OAuth 2.0 with SAP HANA Classic

[karthik1993]

Hi Experts,

We are Planning to implement OAuth in SAP HANA Classic and we are very new to OAuth space. Could someone help us to understand what could be the starting point and give us some insight on the things to consider before we implement this in SAP HANA Classic?

Br, Karthik

[dvankempen]

HI Karthik,

For an introduction to OAuth, see

• developer.okta.com/blog/2017/06/21/what-the-heck-is-oauth

We covered OAuth in some detail for application development with the SAP Business Technology Platform Cloud Foundry environment (XS Advanced)

• blogs.sap.com/2020/09/01/securing-applications-in-a-multicloud-environment/

[Cocquerel]

You may have a look on how it is managed in the application "Rules HANA connector". It is a kind of wrapper on XS Advanced that authentication is based on OAuth. After successfull authentication, this wrapper calls an other component on XS Classic using a technical user (user/password authentication), gets the result and then sends back the result to the initial caller (BTP in this case).