ODATA INTERVIEW

QUESTIONS AND
ANSWER MADE EASY

By Pankaj Kumar
ABAP|OOPS ABAP|ABAP ON
HANA|ODATA|ALE IDOC Trainer
Email – [email protected]
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OData Interview Questions And Answer
Protocol -> set of rules

Web Services?
->One which provides the service on the web / to the web
What is web service? REQUEST
Browser/Client
How web services generated by protocol system
Cookies

RESPONSE

Web services

SOAP PROTOCOL REST PROTOCOL 1995

Xml( WSDL ) No WSDL( XML/JSON)/ EDMX

http/ftp/smtp http/https ENVELOPE- ADDRESS
ENVELOP POSTCARD
MORE SECURITY PAGE
PAGE
LESS SECURITY
SLOWER FASTER
HEAVY WEIGHT LIGHTWEIGHT
STATEFUL SESSION STATELESS SESSION
SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOL REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER
 What is Protocol?

Protocol is set of Rules

What is web services?

One which serves the web.

OR
A service made over the Web
 What is O Data?

ODATA stands for Open Data Protocol.

• It is open standard to send the data back and forth between two system via REST using HTTP

• It follows the REST standard

• ODATA Contains the Service document which is a collection of entity Sets.

• Each Entity set is used to perform the CRUD operation.

• An Entity set is used to create with the help of Entity Type

• Entity type is template( Blueprint ) of any entity set.

 Q. What is the SOAP ?

SOAP full form is Simple Object Access Protocol. It is a

state full protocol with below characteristics -
• Like Envelope
• Inbuilt high security feature
• Heavy
• No Good Performance
• HTTP/SMTP/FTP etc.
• XML(WSDL) Based protocol
• State full
An Illustration how SOAP works
An Wikipedia Example of SOAP
 What is REST?
• It is stateless protocol with below characteristics -
• Like Post Card
• No that much secured comparatively. Workaround is required
• Light weight
• Super Performance
• Only HTTP
• Architecture Based Protocol
• Usage cookies to give the better user experience

What is Stateless communication?

• The communication which doesn’t store the user
information in session permanently.

• When every time communication is established new

session is loaded irrespective of previous session
An Illustration of REST
 Soap VS REST

SOAP REST
• Like Envelope • Like Post Card
• No that much secured
• Inbuilt high security feature comparatively. Workaround is
• Heavy required
• Light weight
• No Good Performance • Super Performance
• HTTP/SMTP/FTP etc. • Only HTTP
• XML(WSDL) Based protocol • Architecture Based Protocol
• Stateless
• State full
Example 1 – SOAP vs ODATA
Example 2: SOAP Vs OData
Last 4 Slides:
Credit: Anubhav Sir – Videos
Link: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_xPlRumdbE&t=34s
2

9th Feb
Why SAP needed OData?

Ans. Smooth, Fast and Great user Experience

What is the T-code to create an OData project? VVI

Ans. SEGW
 What is Entity
Google Translation in Hindi

• One which has real existence is known as Entity.

• Let us say Ram is described by the Characteristics ( Id, Name, Age ).
• These set of sequential characteristics( i.e. Tuple) is nothing but Entity
because it is having real time existence.
 Entity

It is real time existing object

Employee – Entity Type

Id, Name, Age, Salary

Ram( 1, Ram, 20, 20000) - Entity 1

Mohan( 2, Mohan, 30, 30000) – Entity 2
Rohan( 3, Rohan, 40, 40000) – Entity 3
 Q. What is the difference between Entity, Entity type and Entity set in OData?

Entity Entity Type Entity Set

• It is something • It is collection of • It is a set of entities of
which has real entity having same entity type. so a set
common attribute.
existence. As in Student table of one or more entities
each row is an of Student Entity type is
• A tuple ( Name, entity and have an Entity Set.
Id, Age ) is having common attributes.
the real time So STUDENT is an
entity type which
existence. Hence contains entities
it is called Entity having attributes id,
name and Age
• Work Area • It is like “Types” • It is like “Internal Table”
Are you confused between Entity type and Entity set difference?

Let us make it very simple in layman term –

Entity Type: It is blue print / Structure for Entity set. Entity type must have key
defined.

Entity Set: It is similar to Internal table of type “ENTITY TYPE”

In ODATA protocol the resources are exposed in which format?

Ans.
What is the other name of O Data ?

O Data is also known as ODBC of the Web

ODBC -> Open Database connectivity

What are the Gateway Deployment in order to generate the OData we have?

1. Hub Deployment
And
2. Embedded Deployment
 UI5/FIORI

Hub / Central
SAP GATEWAY
Deployment

RFC

DM01
DM02(CRM) DM03(SRM)
If your system is on NW7.3 or Before what are the components need to be installed in order
to enable the SAP Gateway?

Ans. -> There are three components –

1. GW_CORE
2. IW_FND
3. IW_BEP

Q. If you are on NW7.4 onwards release which component need to be installed in order to
enable the GW

Ans. SAP_GWFND.
Q. How you will identify in your system if it is Hub Deployment or Embedded Deployment?

1. Go to SEGW.
2. Maintenance Service – if some artifact is there then that is Embedded
otherwise it is HUB.
 Session 3
10TH Feb
What is the t-Code to Register the Service? VVI

Ans./IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE

What is the T-Code to Test the service?

Ans. /IWFND/GW_CLIENT

What is the T-Code to Troubleshoot any error occurred?

Ans. /IWFND/ERROR_LOG
Q. What are the classes generated when we create and activate a project?

Ans.
DPC
DPC_EXT
MPC
MPC_EXT
 Q. What is the Architecture of SAP OData?

4 Major Parts of SAP Odata-

• OData Model
• Used to represent the
data form different
sources into single
format
• OData Service
• Odata Model is
exposed using Odata
Services using Odata
Protocol and Odata
Libraries
• OData Protocol
• Best on REST Principle
• OData Client Libraries
• Used by Browser of
Client application to
access the data using
O Data Protocol
Session 4
11-Feb
Q. What are the different way of generating O Data Service?

Ans.
1. ABAP Code based Implementation -> Write the Code in typically in DPC Extension Class
2. Mapping Editor -> In SEGW gateway builder, you can map an ABAP CDS Views as a data source to the entity
type properties. SADL Framework will generate the O data Service to retrieve the data from CDS.
3. Data References -> Using the Referenced Data Source - In SEGW gateway builder, you can reference an
ABAP CDS Views as a data source. Each entity type in OData service model corresponds to 1 ABAP CDS view.

4. Using Annotation
@Odata.publish: true
Q. What is SADL?

Ans.
SADL – Service Adaptation Description Language
• This is a framework which generates the O Data service from the
CDS

Below approaches uses SADL framework to generate service -

• @ODATA.PUBLISH: TRUE
• Mapping editor
• Data References
Q. What are the different methods for each entity set?

CURD
C-> CREATE
U-> UPDATE
R-> READ
D-> DELETE
CRUD

• Create – Includes the business logic to create data in the back-end system.
• Delete – to delete the data from the back-end system.
• GetEntity(Read) – to read the single record details from back-end system.
• GetEntitySet(Query) – to read the list of data from the back-end system
• Update- to update the data into back-end system.
Q. On top of which artifact you perform the CURD/CRUD operation?

1. Entity - NOT
2. Entity Type – Not
3. Entity Set - Yes
Q. What is Function Import? VVI

Ans.
• Function Imports are the actions like release of a sales order/purchase
order executed in the back-end system.

• Function Imports can be used when ever the given requirement does not fit
into the CRUD-Q operations.

• They are defined at service level and you can have N number of function
imports functions.

FI_PORELEASE
ET_eMPLOYEEseT
Q. In Odata, when you create and activate the project what are the classes generated?

There are 4 Classes generated –

1. MPC –
2. MPC_EXT -> Annotations
3. DPC
4. DPC_EXT -> Write the logic to fetch the data
Note: One Service and one Model also gets Created

Q. If you want to implement fetching logic for header and item which method need to be opted to VVI
write
Ans. Get_Expanded_EntitySet
VVI
Q. If you want to implement record creation logic for header and item, which method to be opted.
Ans. Create_Deep_EntitySet
 VVI
What are the HTTP methods

1. GET -> Read

2. POST -> Create New Record
3. PUT -> Update
4. PATCH -> Modify
5. DELETE -> Delete
6. MERGE -> Modify
7. HEAD ->

Patch -> This is the Actual HTTP Method. We are supposed to use the PATCH (SAP NetWeaver
Gateway 2.0 SP05)

Merge -> it is given by Microsoft. Hence it is not global Standard. So the preferred approach
should be PATCH.
 VVI

Q. What is the Difference between PUT( Complete Update) and ( PATCH/Merge =>
Partial Update)

EmpId(Key) EmpName Age

1 Pankaj 35
2 Ram 40 PUT=> Complete Replacement
3 Jitendra 35
4 Adi 28 Patch => partial Update
5 Jayant 30

There is difference in terms of how we use?

PUT -> From the front end we are supposed to pass all the fields content. In if some value is not supplied
then, it will take the initial value.

PATCH -> In patch from the frontend , all the fields are not required. We can send only specific field which
need to be updated.
Session 5

12th Feb
Q. What is the T-Code for Cache Clean Up?
Ans. /n/IWFND/CACHE_CLEANUP Q. In case of Embedded Scenario, What is
the T-Code to Clear the cache?
Q. What are the different way of cleaning the Cache?
Ans.
1. Globally for all the services in case we have central hub scenario– Ans. /n/IWBEP/CACHE_CLEANUP
/n/IWFND/CACHE_CLEANUP -> Gateway
/n/IWBEP/CACHE_CLEANUP-> BACKEND
or IN case of Embedded Scenario- Method Signature:
/n/IWBEP/CACHE_CLEANUP-> BACKEND
/iwfnd/cl_sutil_moni=
2. Specific to Service
/iwfnd/gw_client-> More-> Metadata-> Clean up >cleanup_metadata_c
3. Using Class method - ache(
/iwfnd/cl_sutil_moni=>cleanup_metadata_cache EXPORTING
iv_mode = 'A'
iv_multi_origin = abap_true
iv_namespace = '/SAP/'
iv_service_name = 'Your Service Name'
iv_service_version = '0001'
IMPORTING
ev_error_text = lv_error_text
).
In this method, we make use of the TCodes /n/iwfnd/maint_service and /n/iwfnd/gw_client to
clear our metadata cache. Follow the below steps:

To clear the metadata cache using the above process, for the Embedded implementation, it is enough to clear
only on the back end system, but in Hub implementation, it is mandatory to clear the cache on both systems
to properly clear the metadata cache.
 VVI

Q. When we have to clean the Cache?

Or
Q. When we need to clean up the Cache?

Ans.

Whenever we do any changes at service level and those changes are not reflecting then we are supposed
to do both type of Cache Cleanup.

When we add / delete / modify any property in the entity set or an annotation in the CDS or any BOPF
functionality such as Creatable, Updatable or Delectable, then we need to clear the metadata cache for
our changes to be visible in the Metadata.xml file of the OData service, which can then be consumed in
any UI5 application.
 Session 6

13-Feb-2020
Q. How to do file / Image handling in Odata? VVI

Ans. Using Stream Method.

VVI

What are the different stream methods to create/Update/Read the

image/file/pdf?
Ans.
• /IWBEP/IF_MGW_APPL_SRV_RUNTIME~CREATE_STREAM.

• /IWBEP/IF_MGW_APPL_SRV_RUNTIME~GET_STREAM.

• /IWBEP/IF_MGW_APPL_SRV_RUNTIME~UPDATE_STREAM
 VVI

What is Concurrency Control?

Ans. When at same time more than one people are going to perform some changes from UI
side then need to implement the concurrency control in order to have the consistent data and
not to have the data loss.

How to handle concurrency?

In Odata we generally use the concept of Optimistic Concurrency control.
Because O Data usage the HTTP method.
HTTP method generally use the Optimistic Concurrency control.

This is handled using the E-Tag=> Entity Tag

 Mad
PO QUANT MATERIA Ram PO QUANT MATERIAL
UI5 L UI5
1234 300 SWEET 1234 400 SWEET
SUGAR SUGAR

ABCD123 ABCD123SUGAR

E-TAG
SAP GATEWAY
Entity Tag

EKPO

1234 400 SWEET SUGAR ABCD123SUGAR

Session 7

14-Feb-2020
What is the function module to generate the Hash Value for Etag?

Ans. FM is - ‘CALCULATE_HASH_FOR_RAW’

Q. How to Troubleshoot if your break-point is not triggering which was already triggering
sometimes back?

This is the steps we followed and started working

1. Check if you have put the external break point
2. Clean up the cache using the t-Code /n/IWFND/CACHE_CLEANUP and
/n/IWBEP/CACHE_CLEANUP
3. Srdebugger – Use this transaction in order to activate the remote debugger
4. Log out the session
5. Put the break point
6. Run the gateway client and check
 Q. What is the T-Code to take the Trace in Odata?

Ans. /n/IWFND/TRACES

Q. Suppose you want to delete the Odata Service. Is it possible to delete directly.
Ans. No.

Q. What error it gives?

Ans. It will give the error – ICF Node will be deleted first
Note: when you will try to delete the ICF node it gives the error - “Object directory entry
cannot be deleted, the object is locked”.

Q. How to correct the “object is locked error”?

Ans. By deleting the System Alias
 Q. What are the steps need to be performed in order to delete
the service?
SAP1
1. Delete the Alias
2. Delete the ICF Node
3. Delete the Service

Gateway Server SAP2

Q. What is System Alias S1->SAP1
S2->SAP2
S3->SAP3

Jitendra -> Jitu SAP3

Session 8

15th Feb
 Navigation & Association

EKPO – ET_PO_ITEM
Po No. Item material
1 10 Laptop

EKKO – ET_PO_HEADER 1 20 Mouse

1..N
1 30 CPU
PO TOTAL PRICE ADDRESS
1 200
2 10 CHAIR
2 300
2 20 TABLE
3 400
2 30 ROUND TABLE

ET_PO_ITEM_DESC 3 10 PRINTER
Po No. Item Material Desc 3 20 INK
1 10 Big Laptop
1 20 Big Mouse, Black
1 30 CPU, i7 processor
 Q. What is Navigation?

Ans. In case one Entity set is associated with multiple entity set, then
in order to determine from which entity set, data need to be fetched
is determined by navigation properties.

Q. What is Association?

Ans. It is a relationship between two entity with cardinality.

Q. What is the difference between cardinality ‘M’ and ‘N’ of dependent entity in OData
Association?

Ans. M => 0..n

N => 1..n
Q. What is Association and Navigation in OData
What are different frequently used URI Notations?

This is to get all the data from PO_HEADER

/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet
Note: Name of the field should be used same as there in the properties

This is to get the specific header information

/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('4400000000')/

This is how to fetch a single field

/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('4400000000')/Statu?$format=json
Note: Name of the field should be used same as there in the properties

*****************************************************************
Get number of entries - /sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('4500000001')/$count
*****************************************************************
Extract only some fields of the Entity Type ($select=Field1,Field2,Field3)
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('4500000001')?$select=Ernam,Bukrs
*****************************************************************
 Session 9

16 Feb 2021
Get all the PO Items( ET_POITEMSET_GET_ENTITYSET method should be implemented)
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet
*******************************************************************
Get the specific PO ITEM( ET_POITEMSET_GET_ENTITY method should be implemented )
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet(Ebeln='4500000002',Ebelp='00010')
*******************************************************************
Get few fields:
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet?$select=Ebeln,Ebelp,Werks
*******************************************************************
in json format
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet?$select=Ebeln,Ebelp,Werks&$format=json
*******************************************************************
get the count
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet/$count
*******************************************************************
Access a specific field
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POItemSet(Ebeln='4500000000',Ebelp='00010')/Menge

*******************************************************************
Multiple Values
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('5815000026')/HeadToItemNav?$format=json
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('5815000026')/?$expand=HeadToItemNav&$format=json
Q: What is the difference between the below two URIs?
1. /sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('5815000026')/HeadToItemNav

2. /sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/Et_POHeaderSet('5815000026')/?$expand=HeadToItemNav
Session 10

17TH Feb
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/ => Resource Root
Et_POItemSet(Ebeln='4500000002',Ebelp='00010') => Resource
?

/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZABAPRITUAL_SRV/ => Resource Root

Et_POItemSet => Resource Name

? $select=Ebeln,Ebelp,Werks => Query String

What are the different Query Option?

DPC_EXT Method OData Query (URI) DPC_EXT Method Key Parameter(s)

Export:
_GET_ENTITYSET <ENTITYSET Path> = /sap/opu/odata/sap/<SERVICE NAME>/<ENTITYSET Name>
ET_ENTITYSET

_GET_ENTITYSET <ENTITYSET Path>?$format=json

<ENTITYSET Path>?$filter=<Entity Property1> eq <value> and <Entity Property2> Import:

eq <value> IT_FILTER_SELECT_OPTIONS and
_GET_ENTITYSET IV_FILTER_STRING
<ENTITYSET Path>?$filter= Ebeln eq ‘4000000’ and Bukrs = ‘IN50’ Export:
ET_ENTITYSET

<ENTITYSET Path>?$orderby=<Entity Property1>,<Entity Property2> Import:

/sap/opu/odata/sap/<SERVICE NAME>/<ENTITYSET Name>?$orderby= IT_ORDER
_GET_ENTITYSET
Ebeln,Bukrs OR Export:
<ENTITYSET Path>?$orderby=<Entity Property1> desc,<Entity Property2> desc ET_ENTITYSET
 Import:
IV_SEARCH_STRING
_GET_ENTITYSET <ENTITYSET Path>?$search=<value>
Export:
ET_ENTITYSET
Import:
<ENTITYSET Path>?$top=<value>
IS_PAGING-TOP
_GET_ENTITYSET Or
Export:
<ENTITYSET Path>?$top=1000&$skip=10
ET_ENTITYSET
Import:
<ENTITYSET Path>(<Entity Property>=’value’) IT_KEY_TAB
_GET_ENTITY
OR <ENTITYSET Path>(‘value‘) Export:
ER_ENTITY

Import:
IT_NAVIGATION_PATH
_GET_ENTITY In case if we had association and navigation between 2 entities
Export:
ER_ENTITY
Import:
IV_ENTITY_NAMEIV_ENTITY_S
ReosouceRoot/<ENTITYSET Name1>(<‘value’)/<ENTITYSET Name2>
ET_NAMEIT_NAVIGATION_PAT
_EXPANDED_ENTITY OR
HIT_KEY_TAB
ResourceRoot/<ENTITYSET Name1>(<‘value’) ?$expand=<ENTITYSET Name2>
Export:
ER_ENTITYSET
What are the different status codes and their Meaning?

Status Code Text Cause

200 OK The request is successfully executed by GET method
201 OK The request is successfully executed by POST method
203 OK The request is successfully executed by UPDATE method
204 OK The request is successfully executed by DELETE method
The request could not be parsed successfully because of a syntactically or
400 Bad Request
semantically incorrect URI.
401 Unauthorized Authentication is required and has not been provided.
403 Forbidden User does not have privileges to access the entity
404 Record Not Found The record does not exist for the given query.

405 Method Not Allowed A request cannot be used for this record.

406 Not Acceptable Self-explanatory

500 Internal Server Error Internal Error

501 Not Implemented Not Implemented

502 Bad Gateway Gateway issue

503 Service Unavailable Self-explanatory

 VVI

Entity Name, Entity Type and Entity Sets are case sensitive or not?

Ans. - Yes

What is the difference between Bad request and Bad Gateway?

Ans.
Bad Request(400) – Incorrect URI
Bad Gateway(502) – SAP NW Issue
Session 11
18t – Feb
Q. What is Batch Call Processing? VVI

If you want to perform the multiple operations on a single or multiple entity together
then we go for Batch Call Processing.

It helps to improve the performance and to maintain the data integrity and consistency
while processing. It gets processed normally in parallel
Q. What HTTP method need to be called in order to call the Batch Processing?

Ans. POST
Q. Where we can define the number of parallel queries for Batch Call processing?

Ans.
In case if you want to disable the activation of parallel batch request, how to do?
Source:
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/05/06/batch-request-in-sap-gateway/
Q. Can we use multiple one or more Update/delete/insert operation within a “Changeset”?

Yes

Q. Can we use “Commit work” statement within any one UPDATE/CREATE/DELETE entity method.

No

Q. What will happen if you use Commit work?

Go into dump
Q. What prefix need to be used in HTTP header in order to segregate the multiple batch request separately?

Ans. By defining the Boundry Value for Batch requrest

Q. How to segregate the multiple action within a change set?

Ans. By defining the boundary value for Change set

Session 12

19TH Feb
What is the correct Full form of CSRF ?

1. Cross site reference Forgery

2. Cross site Request Forgery

3. Cross significance random Forgery

4. Cross site rare Forgery

 Explain XCSRF Token with example ?

or example, a typical GET request for a $100 bank transfer might look like:

GET http://netbank.com/transfer.do?acct=PersonB&amount=$100 HTTP/1.1

A hacker can modify this script so it results in a $100 transfer to their own account. Now the malicious
request might look like:

GET http://netbank.com/transfer.do?acct=AttackerA&amount=$100 HTTP/1.1

What is CSRF Definition ?

Some Good Reference:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EHlfTgGUU => Animation 3 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8-duChsYqI =>20 Minutes, Anubhav Sir Video

 OData and CSRF Token

• CSRF token is applicable on HTTP protocol only

• REST, SOAP supports the HTTP protocol so CSRF token can be used for REST and
SOAP to validate the session for a specific user

Gateway( GET ) Response

Q. Do we have to take care while performing the post call from Gateway/Fiori/UI5 Application?

No. It will be taken care by the ui5 Framework/Odata Gateway

When CSRF Token is required?

1. It is required when you are going to call the Odata Service from third Party Application – PostMan,
Java Application, Any .Net Application

2. From UI5/Fiori also it can be required if you are not going to make the Odata Call. Rather you are
making a REST based call using AJAX.

How to achieve this one?

Ans. First make the Get call and the get the token.
Once you get the token, pass this token during post call and then only you will be able to
perform
What is the T-Code to set the parameter to enable or disable the CSRF Token Request?

Ans. T-Code is SICF Parameter Name: ~CHECK_CSRF_TOKEN . Here value =1 => Enable
and 0 => Disable

Q. If you are going to make that parameter(~CHECK_CSRF_TOKEN ) disable then do you not have to
do anything while posting from the third party application or using the AJAX Call?

Ans. No We have to pass the below parameter. We have to do something.

X-SCRF-TOKEN = ‘X’.
Session 13
20th Feb ‘21
Q. What is the performance improvement techniques in Odata?

SAP USER –
FIORI/UI5

SAP NW GATEWAY( Central Hub Scenario ) AS

RFC

S4HANA/ BUSINESS SUITE / ECC / ( AS )

How to do -

1. Use the $expand in query string – It will reduce the roundtrip time

2. Use the Data provider expand Method in stead of default implementation -

GET_EXPANDED_ENTITY
GET_EXPANDED_ENTITYSET

3. $Batch Call – grouping the multiple operation together in one Odata call

4. Deep Insert

5. Delta Query – Instead of getting all get the difference

6. $select

7. $filter

8. $top and $skip

9. Avoid the coding at NW Gateway Layer. Do Maximum coding at Application Server

10. Whenever possible prefer for the Embedded scenario.

In the embedded also prefer to Co-Deployment option.

Note:- There are two option to select in embedded scenario –

1. Routing Based
2. Co- Deployment

Sap suggests to use Co-Deployment whenever possible because 2nd option ( Co-deployment ) is 15%
is faster than 1st one( Routing Based)
 Total = 100ms, GWHUB = 50ms , GWRFCOH = 10ms, Gwbe = 20m
Gwapp = 5ms,

Gwnongw = format conversion =

In case of json and xml = 0,
sap-statistics=true But in case of XLSX format = 30ms

Gwappssum = The complete time taken by the application in case

NW Gateway(2ms) Batch parallelization.

Gwbewait = The time for which GWBE has to wait to become free
RFC( the work process
5)
dispatcher Fw = nw gateway time + rfc + as = 2 + 5 + 10 = 17ms

Gwtotal = fw + Service Implementation( Logic Execution )

AS(10)
wp1 wp2
Gwapplogic => 70ms
 Different Parameters and their meaning

Detail Carlos Roggan Blog Reference: Click Here

Anubhav Video : https://youtu.be/vYbd0IUd9Go
Thanks to Carlos Roggan(great blog) and Anubhav(for video)
Blog full link:- https://blogs.sap.com/2016/01/28/understanding-sap-performance-statistics-for-sap-netweaver-gateway-ser
What is the t-Code to have the performance Trace in GW?

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