Cookbook

Guides and recipes for frequent tasks

The topic map below illustrates a walkthrough of the most prominent tasks within CAP’s universe of discourse (aka scope). The guides listed below provide details and instructions about each.

cookbook

Domain Modelling: Find here an introduction to the basics of domain modelling with CDS, complemented with recommended best practicses. See also the introduction in the About page.
Defining Services: A guide how to define, implement, deploy and publish services to be consumed from other applications, services and UIs.
Using Generic Providers: Define, implement, deploy, and publish services to be consumed from other applications, services and UIs.
Adding Custom Logic: Define, implement, deploy, and publish services to be consumed from applications, services and UIs.
Consuming Services: This guide is about consuming services in general, including Local Services, External Services and Databases.
Authorization and Access Control: About restricting access to data by adding respective declarations to CDS models, which are then enforced in service implementations.
Localization (i18n): Guides you through the steps to internationalize your application to provide localized versions with respect to both Localized Models as well as Localized Data.
Localized Data: Guides you through the steps to internationalize your application to provide localized versions.
Deploy to Cloud: How to deploy your services to the cloud, e.g. using MTA.
Extending SaaS Applications: How SaaS subscribers can extend SaaS applications on a tenant level.