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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
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
Handling CSV Data Deployment in CAP HDI Without Data LossHandling CSV Data Deployment in CAP HDI Without Data LossThe same trap from the HDI side: .hdbtabledata hands the container full ownership of the data, so the next deployment overwrites the table from the file. Two independent posts three months apart on the same sharp edge, which is a fair signal about how sharp it is.Sekar_Somasundaram, published 2025-06-04
ISO content for common CAP typesISO content for common CAP typesThe npm package that supplies ISO-standard content — countries, languages, currencies, timezones — for CAP's common types, and how it works underneath. The author flags the length and the reason for it up front, having followed the mechanism further than the question required, which is what makes it worth reading rather than a package announcement.published 2024-03-14
ISO content for common CAP types
Seed data changed in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
TestingSAP and community
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.
Create Automated System Tests for SAP Cloud Application Programming Model ProjectsCreate Automated System Tests for SAP Cloud Application Programming Model ProjectsEnd-to-end tests driving the UI with wdi5, run in the pipeline — the layer above cds.test, which stops at the service boundary.SAP
Enhancing Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications with GitHub CopilotEnhancing Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications with GitHub CopilotBuilt on SAP's own CAP Java unit-testing guide, and the question is narrow: how much of that does an assistant actually write for you. The author's own getting-started post is the one to read first.Anjali_Pathak, published 2025-09-04
Getting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java ApplicationsGetting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java ApplicationsThe plain introduction: what the CAP Java framework gives you to test against, and how to start. Prerequisite to the same author's Copilot post.Anjali_Pathak, published 2025-07-28
Getting Started with Unit Testing in SAP CAP Java Applications
Testing changed in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects Runnable code.
How to Restrict CRUD Operations in SAP CAPM Using @Capabilities, @readonly and Test APIs with .httpHow to Restrict CRUD Operations in SAP CAPM Using @Capabilities, @readonly and Test APIs with .httpEntities are exposed with full CRUD by default, and this is how to take operations away again — @Capabilities for Insert, Update and Delete individually, @readonly for the blunt version. Tested with .http files rather than a UI, which keeps the check on the service.DeepaRagho, published 2026-05-22
Integration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelIntegration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelIntegration rather than unit tests, and from 2020 — the earliest testing entry here, and a reminder of what had to be assembled by hand before the framework had an answer.former_member428487, published 2020-02-23
Integration Tests in a Cloud Foundry Java App using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
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.
Testing your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbviewTesting your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbviewcds.test covers the service; this covers what is underneath it, where the artifact is an hdbprocedure or an hdbview that CDS never sees. That means a real HDI container, so most of the post is about where to get one and how to give CAP access to it — the tests are the easy part once that is true.Tristan, published 2022-08-30
Testing your CAP HANA Artifacts with jest – including multitenancy, hdbprocedure and hdbview
Testing has changed 3 times since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/cds-test 1.0.0, 2026-04-23. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
TypeScript patternsDoes not apply
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.
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.
Full Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample RepositoryFull Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample RepositoryA whole repository rather than a snippet: a CAP Node.js service and a freestyle SAPUI5 application, both in TypeScript, arranged for Cloud Foundry. The build process gets its own section, which is where a TypeScript full-stack project usually goes wrong.former_member66, published 2021-12-09
Full Stack TypeScript App for Cloud Foundry - Sample Repository
TypeScript patterns changed in @cap-js/cds-typer 0.5.0, 2023-07-25. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Quick Implementation of DI/DI Container on SAP CAP: Node.js Hands-on PartQuick Implementation of DI/DI Container on SAP CAP: Node.js Hands-on PartThe hands-on half of a pair — the theory is in the author's earlier post — built on the official bookshop sample with the directories flattened so the pattern is visible rather than the scaffolding. Assumes CAP and TypeScript already.Umezuki, published 2025-05-02
SAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architectureSAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architectureThe pattern the author's two libraries exist to support, set out as a whole rather than one package at a time: a controller layer receiving the request, a service layer holding business logic, and a repository layer owning persistence — the separation CAP leaves to the developer once a model has produced an OData service. Read after the dispatcher and repository posts, or before them as the argument for both.published 2024-04-22
SAP CAP: Controller - Service - Repository architecture
@dxfrontier/cds-ts-dispatcher has been through 4 major lines since this was published, most recently 4 (2025-01), 5 (2025-07), 6 (2026-07). Affects Runnable code.
Taking CAP to the next level - with TypeScriptTaking CAP to the next level - with TypeScriptThe author's own two packages introduced together, and they are two halves of one idea: cds2types generates TypeScript from the CDS model, cds-routing-handlers arranges the handlers that use them. Published in 2020, years before cds-typer, which makes it the earliest answer in the graph to a question the core answered later.published 2020-05-22
Taking CAP to the next level - with TypeScript
cds-routing-handlers: release and repository quiet for 46 months. Affects Runnable code.
Use TypeScript with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelUse TypeScript with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelWritten from the position of someone who avoided JavaScript for years and then had to cover CAP, which gives it a useful angle: what TypeScript buys a person arriving from a typed language, and where to start rather than how to finish. Ends on a worked example rather than a survey.KevinR, published 2024-06-24
TypingSAP only
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-tsExploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-tsPart one of two: a bookshop project built in TypeScript from cds init, with cds-typer added as a development dependency and the surrounding tools — cds-ts and node-ts — put in place so the project runs locally. A setup walkthrough rather than an argument about typing, and it stops at the point where the application works on a laptop; deployment is part two.satya-dev, published 2024-07-08
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts
@cap-js/cds-typer has been through 18 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.39 (2026-05), 0.40 (2026-06), 0.41 (2026-08). Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2Part two takes the TypeScript project from part one to Cloud Foundry: cds add mta, then the parts of the generated descriptor the author singles out as needing attention for a TypeScript build rather than a JavaScript one. The pair together is the whole path — typed model locally, then deployed — which is where a typing walkthrough usually stops short.satya-dev, published 2024-07-19
Exploring the TypeScript Ecosystem with @cap-js/cds-typer, cds-ts, and node-ts Part - 2
@cap-js/cds-typer has been through 17 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.39 (2026-05), 0.40 (2026-06), 0.41 (2026-08). Affects Runnable code.
TypeScript Sheriff: How can I use TypeScript in the SAP ecosystem? (Part 2 of 3)TypeScript Sheriff: How can I use TypeScript in the SAP ecosystem? (Part 2 of 3)The middle part of three, and the one about SAP: where TypeScript is supported across a side-by-side extension on BTP, as of July 2023. It says the SAP Cloud SDK already generates OData clients as .ts files and UI5 ships types for its controls and modules, the ground of TypeScript support in UI5, while CAP offers standard types and the new @cap-js/cds-typer generates types for a service, which is typing, with the caveat that running cds-ts commands could overwrite what cds-typer generated.MikeDoyle, published 2023-07-05