Cookbook

Guides and Recipes for Common Tasks

The following graphic 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.

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Domain Modeling: Find here an introduction to the basics of domain modeling with CDS, complemented with recommended best practices. See also the introduction in the About page.
Providing Services: Learn in this guide how to define services exposed through REST and OData APIs, including an overview of generic features to serve metadata as well as most CRUD requests out of the box, input validations and more.
Consuming Services: This guide is about consuming services in general, including Local Services, External Services, and Databases (currently specific to the Node.js runtime).
Using Databases: This guide is about defining, providing, implementing, deploying and publishing services — so about Service Providers in general.
Serving Fiori UIs: CAP provides out-of-the-box support for SAP Fiori elements frontends. This guide explains how to add one or more SAP Fiori elements apps to a CAP project, how to add SAP Fiori elements annotations to respective service definitions, etc. In the following sections, we are always referring to SAP Fiori Elements when mentioning Fiori.
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.
Temporal Data: Get support for date-effective entities with application-controlled validity time slices.