/* Optionally add projections to external entities, to capture what you actually want to use from there. */ using { API_BUSINESS_PARTNER as S4 } from './external/API_BUSINESS_PARTNER.csn'; extend service S4 with { entity Suppliers as projection on S4.A_BusinessPartner { // TODO: Aliases not supported in Java, yet? key BusinessPartner as ID, BusinessPartnerFullName as name, // REVISIT: following is not supported so far in cds compiler... // to_BusinessPartnerAddress as city { // CityCode as code, // CityName as name // } // REVISIT: following is not supported so far in cqn2odata... // to_BusinessPartnerAddress.CityCode as city, // to_BusinessPartnerAddress.CityName as city_name, } } /* You can mashup entities from external services, or projections thereof, with your project's own entities */ using { sap.capire.bookshop.Books, CatalogService } from '@capire/bookshop'; extend Books with { supplier : Association to S4.Suppliers; } /* You can also expose external entities through your own services For this to work, you need to delegate the respective calls addressed to your services into calls to the external service. */ extend service AdminService with { entity Suppliers as projection on S4.Suppliers; } /* Optionally add a local persistence to keep replicas of external entities to have data in fast access locally; much like a cache. */ annotate S4.Suppliers with @cds.persistence:{table,skip:false}; /** Having locally cached replicas also allows us to display supplier data in lists of books, which otherwise would generate unwanted traffic on S4 backends. */ extend projection CatalogService.ListOfBooks with { supplier }