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@cap-rp/notifications@cap-rp/notificationsA derived copy of the official notifications plugin under a different scope; its readme is @cap-js/notifications' with the name swapped.independent, cap
Renamed copy of @cap-js/notifications under another scope
Release and repository quiet for 24 months.
@cap-utils/barrier@cap-utils/barrierA placeholder published under a CAP annotations name that ships no annotations: one exported barrier() that throws "not yet implemented", no .cds file and no repository.independent, cap
Placeholder package under a CAP annotations name, no annotations
The manifest calls it a dummy library exposing custom CDS annotations, but the published contents are a one-line README, a single exported barrier() whose body is throw Error("not yet implemented"), and no .cds file at all — there is nothing to import and nothing to annotate with. No repository, one release, May 2025.
@mpah/enum-value-help@mpah/enum-value-helpA CAP plugin that generates value help for enum fields from an @enumValueHelp annotation, serving the enum's values from one generated entity instead of hand-written OData annotations.independent, cap
CAP plugin generating value help for enum fields from an annotation
@neoimpulse/cap-js-xml-protocol@neoimpulse/cap-js-xml-protocolA CAP plugin that lets the REST adapter take XML, parsing the payload to JSON and rewriting the content type before CAP sees the request.independent, cap
CAP plugin letting the REST adapter accept XML payloads
@quadrio/cds-db2@quadrio/cds-db2A DB2 adapter for CDS, so a CAP model can be deployed to and served from DB2, last released July 2023 and still on npm while the repository it was published from has been deleted.independent, cap
DB2 adapter for CDS
The README is one line and the package carries no licence field. Last released July 2023. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
@quadrio/cds-dbm@quadrio/cds-dbmA published fork of cds-dbm — deploy, load, diff and drop as CDS command-line tasks for relational databases the core does not natively support.independent, cap
Fork of cds-dbm with deploy, load, diff and drop tasks
Release and repository quiet for 39 months.
@rizing/cds-customer-stepbystep-tool@rizing/cds-customer-stepbystep-toolA tool that checks and completes the deployment configuration of a CAP project, written for Rizing's step-by-step CAP training, last released August 2023 from a repository since deleted.independent, cap
Tool completing a CAP project's deployment configuration
Tied to a specific training repository and last released August 2023. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
@rizing/cds-extension@rizing/cds-extensionA CAP extension, CDSX, that puts a draft-capable facade in front of an OData service imported into CAP, so Fiori elements can edit records that live in another system as drafts.partner, cap
CAP plugin putting a draft-capable facade in front of imported OData
@sap/cds-hana@sap/cds-hanaThe SAP Cloud Application Programming Model's database adapter for SAP HANA, the package a CAP project adds to run its model on a SAP HANA database.sap official, cap
Database adapter for SAP HANA in CAP
@sapmentors/cds-scp-api@sapmentors/cds-scp-apiA Node module for CAP that calls an external API through a destination instead of a hardcoded endpoint, taking its address, credentials and on-premise tunnel from the SAP Destination and Connectivity services.community org, cap
Node module for CAP calling external APIs through a destination
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 57 months.
Functional boundary The package declares `@sap/cds` ^4.5.2 among its dependencies and pins `@sap-cloud-sdk/core` at 1.37.1, so a project on CAP 5 or later is outside the range it states.
@tklein1801/cap-js-attachments@tklein1801/cap-js-attachmentsA CAP Node.js attachments plugin with a draft-based upload table, Object Store integration and configurable malware scanning for the files that are uploaded.independent, cap
CAP Node.js attachments plugin with Object Store and malware scanning
cap-js-mockdatacap-js-mockdataA cds add command that generates CSV seed files into db/data from @Mockdata annotations on your entities, filling each column with values from the Faker module the annotation names.independent, cap
CSV seed data generated from @Mockdata annotations with Faker
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 27 months.
Functional boundary Not a test-data factory. It writes files at build time to seed a database, so it does not build fixtures inside a unit test. The declared peer range stops at cds 7 — nothing says it fails on 9, but nothing says it was tried either.
cap-llm-plugincap-llm-pluginGenerative AI in a CAP application with the sensitive fields anonymised through SAP HANA before the prompt leaves, so the model never sees the confidential half.independent, cap
Generative AI in CAP with fields anonymised through SAP HANA
Not where the records sit anywhere but [SAP HANA Cloud](artifact:btp-hana-cloud): the similarity search and the single retrieval method are both written against its vector engine, and the embeddings and the chat call go through [SAP AI Core](artifact:btp-ai-core), so a project without both has nothing here to call. Not where the dependency has to be an SAP-supported one either: the README states that the plugin is not an official SAP product and is published as a community contribution.
cap-utilscap-utilsAn npx tool that drops worked example files into an existing CAP project, including a test.http to fire requests at what it added, for exploring CAP features you then extend yourself.independent, cap
npx tool adding worked example files to a CAP project
Last released April 2024.
cds-common-jwt-supportcds-common-jwt-supportJWT authentication for CAP without xsuaa or xssec, validating tokens with jose instead, for a service that authenticates against an identity provider other than XSUAA; last released in April 2022.independent, cap
JWT authentication for CAP without xsuaa or xssec
Last released April 2022 at 0.0.2, and no repository is declared on the package.
cds-dbmcds-dbmA delta deployment and migration tool for CAP on PostgreSQL that diffs the live schema against a reference schema with Liquibase and applies the change, never dropping tables by default.independent, cap
Delta deployment and migrations for CAP database adapters
Archived The declared repository is archived.
Functional boundary The repository is archived, so nothing here will move again. Fine to keep where it already runs; anything new should start from what the current cds deploy leaves open rather than from this.
cds-entra-idcds-entra-idA CAP plugin that maps Microsoft Entra ID groups and app roles onto cds.User roles, so @requires and @restrict keep working for a CAP app hosted on Azure App Services.independent, cap
Maps Microsoft Entra ID groups and app roles onto cds.User roles
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 25 months.
Functional boundary It performs no authentication flow of its own. The app must already be protected by Entra ID OAuth 2.0 at the App Service level; this only maps the resulting claims. It is explicitly not intended to run locally.
cds-event-monitoringcds-event-monitoringA CAP plugin that stores every event received on its configured messaging topics in a table, with a Fiori-annotated service to browse them, resend events and drain a dead-message queue.independent, cap
Stores, browses and resends messages a CAP service receives
cds-feature-togglecds-feature-toggleA feature-toggle pattern for CAP CDS from before the core had one, sitting at the CDS layer rather than the tenant-extensibility layer of @sap/cds-mtxs feature toggles.independent, cap
Feature-toggle pattern for CAP CDS
Last released June 2022 at 0.0.6, and no repository is declared on the package.
cds-hyper-app-servicecds-hyper-app-serviceA typed service implementation layer over CAP ApplicationService, for writing handlers as class members rather than registrations; last released July 2022, with no repository declared.independent, cap
Typed class-based service layer over CAP ApplicationService
Last released July 2022, and no repository is declared on the package.
cds-incidents-samplecds-incidents-sampleA cds add plugin that drops the incidents-app model into a project, so the reference model arrives by a command rather than by copying a repository.independent, cap
cds add plugin adding the incidents-app model to a project
cds-internal-toolcds-internal-toolReusable internals for people writing CAP extensions — annotation helpers, current cds runtime types, module resolution, reflection utilities and type assertions.independent, cap
Reusable internals for authors of CAP extensions
Explicitly internal utilities, so the surface is not a stable public API and last moved in March 2024. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
cds-kafkacds-kafkaA Kafka adapter for CAP that registers Kafka topics as a CDS messaging service over KafkaJS, so emit and on work unchanged, with per-message keys, partitions and topics set through headers.independent, cap
Kafka adapter exposing topics as a CDS messaging service
cds-mysqlcds-mysqlA MySQL and MariaDB database adapter for CAP that connects to a database instance and translates incoming CQL/CQN requests to it; the repository the package declares has been deleted.independent, cap
MySQL and MariaDB database adapter for CAP
The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
cds-natscds-natsNATS as a messaging service for the CAP Node.js runtime, the broker behind cds.connect for emit and subscribe, for teams already running NATS rather than Event Mesh or Redis.independent, cap
NATS messaging service for the CAP Node.js runtime
Last released December 2022. Nothing says it fails on current cds, but nothing says it was tried either. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
cds-pgcds-pgA PostgreSQL adapter for SAP CDS, built by the SAP Mentors community, which gave CAP a Postgres persistence option years before @cap-js/postgres shipped.independent, cap
PostgreSQL adapter for SAP CDS from the SAP Mentors community
The declared repository is archived.
cds-plugin-handlerscds-plugin-handlersA CAP plugin that structures handlers as one file per entity, in a folder per service, instead of one service implementation that keeps growing.independent, cap
One handler file per entity in CAP services
cds-rate-limitcds-rate-limitA CAP plugin that applies a rate-limit pattern inside the CAP Node.js runtime, capping how many requests a caller gets where tenant and user are already resolved rather than at an approuter or gateway.independent, cap
Rate-limit pattern for CAP Node.js applications
Last released January 2024 at 0.0.6. The repository the package declares has been deleted — verified against the GitHub API, not just a failed fetch. The package is still on npm, so it installs; the source it was published from is no longer readable, which is a harder thing to discover than a stale version number.
cds-routing-handlerscds-routing-handlersDecorator-based routing of CAP service handlers in TypeScript, from before the core had an opinion — the framework the CDS-TS-Dispatcher post names as its unmaintained predecessor.independent, cap
Decorator-based routing of CAP service handlers in TypeScript
Release and repository quiet for 46 months.
cdsecdseResolves a destination from a CAP project's own configuration, then makes the outbound call with axios: the url, the method and the body are written at the call site.independent, cap
Destination resolution and axios calls from CAP configuration
Release and repository quiet for 46 months.
cdsmbt01cdsmbt01This is CDS plugin that enable OData change tracking for CAP applicationsindependent, cap
CDS plugin for OData change tracking in CAP applications
auth-samplesauth-samplesTwo CAP services and a UI over them, set up so role and instance restrictions can be tried out against three mock users instead of a real identity provider.independent, cap
CAP services and a UI for trying role restrictions with mock users
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
az-private-linky-capaz-private-linky-capA CAP project reaching an S/4 backend through SAP BTP Private Link Service for Azure, with the private hostname and the credentials held in a destination.independent, cap
CAP project reaching S/4 via SAP BTP Private Link Service for Azure
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
blog-bookshopblog-bookshopA CAP service with a Fiori elements UI deployed whole to Cloud Foundry: an approuter, an HTML5 deployer, a launchpad content deployer and xs-security.json beside the db and srv modules in one mta.yaml.independent, cap
CAP bookshop with Fiori elements UI deployed whole to Cloud Foundry
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
blog-cap-chartblog-cap-chartA Fiori elements overview page over a CAP service whose two donut-chart cards read the same measure from an aggregating view and from the plain entity, so what the aggregation annotations change is visible side by side.independent, cap
Fiori overview page comparing aggregated and plain donut-chart cards
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-alpcap-alpAn Analytical List Page over a CAP OData V4 service, showing the aggregation annotations a CDS model needs before an analytical floorplan will render, kept in their own file beside the service.independent, cap
Analytical List Page over a CAP OData V4 service
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-cds-typercap-cds-typerA CAP service in TypeScript whose handlers import Books and Order from #cds-models/CatalogService, the types @cap-js/cds-typer generates from the model.independent, cap
CAP service in TypeScript using types from @cap-js/cds-typer
cap-defaultvalue-functioncap-defaultvalue-functionCommon.DefaultValuesFunction pointed at a service function: getDefaultValues() selects the highest existing ID and returns that plus one, leaving the second key element to the user.independent, cap
Common.DefaultValuesFunction pointed at a CAP service function
cap-embedding-functioncap-embedding-functionA CAP service that computes a note's Vector(768) embedding in its own handlers, selecting SAP HANA Cloud's vector_embedding as a column from a Dummy entity.independent, cap
CAP service computing embeddings with HANA Cloud vector_embedding
cap-external-northwindcap-external-northwindA CAP service that serves an external OData service as its own: Northwind's Products imported as a CSN model, projected read-only, with the incoming query run against the remote service.independent, cap
CAP service serving Northwind's external OData Products as its own
cap-fe-masseditcap-fe-masseditA sample that switches on mass edit in a Fiori elements list report over CAP with enableMassEdit in manifest.json, against a draft-enabled Books entity with a status code list.independent, cap
Mass edit enabled in a Fiori elements list report over CAP
cap-github-actioncap-github-actionA CAP project whose MTA build and Cloud Foundry deploy run as two jobs of one GitHub Actions workflow, with the Cloud Foundry credentials read from repository secrets.independent, cap
CAP project built and deployed to Cloud Foundry by GitHub Actions
cap-java-resiliencecap-java-resilienceA CAP Java service consuming a Business Partner API that a CAP Node.js project in the same repository mocks, with the SAP Cloud SDK caching and resilience it is named for recorded as planned.independent, cap
CAP Java service consuming a Business Partner API mocked in Node.js
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-js-notificationscap-js-notificationsA CAP Node.js order service that sends a notification after every create, published as a sample implementation of @cap-js/notifications.independent, cap
Order service sending notifications via @cap-js/notifications
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-materialbom-graphcap-materialbom-graphA CAP sample that walks a material bill of materials on the server and draws it as a UI5 network graph in a custom section of a Fiori elements object page, on SQLite with no deployment.independent, cap
CAP sample drawing a material BOM as a UI5 network graph
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-mediacap-mediaMedia handling with nothing but core CDS: a LargeBinary element annotated with @Core.MediaType, @Core.IsMediaType and @Core.ContentDisposition, uploaded from a UI5 UploadSet.independent, cap
Media handling in core CDS with a UI5 UploadSet
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-oauth-destinationcap-oauth-destinationA sample that declares a destination for OAuth2UserTokenExchange in mta.yaml, so it is deployed with the application rather than created by hand in the cockpit.independent, cap
OAuth2UserTokenExchange destination declared in mta.yaml
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-openapicap-openapiA CAP Java service whose two handlers call role collection endpoints through a client the Cloud SDK's OpenAPI generator builds at build time from a specification kept in the project.independent, cap
CAP Java service calling role collection APIs via a generated client
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-principal-propagationcap-principal-propagationAn on-premise ABAP OData V2 service read through a named destination and the SAP Connectivity service, with a Fiori elements list report and an approuter in front of the CAP service.independent, cap
On-premise ABAP OData V2 service read from CAP over Connectivity
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-rediscap-redisA sample that holds the approuter's session, CSRF token included, in a bound instance of Redis on SAP BTP, hyperscaler option instead of the approuter's own memory, around a CAP and Fiori elements app.independent, cap
Approuter session held in a bound Redis cache instance
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary Not a descriptor to deploy as it stands: the approuter's `sessionSecret` is written out in `mta.yaml`.
cap-reuse-html5cap-reuse-html5A Fiori elements app uploaded to the HTML5 Application Repository together with a cdm.json, and a second repository instance on the app-runtime plan behind a subaccount destination pointing at /applications/cdm/cap-reuse-html5.independent, cap
Fiori elements app in the HTML5 Application Repository with cdm.json
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary The subaccount destination's url names the us10 trial's repository runtime, so another region or subaccount needs it rewritten before the descriptor deploys.
cap-rfccap-rfcA CAP Node.js action that calls BAPI_EPM_BP_CREATE over RFC, with the function module's own signature imported as CDS and a destination standing in for the system once deployed.independent, cap
CAP Node.js action calling BAPI_EPM_BP_CREATE over RFC
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-uicap-uiAn MTA that deploys a CAP service, a HANA HDI container and a Fiori elements app into the HTML5 Application Repository, with two destinations to the same CAP service configured side by side.independent, cap
MTA deploying CAP, HDI container and a Fiori elements app
cap-ui5-gpt-chatcap-ui5-gpt-chatA working chat application on CAP and SAPUI5 against the OpenAI API — selectable models, per-user chat history in the database, maintainable chatbot personalities, and streaming responses as an option per chat.independent, cap
Chat app on CAP and SAPUI5 against the OpenAI API
It calls the OpenAI API directly with a key in the environment. It was written in early 2023 and last touched in May 2023, which is before SAP AI Core and the CAP LLM plugins existed — so read it for the shape of the application, not for how a CAP service should reach a model today.
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration Suite[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration SuiteOne S/4HANA event, two consumers at once: a CAP Java application and SAP Integration Suite. Late in a long Deep Dive series and written as such — the queues, the S/4HANA connection and the Integration Suite side were all established in earlier posts, so this is the part where they meet.AyushKumar and vipul.khullar, published 2023-03-24
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration Suite
Event Mesh changed in @sap/cds 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects Runnable code.
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh – CAP based implementation of SAP Event Mesh in a Single-Tenant Scenario[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh – CAP based implementation of SAP Event Mesh in a Single-Tenant ScenarioThe instalment of the Deep Dive series where the framework arrives. The earlier posts consumed Event Mesh over its REST API, so this one is explicitly a comparison: the same thing through CAP's messaging abstraction, with the three flavours — local, file-based and a real broker — named before the broker one is built.AyushKumar and vipul.khullar, published 2022-06-06
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh – CAP based implementation of SAP Event Mesh in a Single-Tenant Scenario
Event Mesh changed in @sap/cds 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
[Part - 1] Enrich CAP based Services with Behaviors using Annotations[Part - 1] Enrich CAP based Services with Behaviors using AnnotationsWalks through CDS annotations that add behaviour beyond CRUD: @readonly and @insertonly take away write, update or delete on an entity or element, each shown with the OData metadata it generates. @mandatory, @assert.unique, @assert.integrity, @assert.format and @assert.range then enforce input checks that @sap/cds runs on write, with the SQL or HANA constraint @assert.unique compiles to and the error code each rejection returns. It names @restrict and @requires but defers them, calling authorization too large a topic for this post.published 2023-01-28
[Part – 2] Enrich CAP based Services with Behaviors using Annotations[Part – 2] Enrich CAP based Services with Behaviors using AnnotationsThe second half of a two-part walkthrough of CAP's behavioral annotations, following on from access control and input validation in the first part. This post works through @cds.autoexpose, @cds.api.ignore, @cds.persistence.exists/skip, @cds.on.insert/@cds.on.update and the @odata.Type/@odata.singleton mapping overrides, all shaping how a CDS model is projected into a service, which is data modelling. Alongside these it covers @cds.query.limit for default and maximum page sizes (pagination and streaming), @odata.etag with exclusive and shared locks for optimistic concurrency (concurrency control), and @cds.search for scoping $search to chosen elements (search), each with a CDS code example.published 2023-01-29
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)Two unrelated findings in one post, which is the format of the series: the OData operators tried against a CAP service — with a schema of deliberately awkward types to try them on — and undeploying database artifacts, which is the half people hit in anger. Numbered N03 and N04 of a run that continues either side.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-06-05
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N03-N04)
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N05-N06)#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N05-N06)On SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime, a one-shot PostgreSQL db-deployer app can be restarted by the platform's default port-type health check inside its 60-second timeout, re-running the deploy and duplicating data in the PostgreSQL database; setting health-check-type to process or http, via cf commands or the app's mta.yaml parameters, avoids it. In CAP, a remote service's entities are imported and consumed through cds.connect.to and queried via a projection, but its functions and actions cannot be projected: they must be redefined in the consuming service's own interface, with the handler forwarding the call to the remote proxy.published 2023-07-27
#CAP-TechBytes Input Validation#CAP-TechBytes Input ValidationThe annotations one at a time — @mandatory, @assert.unique, @assert.range including the enum form, @assert.format — each with what it produces. Ends on error handling, which is the part that decides whether any of it is usable from a UI.Thajunniza, published 2023-07-07
#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 1#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 1First of a three-part series on designing a CAP application on BTP that uses the platform's data privacy services, and this part is the vocabulary before any of it: personal data, the rights a data subject has under GDPR, and the data controller and processor distinction, worked through an order-confirmation SMS example. It names four BTP services: SAP Personal Data Manager, SAP Data Retention Manager, SAP Data Privacy Integration and SAP Audit Log service. Only the first is described, as a service running in the Cloud Foundry environment that finds data subjects across one or more applications and services, makes requests on an individual's behalf about their personal information and forwards them for handling, and notifies individuals which of their personal information is being used or sends them a copy of their record by email; the CAP-side annotations and PDM's own application features follow in Part 2 and Part 3.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-03-18
#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 2#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 2Walks through wiring a CAP service to SAP's Personal Data Manager (PDM) on BTP: entity, key and field-level @PersonalData annotations that mark data subjects and personal fields, the @PersonalData.IsPotentiallyPersonal / IsPotentiallySensitive distinction that drives audit logging, and the @Communication.Contact annotation PDM needs to search for a data subject. Covers the xsuaa trust arrangement and service binding that let the standalone PDM application call back into the CAP service to read and manage that data. Second of a three-part series; the annotation model it demonstrates is CAP's own mechanism for data privacy compliance, exercised against a sample 'Game Shop' application.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-03-18
#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 3#SAPCAP: Win Customer Trust using Data Privacy and Protection Services on BTP - Part 3Third of a three-part series, this covers the UI side of SAP's Personal Data Manager (PDM) once it is subscribed and wired to a CAP application: a Customer Service Representative searches for a data subject, views the personal data the application's annotations expose, and requests correction, deletion or export on their behalf, while an Operators Clerk processes those requests through to completion. PDM stores none of the personal data itself, only the requests and access logs, which an administrator downloads through the separate Data Transport app. It builds on the annotation model the first two parts introduce, so what it demonstrates is PDM's own delivered UI rather than anything a CAP application must build itself.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-03-18
⚡Unlocking the Power of LLMs in CAP: Understanding llms.txt and llms-full.txt⚡Unlocking the Power of LLMs in CAP: Understanding llms.txt and llms-full.txtllms.txt and llms-full.txt for CAP — a plain-text map of the documentation, written for an agent that arrived by fetching a URL rather than one somebody configured. The convention the atlas uses for itself, applied to capire.Yogananda, published 2025-05-18
🚀 秒速で学ぶ SAP AI Core Agent 開発 🚀 - Part 8 CloudFoundry にデプロイ🚀 秒速で学ぶ SAP AI Core Agent 開発 🚀 - Part 8 CloudFoundry にデプロイPart 8 of a Japanese-language series deploys the Python backend and SAPUI5 chat UI built in earlier parts to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime: the backend's manifest.yaml declares its buildpack, memory and start command for cf push, while the UI's MTA project is built with mbt build and uploaded with cf deploy, then has its ENDPOINT constant repointed at the live API's route. It closes with adding the deployed HTML5 app to SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition through Channel Manager's content sync, Content Explorer and a new Site Directory site.Ryota_Ito, published 2025-06-16
2024/01最新版！Productivity Toolsを使ったCAPバックエンド開発②~HANA Cloud編~2024/01最新版！Productivity Toolsを使ったCAPバックエンド開発②~HANA Cloud編~In Japanese, and the second of a pair — database connection through to calling the API from outside, with authorisation in between. The author dates the screenshots explicitly and warns that the UI may have moved since, which is the right disclaimer for a click-through guide.takayuki_tanaka, published 2024-01-09
2024/01最新版！Productivity Toolsを使ったCAPバックエンド開発②~HANA Cloud編~
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
A 25x faster mta.yaml build for SAP CAP Node.js projectsA 25x faster mta.yaml build for SAP CAP Node.js projectsOne change to the build descriptor, arrived at after discarding the obvious alternatives — the author reports trying shell scripts, npm caching and offline installs, swapping npm for pnpm, and cds build --no-clean, all of which helped and none of which was this. The value is as much in the record of what was ruled out as in the trick itself.published 2025-03-17
A CAP Plugin for Flexible Number Range Management: cds-numberrange-pluginA CAP Plugin for Flexible Number Range Management: cds-numberrange-pluginThe author's own plugin, and the reason given for writing it is about plugins rather than about number ranges: a year of using them convinced them that this was the way to extend CAP without leaving marks on the application. Sequential document numbers are the thing it does; keeping the host project clean is the thing it argues for.abdulbasit, published 2025-06-17
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3The concepts before the code: what the GPT model and its API actually offer, and what the finished chat application looks like — personalities included. Written in the weeks when the ground was moving under it, and the post carries its own change log to prove it: GPT-3.5 added on 1 March, GPT-4 on 15 March, and an admission that a series planned as two posts became three.published 2023-02-22
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3
cap-ui5-gpt-chat: no published releases, repository quiet for 41 months. Affects Runnable code.
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3The backend: CAP with TypeScript, the entities holding chats and personalities, and the service that talks to the API. This is where the streamed completion and the repositories behind the handler come from, which is the part of the sample still worth lifting even though the model access has since been superseded by AI Core.published 2023-02-24
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3
cap-ui5-gpt-chat: no published releases, repository quiet for 41 months. Affects Runnable code.
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3The SAPUI5 frontend of the sample, and mostly an argument for writing UI5 in TypeScript: ES imports in place of sap.ui.define, a class with real private members in place of the underscore convention, and the service types generated from the CDS model copied into the UI package, so one IChats interface types the OData object the controller reads. The second half is structure — a formatter class and a singleton LayoutManager called from the XML view through core:require, a confirmation helper taking a callback, a dialog class resolving a promise, a generic createEntity<T> on a service class — all of it to keep every controller under 100 lines. What it says about arranging a UI5 app holds whatever model sits behind the chat; the tooling around it is of its date, and the post calls UI5's TypeScript support experimental.published 2023-02-27
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3
cds2types. Affects Runnable code.
A Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects - OverviewA Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects - OverviewWhere cds-launchpad-plugin came from, told as a learning exercise: the author wanted a real problem to teach himself TypeScript on, and picked the thing he kept redoing in every CAP project — a launchpad to see all the UI applications in one place. The origin post for an entry whose 2023 update is also indexed here.published 2022-03-14
A Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects – Sample project setupA Fiori Launchpad Sandbox for all your CAP-based projects – Sample project setupThe hands-on half published the same day as the overview: the launchpad module wired into the CAP sample repository, step by step from a global cds-dk install. Same-day pairs like this are worth keeping together — the overview argues, this one is the thing you follow.published 2022-03-14
A modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsA modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsCAP used to build tooling rather than an application: the development workflow for Cloud Integration is limited to what the Integration Suite offers, so the author puts a CAP service and Azure DevOps around it. An unusual use of the framework, and the reason to read it.marcel_schork62, published 2023-06-27
A simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysA simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysWalks through building a managed RAP business object over the Flight Reference Scenario's Travel and Booking entities with unmanaged save and late numbering, so CRUD operations route through the legacy /DMO/FLIGHT_TRAVEL_CREATE, _UPDATE and _DELETE function modules instead of generated persistence, a worked case of ABAP's transactional model. Covers the ADJUST_NUMBERS and SAVE_MODIFIED saver methods that map preliminary draft keys to the legacy-assigned travel and booking IDs, and a GetDefaultsForBookings action that proposes the next booking ID during draft handling.cseijas, published 2025-09-01
Add useful Extensions to Dev spaces in SAP Business Application StudioAdd useful Extensions to Dev spaces in SAP Business Application StudioStarts from the point capire makes — that CAP is editor-agnostic and BAS is the preconfigured option — and then does the thing that undoes preconfiguration: adds two extensions to a dev space for initialising data in a CAP application, with the uninstall procedure as well as the install. The uninstall half is what makes it worth keeping.showkath_naseem, published 2022-11-13
Adding a Swagger UI to Your SAP Cloud Application Programming Model / Node.js ServiceAdding a Swagger UI to Your SAP Cloud Application Programming Model / Node.js ServiceThe problem stated from the other side of the wire: a CAP and HANA backend consumed by frontend developers with no SAP background, who said in the first meeting that they could not work from what the service offered. A browsable API page is the answer, and this is the post the Swagger UI plugin indexed here exists to serve.published 2020-01-23
Adding a Swagger UI to Your SAP Cloud Application Programming Model / Node.js Service
cds-swagger-ui-express has been through 11 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.9 (2024-07), 0.10 (2024-10), 0.11 (2026-02). Affects Runnable code.
Adding Custom Metrics to a CAP application using cap-js/telementry plugin and SAP Cloud LoggingAdding Custom Metrics to a CAP application using cap-js/telementry plugin and SAP Cloud LoggingWalks through adding a custom OpenTelemetry counter metric to a CAP application on top of @cap-js/telemetry's built-in database-pool metrics, incrementing and decrementing it from a service handler on CREATE and UPDATE of high-urgency incidents. Shows the resulting metric in SAP Cloud Logging's Discover and Visualize screens, building a custom visualisation from the exported metrics data.gopalanand, published 2024-06-27
An approach to secure multiple integrated SAP CAP java applications with a common XSUAA service instanceAn approach to secure multiple integrated SAP CAP java applications with a common XSUAA service instanceOne XSUAA instance across several CAP Java applications that call each other, rather than one per application. Short, and written from inside SAP Labs as something the author tried — the value is the shape of the arrangement, not a walkthrough.sreanik_dhanyakumar2, published 2022-09-14
An Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAIAn Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAIA dormant internal app at SAP Japan revived with AI, built to solve a problem the team actually had — colleagues who could not talk to each other. Build Apps on the front, CAP on Kyma behind it, OpenAI in the middle.javieryw, published 2024-01-31
An Innovative Language Exchange App developed with SAP Build Apps, CAP, Kyma, and OpenAI
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects Runnable code.
An introduction to CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioAn introduction to CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioThe announcement of the graphical modeller, from the team that built it — what it draws, how to get a dev space that has it, and what it is for. The starting point for the two posts that follow it, and the record of when this became part of the editor rather than an idea.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-04-23
Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]The opening of a three-part series on reaching more than one S/4HANA system from one CAP application with the user's identity carried through. This part sets up the business problem; the propagation itself is in the parts that follow.mohit_bansal3, published 2022-11-25
Automate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsAutomate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsA process that drafts its own text: ChatGPT writing job postings, SAP Build Process Automation carrying them through approval, and CAP in between. Presented as a generic pattern the author expects to be adapted rather than copied.shivamshukla12, published 2023-08-10
Avoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data filesAvoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data filescds watch restarting on every file change is the feature; this is the case where it is not. Editing a CSV seed file mid-edit restarts the server against half-finished data, and the post is about suppressing that without giving up the watch loop. A small friction most people work around silently rather than fix.published 2024-04-26
Avoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data files
Local development changed in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Avoiding Data Loss When Loading Initial Data with CSV Files in CAPAvoiding Data Loss When Loading Initial Data with CSV Files in CAPcds add tiny-sample gives you a CSV in db/data and it loads on deploy, which looks like a way to seed a productive application. The catch, stated plainly: change the CSV or the schema and HANA is reinitialised from the file, taking whatever users had entered with it.MioYasutake, published 2025-09-15
Beginners Guide to Advanced Event MeshBeginners Guide to Advanced Event MeshA scenario-by-scenario walkthrough of Advanced Event Mesh, run through Cloud Integration iFlows: publishing and consuming queue messages, dead message queue setup with retry counts and acknowledgment modes, direct messages, durable topic endpoints and selectors, time-to-live, REST Delivery Points, replay by replication group message ID, parallel consumers with partition keys, and the request-reply pattern. Each scenario is built and verified step by step against a Solace trial account standing in for AEM.PriyankaChak, published 2025-07-24
Boost your CAP Development with AI: Introducing the MCP Server for CAPBoost your CAP Development with AI: Introducing the MCP Server for CAPThe announcement of the development-tool half of the two things called MCP here: a server that gives an agent context about the project in front of it and relevant CAP examples, so Claude Code or Copilot steers better. Names the agents it was tried with, which is more than most announcements do.published 2025-09-03
Boosting performance in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) applications with cds-cachingBoosting performance in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) applications with cds-cachingThe plugin's introduction post: what cds-caching is for, how it is put together and the cases it was written against. The edge holds because the plugin's README still points here as the piece to read first, so this is where a reader arriving at the plugin is sent. It predates version 1.0 and the API has moved since: the read-through calls it shows as cache.run() and cache.send() are the ones the README now lists as deprecated in favour of cache.rt.*, which returns the cache key and hit/miss metadata alongside the result, and 1.0 made user, tenant and locale awareness opt-in under keyManagement rather than folding them into request-based keys by default. Metrics and monitoring, the OData API and full TypeScript definitions arrived with 1.0 and are described in CAP just got faster: What's new in cds-caching 1.0 instead. The reasoning about when a CAP service wants a cache still reads true; the call sites need translating.published 2025-06-25
Boosting performance in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) applications with cds-caching
cds 9, maintenance until 2027-06, cds-caching 0.x, now 3.1.1. Affects A recipe.
BTP CAP : Custom plugin to separate generic change log capture logicBTP CAP : Custom plugin to separate generic change log capture logicWalks through building a custom [CAP](ecosystem:cap) plugin that centralises change-log capture: on cds.once('served') it collects entities annotated @audit, then hooks srv.before('UPDATE') to read the existing record, diff it field by field against the incoming payload, and record old/new values with the user and timestamp. It also documents a cds build failure packaging the plugin's own directory into gen/srv for MTA deployment, fixed by adding it as a copyfiles build-parameter step in mta.yaml.sreehari_vpillai, published 2023-05-10
BTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationBTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationThe same problem four years earlier: a CAP application that consumes a remote service, running locally against the real thing rather than against a mock.showkath_naseem, published 2022-12-12
Build and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configurationBuild and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configurationGeneration and deployment in one piece, with the managed approuter rather than a standalone one — so the routing is configuration instead of a module, and the post covers what that changes at deploy time.jlong, published 2022-02-10
Build and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configuration
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Build SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio CodeBuild SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio CodeAn Overview Page — the card-based Fiori elements floorplan, less written about than the list report — driven entirely from annotations on a CAP service, in VS Code rather than Business Application Studio.Sai_Nithesh_G, published 2021-08-05
Build SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio Code
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Build, Configure, and Deploy SAP CAP Projects to the CloudBuild, Configure, and Deploy SAP CAP Projects to the CloudA full CAP application with a Fiori UI taken from creation to the cloud in one post. Long, and it covers the configuration between the two that shorter guides skip.Dhanushwar, published 2025-05-20
Building a CAP service with cds‑mcp and Cline — HANDS‑ON SUPER BASIC GUIDE [ with screenshots ] 🍌Building a CAP service with cds‑mcp and Cline — HANDS‑ON SUPER BASIC GUIDE [ with screenshots ] 🍌Somebody following the CAP MCP server announcement all the way through, and writing down what it cost: a CAP service in VS Code wired to S/4HANA through a destination, plus the real bumps — Windows PATH and global installs — that the announcement does not have.smarchesini, published 2025-09-21
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4The annotations a CAP OData V4 service needs before an Analytical List Page will render — the write-up behind the cap-alp sample indexed here. Candid about its provenance: the author credits a GitHub repository she found the approach in, and notes that the repository is no longer available, which is the whole argument for indexing the reasoning rather than only linking the code.published 2023-06-12
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4
cap-alp: no published releases, repository quiet for 24 months. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Building an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable ControlBuilding an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable ControlThe successor control to UploadSet posts the file in one request by default, and against CAP that is wrong: the record has to be created first and the content put to it afterwards. The author states the two-step shape plainly and notes it may not apply to an ABAP backend, which is the kind of boundary that usually goes unsaid. Written during a proof of concept for a reusable attachment component, and it carries the problem they hit with the control.published 2025-03-13
Building Custom Authentication in SAP CAPBuilding Custom Authentication in SAP CAPpublished 2025-10-25
Building Custom Authentication in SAP CAP
cds 9, maintenance until 2027-06. Affects A recipe.
Calling bound / unbound CAP actions from Fiori elements application.Calling bound / unbound CAP actions from Fiori elements application.invokeAction from the Fiori elements Edit flow API, with the difference between bound and unbound actions spelled out first because the call shape differs. Under three thousand characters and it answers exactly one question.vidhyasagarmule, published 2024-09-07
CAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori ElementsCAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori ElementsFacets hidden at runtime rather than at design time, which needs two things at once: UI.Hidden on the annotation side and a virtual element on the CDS side to decide it. Both are linked from the post, and it is barely two pages.AjayRathore, published 2023-12-08
CAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori Elements
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe.
CAP - Specifying the queues to be consumed from SAP Event MeshCAP - Specifying the queues to be consumed from SAP Event MeshWritten against the edge of the convention rather than the convention. CAP creates one queue per application and names it for you; this is the case where the queue already exists, belongs to someone else, or there is more than one of them. The oldest Event Mesh post indexed here, and the only one about taking the naming back.schardosin, published 2021-06-21
CAP for nodejs安全的暴露接口练习CAP for nodejs安全的暴露接口练习Starting from the risk-management sample, the walkthrough adds an open ExternalAPI service beside the existing RiskService, then moves every security annotation into a separate service-auth.cds file: @requires: authenticated-user on one entity, role-scoped @restrict grants for RiskViewer and RiskManager on another. It tests the unprotected action locally with cds watch, calling it from Postman with the session cookie read out of SAP Business Application Studio's preview tab. It then deploys to BTP and reads Risks with a client-credentials OAuth token fetched from a service key of the cpapp-auth instance, after changing that entity's READ grant from RiskViewer to authenticated-user, which the post, citing capire's CDS-based Authorization page, describes as a grant for a technical user integrating systems rather than for access from a front end.ArthurYang, published 2024-12-10
CAP full-stack testing with BDD flavourCAP full-stack testing with BDD flavourIntroduces Behavior-Driven Development for CAP applications: specifications written in Gherkin against a running app, validated by Cucumber, using cds-cucumber's ready-made step definitions for SAP Fiori elements and OData screens. The library handles service lifecycle — starting the app, assigning a port, driving the browser and authenticating a named user — and its OData steps know the service's entities and fields from the CDS model itself, so a scenario can open a list report, search it and assert row counts without hand-written glue code.published 2023-10-10
CAP is important because it's not importantCAP is important because it's not importantAn essay rather than a technique: what CAP actually is, what it gives you, and the case for treating it as foundational precisely because it is not the interesting part of an application. Written in 2019, when that argument still had to be made, and the title is the argument. Also recorded as a Tech Aloud podcast episode and a CodeTalk, both linked from the post.published 2019-11-06
CAP JavaでObject Pageの項目の動的な入力制御を実装するCAP JavaでObject Pageの項目の動的な入力制御を実装するTwo ways to make an object page field editable or not from the value of another field in CAP Java, with the same rule implemented both ways. The first routes the decision through a separate entity holding default values, reached by Side Effects annotations; the second adds a virtual element the Java event handler fills. The piece is about the trade the two make — annotation-only versus a handler that runs — rather than about which is correct, and the running code is the repository it links.published 2025-10-13
CAP just got faster: What's new in cds-caching 1.0CAP just got faster: What's new in cds-caching 1.0What changed in cds-caching at 1.0, announced at reCAP 2025 by the plugin's own maintainer. The substantive change is the read-through API: cache.rt.run(), send(), exec() and wrap() replace the bare cache.run() and cache.send(), and each returns the cache key and hit-or-miss metadata beside the result rather than the value alone. The second is quieter and easier to miss on an upgrade: user, tenant and locale stopped being folded into request-based cache keys by default and became opt-in through keyManagement, or per operation through a key template. Both of those still describe 3.x. What does not is the second half of the post: the metrics configuration it shows was reshaped at 2.0 and the statistics and dashboard settings were removed at 3.0, so take the monitoring and dashboard sections from the README instead. Read it as the successor to the introduction post, which still shows the deprecated calls.published 2025-07-15
CAP just got faster: What's new in cds-caching 1.0
cds-caching 1.0, now 3.1.1, cds 9, maintenance until 2027-06. Affects A reference.
CAP multitenancy with Work ZoneCAP multitenancy with Work ZoneA gap in the tooling and the manual edit that closes it. cds add portal wires the Portal service, which is deprecated; Work Zone supports multitenancy but has no equivalent command. The author runs the portal command anyway and then rewrites the resource and module config in mta.yaml to point at Work Zone. Short, and honest that it is a workaround rather than a supported path.published 2025-03-14
CAP on Kyma - Deploy your CAP apps to SAP BTP, Kyma RuntimeCAP on Kyma - Deploy your CAP apps to SAP BTP, Kyma RuntimeThe post that superseded the author's own earlier one, written for cds and cds-dk 6 when Kyma deployment became something the tooling did rather than something you assembled. The current reference of the several Kyma posts here.Uwe_Klinger, published 2022-07-12
CAP on Kyma - Deploy your CAP apps to SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime
Deployment changed in @sap/cds-dk 8.9.0, 2025-03-31. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2PostgreSQL in a container so the local loop matches the deployed one — the thing SQLite quietly stops you doing. Short, and it assumes the project from part one already runs.ramonlee5, published 2023-11-22
CAP PostgreSql setup local debugging using Docker - Part 2
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
CAP Service to Fetch + Create Sales Order in S4 HANA Public CloudCAP Service to Fetch + Create Sales Order in S4 HANA Public CloudA CAP Node.js walkthrough imports SAP S/4HANA Cloud's Sales Order OData API with cds import, adds csrf handling to the generated service definition, and forwards a custom REST action's reads and writes to the remote proxy through cds.connect.to, the pattern Service integration covers. The mta.yaml binds the SAP S/4HANA Cloud extensibility service and a SAP Destination service instance so the S/4HANA Public Cloud system's address and credentials stay outside the application, per Destinations.Mujeeb, published 2023-05-30
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupCAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setupA full-stack TypeScript starting point recorded as it was arrived at — the terminal commands and the configuration files, in order, for the CAP side, the conversion to TypeScript, and then the Fiori side. The author is explicit that it takes a while to go through, which is the honest framing for a setup that has this many steps.Christophe_SW, published 2023-06-18
CAP Typescript + Fiori Typescript + live reload Initial app setup
TypeScript patterns changed in @cap-js/cds-typer 0.5.0, 2023-07-25. Affects Runnable code.
CAP WebSocketsCAP WebSocketsThe early one, from 2021, before an adapter existed to make it ordinary. Read for what the problem looked like when it had to be solved by hand.vvdries, published 2021-01-26
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1Actions on their own, at length — where an action can be placed, what the annotation looks like for each position, and what changes between the List Report and the Object Page. Part one of two.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-31
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2The second half of the actions pair, published the same day. Between them they cover more ground on this one annotation than the documentation does in one place.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-31
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report TablesCAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report TablesSeveral tabs over one entity, each with its own filter — the multiple-views annotation, which is one of the few Fiori elements features that changes the shape of the page rather than its content.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-25
CAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report Tables
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic ExpressionsCAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic ExpressionsThe first of the author's Fiori elements posts, and the widest: side effects, which are the annotation that tells the UI a field changed something else; custom actions; and dynamic expressions. The three that turn a generated app into a usable one.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2022-12-23
CAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic Expressions
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP with Local App Previews – Tips for Smooth DevelopmentCAP with Local App Previews – Tips for Smooth DevelopmentUI5's virtual endpoints remove the sandbox files a local preview used to need, and this is what that means for a CAP project specifically. Tips from trying it rather than an announcement of it.MioYasutake, published 2025-08-16
CAP with PostgreSQL DB alternate to HANA Cloud DB - Part 1CAP with PostgreSQL DB alternate to HANA Cloud DB - Part 1Bootstrapping a CAP project on PostgreSQL, framed as a choice that depends on the client rather than on the technology. Short, and part two is where it gets debuggable.ramonlee5, published 2023-10-10
CAP-JAVA implementation for Authorization Management Service (AMS)CAP-JAVA implementation for Authorization Management Service (AMS)Short and deliberately narrow: the author defers the concepts to kevin_li's post and writes only the CAP Java part — the development flow, designing the authorization model, and assigning and checking a policy. Read the other one first; this is the half that touches the code.Harvey_Yao, published 2024-12-27
CAP, CDS, CDL, CSN and jq - finding associationsCAP, CDS, CDL, CSN and jq - finding associationsHow associations are actually represented once CDL is compiled into CSN, worked out by parsing the machine-readable form with jq. Useful less as a recipe than as a way in: anything that wants to reason about a CDS model without the compiler has to read CSN, and this is what that looks like from the outside.published 2024-04-16
CAP, CORS and custom headersCAP, CORS and custom headersWhat CAP itself does about CORS, and where it stops. The starting point is a colleague's request and a deliberate constraint: @sap/approuter has full CORS support, but the author wanted to know what the CAP server offers on its own and how to extend it. Ends up covering preflight requests and custom servers, which is the mechanism a frontend hosted outside BTP actually runs into.published 2024-04-11
CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1Builds a CAP Node.js service from scratch that consumes the public NorthWind OData V4 service: cds import turns its EDMX metadata into a CSN model under srv/external, and a CatalogService projects Products from it with a custom READ handler that runs the request through cds.connect.to('NorthWind'). Shows the same projection working two ways — against a CSV mocked under srv/external/data with the <service>-<entity>.csv naming the framework expects, then against the real service once credentials.url is added to the CAP configuration and @sap-cloud-sdk/http-client is installed — and defers routing that connection through the Cloud Foundry Destinations service to the next post in the series.published 2020-05-26
CAP: GraphQL as new protocolCAP: GraphQL as new protocolWritten days after @cap-js/graphql appeared, by somebody who went looking for it — an introduction to GraphQL alongside what the adapter actually does to a CAP service. The first outside account of the capability, and still one of very few.jhodel18, published 2023-03-18
CAP: GraphQL as new protocol
@cap-js/graphql has been through 11 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.12 (2025-05), 0.13 (2025-07), 0.14 (2025-10). Affects Runnable code.
CAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and ChaiCAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and ChaiUnit tests added to an existing CAP service rather than written alongside a new one, which is the harder and more common case. Mocha and Chai wired up by hand, from a time before cds.test was the obvious answer.jhodel18, published 2020-05-31
CAP: Unit Testing using Mocha and Chai
Testing has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects Runnable code.
CAPVAL: A project is bornCAPVAL: A project is bornThis second CAPVAL post announces CAPVAL version 2.0, made compatible with CAP v8 after breaking changes there, with the fix shown as a custom cds.middlewares.after error handler. It restates the plugin's @validation.message annotation alongside standard annotations such as @mandatory as the input validation mechanic the project builds on, and the release otherwise adds automated tests and release-automation GitHub Actions rather than new annotations.published 2024-08-26
Case-insensitive filters in Fiori Elements (List report + CAP)Case-insensitive filters in Fiori Elements (List report + CAP)A blocker rather than a feature: filters on a List Report are case-sensitive, the business wanted them not to be, and the CAP backend is where it gets fixed. Node and Java both.Kishannaicker, published 2022-04-26
cds deploy to sqlite in-memory databasecds deploy to sqlite in-memory databaseTwo pages on what cds deploy --to sqlite does and what it prints. A reference note rather than an argument, and the shortest entry in this capability.AndrewBarnard, published 2021-04-25
cds-launchpad-plugin supercharged & ready for the future - CAP Plugin, UI5 Tooling support & Async Launchpadcds-launchpad-plugin supercharged & ready for the future - CAP Plugin, UI5 Tooling support & Async LaunchpadThe maintainer on a set of changes rather than on the plugin's original purpose, which is indexing every SAPUI5 project in a workspace into one sandbox launchpad so all of them can be tested together. What moved: it became a CAP plugin, gained UI5 Tooling support, and moved to the async launchpad — each framed as keeping pace with where SAPUI5 itself is going rather than as a feature.published 2023-12-11
CDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript DevelopmentCDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript DevelopmentThe first of a pair introducing the author's own libraries, and it states what it is reacting to: CAP derives OData services from a CDS model, but the communication between business logic, service and persistence layers is left to you, and the earlier attempt at the service-layer half, cds-routing-handler, appeared unmaintained against newer CAP. The dispatcher is the answer offered for that layer.published 2023-11-13
CDS-TS-Dispatcher: Simplifying SAP CAP TypeScript Development
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcher has been through 6 major lines since this was published, most recently 4 (2025-01), 5 (2025-07), 6 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
CDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepositoryCDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepositoryThe persistence half of the same pair, three days later: a BaseRepository putting entity access behind a typed repository rather than CQN written inline in a handler. Shares its opening argument with the dispatcher post — the layer between business logic and persistence is the part CAP leaves open — and the two are designed to be used together.published 2023-11-16
CDS-TS-Repository: Simplify SAP CAP Entity persistance with BaseRepository
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-repository has been through 9 major lines since this was published, most recently 5 (2024-12), 6 (2025-07), 7 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
cf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutescf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutesA generator from 2020 that goes further than scaffolding — an end-to-end application created and deployed to Cloud Foundry in one run. Predates most of what cds add now does.former_member604013, published 2020-07-29
cf-create-app: Create End-to-End apps and deploy to Cloud Foundry in minutes
Generators has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds-dk 10.0.3, 2026-07-02. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Cloud Integration with Document AICloud Integration with Document AIWalks through connecting Cloud Integration to SAP Document AI: an iFlow posts a prescription PDF to Document AI's job API, polls the job endpoint until it completes, and a groovy script reads back the result, keeping only the fields above a stated 60% confidence threshold. The scenario is a hospital extracting a new patient's past illnesses, allergies and blood group from uploaded prescriptions, matched against a custom extraction schema.PriyankaChak, published 2025-08-10
Communicate from a Java Application to ABAP via WebSocket RFC using JCo - Migration GuideCommunicate from a Java Application to ABAP via WebSocket RFC using JCo - Migration GuideWalks a JCo setup from classic CPIC-based RFC to WebSocket RFC: swap the application- or message-server logon properties for jco.client.wshost and jco.client.wsport, and implement DestinationDataProvider's getSSLContext (and, for mTLS, getClientCertificate) since the new connection runs over TLS. It covers building the PKI trust on both sides — a local PKCS12 keystore for the Java side, STRUST's SSL-Server Standard certificate exported and imported for mutual trust on the ABAP side — and notes that on BTP, JCo paired with the Destination service already implements this via the Connectivity service, so the custom SSLContext work can be skipped there.simon_luser, published 2025-01-21
Computed field example in CAPComputed field example in CAPAn answer to a Community question — how to count the entities on the far side of an association — written up as a short post rather than left in a thread. The answer combines CDS with Node.js service events, which is the seam worth noticing: some of what looks like modelling is expressed in the model and some has to be computed when the request arrives, and the boundary between them is not obvious from either side.published 2019-08-21
Computed field example in CAP
Data modelling has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 9.9.0, 2026-04-23. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Configure an SAP CAP Application to Connect to an SAP HANA Cloud Database in Another Global Account or SubaccountConfigure an SAP CAP Application to Connect to an SAP HANA Cloud Database in Another Global Account or SubaccountThe case the tooling does not cover: the database is in a different global account, so there is no HDI container to bind and cds deploy cannot do its usual job. Written for exactly that, and it says so in the subtitle — without HDI.JhoelAnthonyRamosRomeroPE, published 2024-10-08
Connect to Public Cloud API in Node.js via Authorisation CodeConnect to Public Cloud API in Node.js via Authorisation CodeThe authorisation code flow rather than client credentials, which is the harder half: a service key, an XSUAA instance bound to the CAP app, and a destination, with the author saying plainly that this was challenging and they hope it saves somebody the same time.Egan, published 2025-07-22
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPConnecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPMail from CAP through a company's own SMTP server rather than a hosted one, which is the case the existing answers did not cover — the author names them and says why each failed here: one needed an SMTP provider like Mailtrap, another solved it in Java. What is left is the connectivity: an on-premise mail destination reached from Node, and a hybrid profile to test it against.codebrokerad, published 2023-02-14
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAP
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Consume ABAP RFC Function Modules in CAPConsume ABAP RFC Function Modules in CAPCalling an existing RFC function module from CAP instead of asking somebody to build an OData service for it — which is the actual decision, since the alternative is custom development on the ABAP side for a function that already works.published 2025-03-28
Consume SAP Document Management using @cap-js/sdm pluginConsume SAP Document Management using @cap-js/sdm pluginStoring attachments in a SAP Document Management repository from a CAP application, using the official plugin. The point the post makes about the plugin is that it brings its own UI: a user attaches any number of documents and one Save writes them all to the repository, so the application does not build an upload surface of its own.published 2024-08-26
Consuming data from SAP Datasphere in SAP BTP CAP ApplicationsConsuming data from SAP Datasphere in SAP BTP CAP ApplicationsDatasphere as the source a CAP application reads from — the case for it being that Datasphere already unified the SAP and non-SAP data, so the application does not have to. From a real project.sudheer-tammana, published 2025-06-03
Consuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP applicationConsuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP applicationReaching into SBPA from CAP the other way round — reading its tasks and workflows rather than starting them. The author starts from the plain Axios version and says what it costs: the connection and the authentication are the work, not the call. Cloud SDK is used to generate a typed client from the OpenAPI document and then to resolve the connection through either a service binding or a destination, shown for client credentials and for user token exchange.maheshpalavalli, published 2023-02-08
Consuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP application
Workflow integration has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/n8n 0.0.1, 2026-08-27. Affects Runnable code.
Create a Business Service using CDS, Node.js, SQLite and a OData serviceCreate a Business Service using CDS, Node.js, SQLite and a OData serviceThe stack at its smallest — CDS, Node, SQLite, an OData service — worked through at length. Nothing cloud in it, which is the point: it is the shape of a CAP service before any of the platform arrives.raybanton, published 2021-07-12
Create a Business Service using CDS, Node.js, SQLite and a OData service
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Create an SAP Fiori Elements UI for CAP Node.js applications in SAP Business Application StudioCreate an SAP Fiori Elements UI for CAP Node.js applications in SAP Business Application StudioWritten the week Fiori elements gained OData V4 support, which is what made a generated List Report over a CAP Node.js service possible at all. Short, and dated in the useful sense — it marks when the generator stopped being a V2-only path.liat_b, published 2021-01-11
Create CDS Views and expose through OData service in CAPMCreate CDS Views and expose through OData service in CAPMViews defined in CDS and then exposed, which is the whole of what a small CAP service is. Written step by step from cds init onward in Business Application Studio.VenkateshMundru, published 2025-08-11
Create Fiori List Report with object page using CAPM(node.js) ServiceCreate Fiori List Report with object page using CAPM(node.js) ServiceThe short version of the generated-app walkthrough — an existing CAPM Node.js service, and the List Report with Object Page on top of it. Under three thousand characters.Md_sanaullah, published 2023-09-06
Create your first CAP pluginCreate your first CAP pluginA step-by-step guide to the cds-plugin.js extension point: scaffold a package, add an index.cds for shared model artifacts, and test it locally against a throwaway CAP project before publishing to npm, with a separate section on building the same plugin in TypeScript and compiling it with tsc. Points to the author's own cds-plugin-handlers and ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-plugin as worked examples.published 2024-12-09
Creating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application StudioCreating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application StudioHybrid testing is documented for HANA; this is the same profile against a PostgreSQL instance on BTP, driven from a BAS dev space rather than a laptop. Proposed under editor support because of where it runs, but the subject is the binding: what cds bind writes, and what has to be true of the service instance and the tunnel for a local process to reach it.valentincadart, published 2025-10-02
Creating a Hybrid CAP (Node.js) Profile with PostgreSQL on BTP from Business Application Studio
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
Creating a meal generator application with SAP Build, Cloud Application Programming and openAICreating a meal generator application with SAP Build, Cloud Application Programming and openAIIngredients in, meal suggestions out, assembled from BTP services plus OpenAI and Google APIs. A small application built for the pleasure of it, and useful here as the plainest example of CAP holding the middle of a generative flow.former_member793421, published 2023-07-17
Creating new services using the CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioCreating new services using the CDS Graphical Modeler for SAP Business Application StudioThe worked half of the introduction, published the same day: a service defined by drawing rather than by typing, projections included. Assumes the setup from the introduction and does not repeat it, so the two are one piece split in two.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-04-23
Creating structured types, enums and named aspects using the CDS Graphical ModelerCreating structured types, enums and named aspects using the CDS Graphical ModelerThe modelling constructs that are awkward to draw — structured types, enums, named aspects — done in the graphical modeller rather than in CDL.Xiao-fei_Song, published 2021-05-26