Story Book 534 ๐ | CAPM Day 25
Today I learned an important enterprise API design concept while working with SAP CAP and OData V4.
Initially, my PurchaseOrders entity stored simple text values like:
productName
supplierName
That approach works for small demos, but it is not how enterprise systems are usually designed.
So I redesigned the model using Associations.
Now:
PurchaseOrders
โ references Products
โ references Suppliers
instead of storing duplicate text values.
After that, I tested the OData $expand query:
/odata/v4/enterprise/PurchaseOrders?$expand=product,supplier
This allowed a single API call to return:
โ Purchase Order data
โ Related Product details
โ Related Supplier details
in one response.
What I understood today:
Without $expand
โ APIs mostly return IDs/references
With $expand
โ APIs can return connected business context
This is important because real enterprise applications depend heavily on:
relationships between business objects
navigation across data models
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