How do I make and test a gateway entity set with only the create operation?

[derek_morin]

How do I make and test a gateway entity set with only the create operation?

I frequently see blogs with comments like:

To test POST operation, 1^st execute GET operation and then press Use as Request button which will copy the response to request window and then select operation POST and execute.

Is there a way to get a "blank" document for using as a request without implementing the "get" operation?

I am writing a backend RFC to create maintenance orders and I want to expose it via the gateway.

[kammaje_cis · Accepted solution]

It is actually easy to build the request body in json. Try hand coding as below.

For example

{

'property1' : 'value1',

'property2': 'value2',

'property3': 'value3',

'property4': 'value4'

}

[derek_morin]

I was able to change an update call by manually tweaking the xml. Krishna's post gave me the confidence that I could just easily tweak the xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xml:base="http://xxxxxxxxxxx/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZAPMEXTERNALDATA" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
 <link href="CreateMaintOrderSet" rel="edit" title="CreateMaintOrderSet"/>
 <content type="application/xml">
  <m:properties>
  <d:OrderType></d:OrderType>
  <d:ShortText></d:ShortText>
  <d:FunctLoc>?0100000000000000195</d:FunctLoc>
  </m:properties>
 </content>
</entry>