAPUI5 frontend to HANA tables.
As far as I checked, I believe this is not possible via OData Services. So I've found another way, sing an XSJS file with a SQL INSERT statement.
Now, my problem is using this in UI5. As with OData, I would use something like oModel.create but now I think this doesn't work like that.
Those anyone has a clue?
Thanks!
Eva
UPDATE:
After using the first answer, I tried to create an entry in a HANA Table, but I'm getting a 500 error. Here's the code of the xsjs file:
var data = '', conn = $.db.getConnection(), pstmt;
if($.request.body){
data = $.request.parameters.get("firstName");
}
var conn = $.db.getConnection();
var pstmt = conn.prepareStatement( 'INSERT INTO "Z003HB1N"."T_TEST" (FIRSTNAME) VALUES(?)' );
pstmt.setString(1,data);
pstmt.execute();
pstmt.close();
conn.commit();
conn.close();
doResponse(200,'');
$.response.contentType = 'text/plain';
$.response.setBody('Upload ok');
$.response.status = 200;
Any clue what might be wrong?

Answer 1

You can simply use .ajax calls to call your new oData service on HANA and use parameters to hand over the desired values to your .xsjs service.
Example:
var query = "firstName=Sherlock&lastName=Holmes"
jQuery.ajax({
url : "url/to/your/Service.xsjs?" + query,
success : function(response) {
// will be called once the xsjs file sends a response
console.log(response);
},
error : function(e) {
// will be called in case of any errors:
console.log(e);
}
});
On HANA you can access the provided parameters in your service like this:
var firstName = $.request.parameters.get("firstName");
var lastName = $.request.parameters.get("lastName");