Enterprise Sales and Procurement Model (ESPM) Cloud Native is a reference application to showcase how Resilience patterns can be implemented in a Cloud Native application. It’s built based on microservices architecture principles. Each microservice is built as a Spring Boot application. The current scope of the application showcases the below resilience patterns.
Unit Isolation
These patterns are showcased through implementing a business scenario of an eCommerce site that sells electronic products. The eCommerce site supports two personas.
The ESPM application consists of five microservices and one external service.
Customer Service - This service process Customer and Shopping cart information
Product Service - This service can be used to process products and stock information
Sales Service - Sales Orders are processed by this service. Each time a sales order is created, it’s not directly inserted into the database, but inserted into a queue. A background process called worker picks the message from queue and inserts to the database. The rationale behind this approach is explained later in the document. For read operation on sales order, its directly read from the database.
Worker - Background process which picks the Sales Order from the queue and inserts it into the database.
Gateway - It’s an optional component and acts as entry point for the complete application. It also acts as a reverse proxy and routes the request to the appropriate microservice. The UI for the application is integrated into the Gateway module. Then UI of the application consists of two parts
Webshop: An application where an authenticated Customer can buy products by creating Sales Order
Retailer: An application where an authenticated and authorized Sales Manager known as Retailer can approve/reject sales orders. Only a user with retailer role will be able to access the end point.
External Tax Service - This is a service which is external to the application and used to do tax calculation. This Tax calculation service is provided, to be used along with the implementation of Circuit Breaker, Quarantine pattern. This service is also used in showcasing the app-to-app communication between two microservices deployed in the same subaccount, but bounded to two different Authorization and Trust Management services. For more information, see referencing the application in the documentation for SAP Business Technology Platform.
A Domain Driven Design approach was used to decide the capabilities of each microservices. The Customer and Cart entities are part of the Customer Microservice and Product and Stock entities are part of the Product Service. To keep things simple, there is only one entity in Sales Service which is the Sales Order entity. In real world scenarios, Sales Entity might have Sales Order Header and Sales Order Line Items Entity and more. The Product and Customer service has its own database while Sale and worker shares the same database.
Each of the resilience patterns has been fit into architecture of the ESPM Application to showcase how they can make an application resilient during potential failures. These are some of the potential places where the pattern could be applied. There could be more points in the application where the pattern could have been applied to make it more resilient.
In a distributed environment some resources may not be reachable or unavailable due to network latency or network glitches. A simple retry might cause the execution of a task to succeed which would have failed, if no retry was attempted. This pattern is showcased by wrapping the database calls in Product and Customer Service with a retry. This ensures that if the database is not momentarily reachable a retry will ensure that the task succeeds.
It's usually not possible to predict how long it will take for response while calling an external service. Defining a timeout ensures that the caller be interrupted and does not wait indefinitely if the no response is received. The timeout is implemented in the Sales Service while calling the external Tax Service. This ensures that Sales Service is not indefinitely blocked by calls to Tax Service.
This pattern addresses the challenge in communicating with an external system. The status of the external system is not known, and it could be under load and not responding. The circuit breaker tackles these problems by introducing a kind of circuit for each external dependency. If a problem is identified, the circuit on the caller side controls the behavior of the calls in future. The circuit breaker is implemented in the Sale Service of ESPM application for communicating with the external Tax service. The Tax service could be temporarily, unavailable, under load or non-responsive. The Circuit Breaker ensures that if Tax service is not reachable the circuit is opened, and no future calls goes Tax service and a fall back service or mechanism is used for Tax Calculation.
Introduction of a queue brings the application closer to an asynchronous processing paradigm. It based on assumption that computing resources like U and memory are not infinite. The bounded queue implementation in Sale Service can ensure that in case there are spikes in the rate at which Sales Orders are created, they can be slowed down by inserting into the queue first. The number of requests, the application can process at a point in time can be decided by the size of queue. If the queue becomes full, it creates a back pressure by rejecting messages. This ensures that application is not getting overloaded and does not crash. Also, a secondary advantage is that, if due to network latency, database is not available momentarily, the data can remain in the queue. Once the database is available, the worker can pick the data from queue and write to database. In Business Technology Platform, SAP Event Mesh service provides an unbounded queue. It follows a pay per message model.
This pattern focuses on handling the rate at which requests are coming and reject requests before processing, if the system can't handle it. Each request consumes memory. If the system tries to process too many requests than it can handle, it can crash. Shedding the load by rejecting requests which it can't handle as early as possible, ensures that the application remains healthy and does not crash. The system can define a fixed rate for accepting request or be elastic and decide at runtime the current load on resources and decide to accept or reject the request. The Shed Load pattern is implemented in Product and Customer Service to avoid spike in the number of concurrent requests handled by the application. The number of requests which can be processed at a point in time is fixed to specific number and the requests exceeding this number is rejected.
The focus of this pattern is on the design of the failure unit. A failure unit is the entity of an application that can fail without overall availability of the entire application being affected. The microservices architecture paradigm itself brings in a level of unit isolation while applying methodology of domain driven design to define the units.
Before running ESPM application one would need
Note: Please set the npm registry for @sap libraries using the command :
npm set @sap:registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install -g @sap/cds
cf install-plugin multiapps
npm install -g mbt
For Running locally:
Note: Qpid Broker-J 8.0 is incompatible with JDK 11.
- Extract the zip and navigate to the bin directory
- To run Qpid server
- Windows - Run the qpid-server.bat
- Linux/Mac - Run ./qpid-server
Note: If you're facing issues in starting the qpid server, please delete the already existing Qpid\config.json file and then restart the server again.
- On Linux/Mac /Users/
/config.json - add the property "secureOnlyMechanisms": [], in the config.json file to disable SSL, as indicated in sample file. Please do not use the sample file but update your own config.json file with this property.
- Stop Qpid server and start it again
- The default Qpid user is guest and password is also guest
Run the downloaded installer and follow the instructions to install and run the PostgreSQL.
make a note of the password and port number
For Cloud:
cf install-plugin multiapps
cf add-plugin-repo CF-Community https://plugins.cloudfoundry.org
git clone https://github.com/SAP-samples/cloud-espm-cloud-native.git
mvn clean install
from the root folder of the project. If tests need to be skipped, run the command mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
Follow steps below to run each microservice of ESPM one by one. Please ensure that message server and SQL Database server are running before you start.
Navigate to /customer-service/src/main/resources
in the project you have cloned
If required update the <PORT_NO>
, <DATABASE_NAME>
, <USERNAME>
, <PASSWORD>
in application.properties file.
#Local postgresql DB configuration
jdbc.sql.driverClassName = org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.sql.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:<PORT_NO>/<DATABASE_NAME>
jdbc.sql.username = <USERNAME>
jdbc.sql.password = <PASSWORD>
The default values for the parameters mentioned above are already present in the application.properties file.
Navigate to customer-service folder and execute the command to run the application
mvn spring-boot:run
Ensure that the following log is found in the bottom of the console
INFO 35816 --- [ main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 9991 (http)
INFO 35816 --- [ main] com.sap.refapps.espm.Application : Started Application in 7.806 seconds (JVM running for 12.842)
Test the Customer Service by running the url http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/viola.gains@itelo.info
Navigate to /product-service/src/main/resources
in the project you have cloned
If required update the <PORT_NO>
,<DATABASE_NAME>
, <USERNAME>
, <PASSWORD>
in application.properties file.
#Local postgresql DB configuration
jdbc.sql.driverClassName = org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.sql.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:<PORT_NO>/<DATABASE_NAME>
jdbc.sql.username = <USERNAME>
jdbc.sql.password = <PASSWORD>
The default values for the parameters mentioned above are already present in the application.properties file.
Navigate to product-service folder and execute the command to run the application
mvn spring-boot:run
Ensure that the following log is found in the bottom of the console
INFO 35816 --- [ main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 9992 (http)
INFO 35816 --- [ main] com.sap.refapps.espm.Application : Started Application in 7.806 seconds (JVM running for 12.842)
Test the Product Service by running the url http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products
Navigate to /worker/src/main/resources
in the project you have cloned
If required update the <PORT_NO>
,<DATABASE_NAME>
, <USERNAME>
, <PASSWORD>
in application.properties file.
#Local postgresql DB configuration
jdbc.sql.driverClassName = org.postgresql.Driver
postgresql.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:<PORT_NO>/<DATABASE_NAME>
jdbc.sql.username = <USERNAME>
jdbc.sql.password = <PASSWORD>
The default values for the parameters mentioned above are already present in the application.properties file.
Ensure that Qpid and PostgreSQL are running in your system.
Navigate to worker folder and execute the command to run the application
mvn spring-boot:run
Ensure that the following log is found in the bottom of the console
INFO 35816 --- [ main] com.sap.refapps.espm.Application : Started Application in 7.806 seconds (JVM running for 12.842)
Tax service is an external service. This service does Tax calculation while a sales order is created. Tax Service can be locally deployed by following these steps.
Navigate to /sale-service/src/main/resources
in the project you have cloned
If required update the <PORT_NO>
, <DATABASE_NAME>
, <USERNAME>
, <PASSWORD>
in application.properties file.
#Local postgresql DB configuration
jdbc.sql.driverClassName = org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.sql.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:<PORT_NO>/<DATABASE_NAME>
jdbc.sql.username = <USERNAME>
jdbc.sql.password = <PASSWORD>
The default values for the parameters mentioned above are already present in the application.properties file.
Update the tax.service parameter with the url where tax service is running locally.
Navigate to sale-service folder and execute the command to run the application
mvn spring-boot:run
Ensure that the following log is found in the bottom of the console
INFO 35816 --- [ main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 9993 (http)
INFO 35816 --- [ main] com.sap.refapps.espm.Application : Started Application in 7.806 seconds (JVM running for 12.842)
Test the Sale Service by running the url http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
Lifecycle | Life Cycle Status Name | Note |
---|---|---|
N | New | When the Sales Order is created |
I | In Progress | |
C | Cancelled | When the product is Out Of Stock |
S | Shipped | When the Sales Order is Shipped |
R | Rejected | When the Sales Order is Rejected by Retailer |
D | Delivered |
In the root folder of the project, execute the command to build the Gateway project (Gateway is a Node.js project, but it can be built using maven node plugins)
mvn clean install -pl gateway
Gateway acts as the single-entry point into the ESPM application. It's implemented using SAP HANA XS Advanced Approuter library.
Navigate to gateway folder.
Change the authenticationMethod and authenticationType to none
in xs-app.json.
Configure all three microservice end point by specifying the name (destination name) and local url of the microservice in the file default-env.json as shown below
{ "name": "customer-service", "url": "http://localhost:9991", "strictSSL": false }
Approuter port can be configured via PORT parameter in default-env.json. By default, the port is set to 9999
Once all microservices are running and their endpoints are specified in default-env.json, API gateway being a Node.js component can be run via the command from gateway project .\node\npm start
to run it locally.
This will start gateway in the url http://localhost:9999
Once gateway is started all the microservice are accessible via the gateway url http://localhost:9999 E.g. Get Customer by Email Address http://localhost:9999/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{emailAddress}
The below are the list of local service API endpoints of all the microservices.
Create Customer | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/ |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"emailAddress": "<customer-emailId>", "phoneNumber": "0123456789", "firstName": "new", "lastName": "customer", "dateOfBirth": "19900911", "city": "Bang, KR", "postalCode": "112233", "street": "100ft Road", "houseNumber": "123", "country": "IN"} |
Get Customer by Email ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{emailAddress} |
Method | GET |
Create Cart | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{customerId}/carts/ |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"productId": "HT-1000", "name" :"Notebook Basic 15", "checkOutStatus": "false","quantityUnit": 3} |
Get Cart by Customer ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{customerId}/carts/ |
Method | GET |
Update Cart by Item ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{customerId}/carts/{itemId} |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | PUT |
Body | "productId": "HT-1000", "name" :"Notebook Basic 15", "quantityUnit": 10,"checkOutStatus": false} |
Delete Cart by Item ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/{customerId}/carts/{itemId} |
Method | DELETE |
Get All Products | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products |
Method | GET |
Get Product by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products/{productId} |
Method | GET |
Get Stock by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/stocks/{productId} |
Method | GET |
The stock is updated by quantity specified in the payload. e.g. if the current quantity is 50 and in payload in the body for update stock request quantity is provided as 20 the quantity will be updated to 70.
Update Stock by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/stocks/{productId} |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | PUT |
Body | {"productId": "HT-1000","quantity": 20} |
Create Sales Order | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"customerEmail": "viola.gains@itelo.info","productId": "HT-1000","productName" :"Notebook Basic 15" , "currencyCode": "EUR", "grossAmount":956,"quantity":4} |
Get Sales Order by Sales Order ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/{salesOrderId} |
Method | GET |
Get Sales Order by Customer Email ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/email/{emailAddress} |
Method | GET |
Get All Sales Order | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/ |
Method | GET |
Get Tax Amount | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | http://localhost:9994/tax.svc/api/v1/calculate/tax?amount=1000 |
Method | GET |
To test the ESPM application, Postman REST Client can be used. A Postman collection which is provided here has all the request URLs and sample request body payloads (in case of a POST request).
To run the application on Cloud Foundry you need an account on SAP Business Technology Platform Productive account. Please note that in SAP Business Technology Platform Cloud Foundry Environment, for a trial account, there is limited resource and you get a RAM of 2 GB which is not sufficient to run the complete ESPM application.
Check if the Cloud Foundry Space you will be deploying the application has the following entitlements:
Service | Plan | Number of Instances |
---|---|---|
SAP Event Mesh | default | 1 |
SAP HANA Schemas & HDI Containers | schema | 1 |
SAP HANA cloud | hana | 1 |
Cloud Foundry Runtime | 7 |
Create SAP HANA cloud instance with plan hana. If the SAP HANA cloud instance is present in another space share with your space as described here
If there are multiple instances of SAP HANA cloud in the space where you plan to deploy this application, please modify the mta.yaml as shown below. Replace
with the id of the database you would like to bind the application with : # Hana Schema - name: espm-hana-db type: com.sap.xs.hana-schema parameters: service: hana service-plan: schema config: database_id: <database_guid>
The ESPM application has a dependency to Tax Service Application which is a mock external service and needs to be separately deployed. Tax service is bound to its own instance of the Authorization and Trust Management service(XSUAA).
Please note that the ESPM application and Tax Service application should be deployed on the same CF space.
The security implementation in the ESPM application is based on Spring Security. Spring applications using the Spring-security libraries can integrate with the SAPBusiness Technology Platform Authorization and Trust Management service as described here. ESPM Application implements app-to-app communication so that two microservices can securely communicate with each other. This application showcases how to implement a secure communication using two different ways:
In this approach, the business user is authenticated and his authorizations are used to call another microservice. The user is therefore known to the microservice that he is calling.
In this approach, a technical user is used to access data from another microservice. The called microservice grants the calling application the necessary rights without identifying a user.
Both methods have their use cases, depending on whether or not you need to identify the business user and grant access based on his authorizations or using a technical user is sufficient.
The steps below describe how authentication and authorization is implemented in the ESPM application.
As a pre prerequisite, the sale-service and product-service should be bound to same xsuaa instance.
Add the application security descriptor file (xs-security.json) to the project.
This file can be found in the root folder of the project.
Define a role Retailer within the application security descriptor.
Only a person assigned the Retailer role will be able to access the retailer UI of the ESPM application to process the sales orders.
Configure scope checks for validating jwt tokens.
This is done in the sale-service and product-service by extending the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter class.
Implement app-to-app communication for the business user in the createSalesOrder method of class com.sap.refapps.espm.controller.SalesOrderController
in the sale-service microservice
Implement app-to-app communication for the business user in the UpdateStockbyProductID method in the com.sap.refapps.espm.controller.ProductController
class of the product-service microservice.
When a Retailer logs in to accept a sales order created by a customer, the business user is propagated from the sale-service to product-service for a stock check before accepting a sales order. This ensures that enough stock is available before a sales order is accepted and only a user with the Retailer role has the permission to do a stock check.
App-to-app communication for the technical user is implemented between the sale-service and the tax-service using client-credential flow. The sale-service and the tax-service are bound to different XSUAA instances.
The sale-service is bound to the instance espm-xsuaa(which uses xs-security.json).
The tax-service is bound to the instance espm-xsuaa-tax(which uses xs-security-tax.json).
The tax-service grants a scope to the sales-service using the property "grant-as-authority-to-apps" in the xs-security-tax.json. This property has the value ["$XSAPPNAME(application,espm-cloud-native-uaa)"] where espm-cloud-native-uaa is the xs-appname of the espm-xsuaa service.
The sales-service accepts the granted authorities. This is achieved by the property "$ACCEPT_GRANTED_AUTHORITIES" in the xs-security.json. This ensures that the tax-service trusts the sale-service and hence technical user communication between the two services is achieved using client credentials flow.
For more information, refer to section referencing the application in the documentation for SAP Business Technology Platform.
Open em-default.json file and update "namespace": "<yourorgname>/<any_messageclientname>/<uniqueID>"
e.g "namespace": "myorg/espm/1"
For more details, check here
Replace the QUEUE_NAME
for sales-svc(<unique-id>-espm-sales-svc
), worker(<unique-id>-espm-worker
) apps in manifest.yml file with the new queue name that was created based on the namespace, name provided in the previous step.
For more Information, refer to section redirect-uris
The Tax Service Application can be deployed in two ways:
Please note that the ESPM application and Tax Service application should be deployed on the same CF space.
Navigate to tax-service folder
Create a service instance of the Authorization and Trust Management service with application
plan by running the command cf create-service xsuaa application espm-xsuaa-tax -c xs-security-tax.json
. This instance is to be bound to Tax Service
Edit the manifest.yml file and update <unique_id>
with some unique value for applications name
Deploy Tax Service on to Cloud Foundry from the tax-service project folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-tax-svc
from CLI.
The TAX SERVICE can be accessed in Cloud Foundary in either of the 2 ways:
Destination Services (Recommended):
cf create-service destination lite espm-destination
espm-destination
service instance in your space.. Create a new destination by clicking New Destination
and filling with the properties as shown below. (URL of tax service running on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).)
From the tax-service folder where mta.yaml is kept for tax-service application run the command:
mbt build -p=cf
This will package your application to be ready for deployment.
To Deploy MTAR, run the command:
cf deploy mta_archives/cloud-espm-cloud-native-tax_1.3.2.mtar
Destination will be used by ESPM Application to consume the Tax Service which is an external service.
From the SAP BTP Cockpit go to your Sub Account and click Destination.
Create a new destination by clicking New Destination
and filling with the properties as shown below. (URL of tax service running on SAP Business Technology Platform.)
In the root folder of project edit the manifest.yml file and update <unique_id>
with some unique value for each application name
Replace <your_domain>
with your domain name. e.g cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com
update QUEUE_NAME
parameter for applications espm-sales-svc(<unique-id>-espm-sales-svc
) and espm-worker(<unique-id>-espm-worker
) with value
"<yourorgname>/<any_messageclientname>/<uniqueID>/salesorderqueue"
e.g myorg/espm/1/salesorderqueue
Do a maven build of complete application from command line by running command mvn clean install
from the projects root folder.
Create an instance of the destination service by using the command cf create-service destination lite espm-destination
Create new SAP Event Mesh service using the command:
cf cs enterprise-messaging default espm-em -c em-default.json
Create a HANA CLoud instance if you dont have one:
To create a DB instance of Hana cloud logon to SAP BTP in your browser and navigate to your subaccount. Open marketplace.
Click on SAP HANA cloud and click on create SAP HANA cloud.
Logon with your BTP user name and password.
In the create instance window enter the instance name .
Provide an Administrator password and confirm adminstrator password.
Specify size of the memory in HANA database. Default is 30 GB.
In SAP HANA Database advanced settings, select the allowed connection to Allow all IP addresses(For non-productive use only).
An instance of HANA cloud DB will be created for you.
Run command cf marketplace
and check the service and plan names of HANA. Check if service with name hana
and plan schema
exists
Create HANA DB Service instance with schema
plan by running command cf create-service hana schema espm-hana-db
.
Note:
In case you are using a different name for the HANA instance, please update the hana configuration file, manifest file as well with the same name.
It’s possible to use different HANA instances for each of the microservices too, in that case, you would have to keep a copy of hana configuration file in the config folder of each of the microservices with the corresponding HANA instance names.
For simplicity all the microservices are bound to one database instance espm-hana-db. If required three database instances can be created (e.g. esmp-customer, espm-product and espm-sales) and individual microservice can be bound to them.
cf marketplace
and check the service and plan names for the Authorization and Trust Management (XSUAA) service. Check if service xsuaa
and plan application
exists.application
plan by running the command cf create-service xsuaa application espm-xsuaa -c xs-security.json
. This instance is to be bound to Product Service, Sale Service and API Gatewaynote: In case you are changing the xsappname in xs-security.json, please update it in xs-security-tax.json as well. This is because tax service authorizes only an app with the xsappname mentioned here.
Deploy Worker on to Cloud Foundry from the project root folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-worker
from CLI
Deploy Sale Service on to Cloud Foundry from the project root folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-sales-svc
from CLI.
Learn resilience patterns implemented in Sale and worker services
Stop Sale and Worker service.
Deploy Product Service on to Cloud Foundry from the project root folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-product-svc
from CLI.
Deploy Customer Service on to Cloud Foundry from the project root folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-customer-svc
from CLI.
Before deploying Gateway Service on Cloud Foundry please check the authenticationMethod should be route
and the authenticationType should be none
in
xs-app.json.
Deploy Gateway Service on to Cloud Foundry from the project root folder by running command cf push <unique_id>-espm-gateway
from CLI.
Learn resilience patterns implemented in Product and Customer services
In mta.yml update QUEUE_NAME
parameter for modules espm-sales-svc and espm-worker with value
"<yourorgname>/<any_messageclientname>/<uniqueID>/salesorderqueue"
e.g myorg/espm/1/salesorderqueue
In case you are using a different name for the HANA instance, please update the hana configuration file, mta file as well with the same name.
From the root folder where mta.yaml is kept run the command:
mbt build -p=cf
This will package your application to be ready for deployment.
To Deploy MTAR, run the command:
cf deploy mta_archives/cloud-espm-cloud-native_1.3.1.mtar
Note: If you need to undeploy the application, you will have to delete the salesOrder queue manually before doing so.
Steps for the same:
- Go to subscriptions in cockpit.
- click on "Go to application" for SAP Event Mesh application.
- Open the message client.
- Delete the queue
The ESPM application defines a role template called as Retailer
and a role collection called as Retailer-RoleCollection
in the application security descriptor (xs-security.json). Users need this Retailer role collection to accept sales orders. Creation of sales orders can be done by anonymous users. For more information about adding roles to role collection, see Add Roles to Role Collections in the documentation for SAP Business Technology Platform.
We need to assign the role which we have created in the previous step to the user. For more information about assigning role collections, see Assign Role Collections in the documentation for SAP Business Technology Platform.
In your Subaccount, navigate to Security > Users.
Enter the e-mail address of the user in search bar, select and Expand.
Choose Assign Role Collection.
Select the required Retailer role to assign it to the user.
From CLI run command cf apps
Note down the URL for application espm-gateway. This would be appearing as
Launch URL for Webshop application https://
You will be redirected to authenticate to your user.
You will be presented with a screen where you can enter using the email address provided for a customer. You can use existing customer email or you can register a new customer.
Continue with eg: paul.burke@itelo.info / viola.gains@itelo.info
View all Products details.
You can edit the number of quantity by entering the number in the column. Click on add to cart.
Click on Add to cart, if quantity is not added, minimum of 1 item is taken.
Click on Cart icon on top right to checkout your order.
You are presented with a screen with all added cart items. Click on Step 2. You can see your logged in email.
Add dummy credit card information. Please do not enter real information. You can add more products or you can cancel the checkout operation.
Click on Review. You can see all the details. Click on Place Order to place the order.
You can see the sales order information by clicking the top right second icon near cart icon.
Status of the Sales Order can be New, Rejected, Cancelled and Shipped. Notice that the status of the newly created Sales Order from Cart is “New”.
Similarly, this page also shows cart details in a tab.
This completes the webshopping. More, you can register yourself and follow the same process to place an order.
We can approve/reject the Sales Order from a Retailer View. Launch url for retailer application https://xxxxx-espm-gateway.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/webapp/retailer/index.html (if your account is in the Region Europe (Frankfurt) )
View both product and stock information in Stock Information page.
Click on Approve Sales Orders.
You will be presented with a screen where Ship/ Reject a Sales Order.
Click on “New” sales order and see the details of the product and click on “Ship”
You can see that the status of the sales order changed to Shipped/Rejected depending on the Stock.
Click on Reject in a new Sales order and When you reject the Sales Order, the status changed to Rejected.
Following are the four different Status code.
Lifecycle | Life Cycle Status Name | Note |
---|---|---|
N | New | When the Sales Order is created |
C | Out of Stock | When the product is Out Of Stock |
S | Order Shipped | When the Sales Order is Shipped |
R | Rejected By Retailer | When the Sales Order is Rejected by Retailer |
The below are the list of local service API endpoints of all the microservices.
Create Customer | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"emailAddress": "new_customer@test.com", "phoneNumber": "0123456789", "firstName": "new", "lastName": "customer", "dateOfBirth": "19900911", "city": "Bang, KR", "postalCode": "112233", "street": "100ft Road", "houseNumber": "123", "country": "IN"} |
Get Customer by Email ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Create Cart | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"productId": "HT-1000", "name" :"Notebook Basic 15", "checkOutStatus": "false","quantityUnit": 3} |
Get Cart by Customer ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Update Cart by Item ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | PUT |
Body | {"itemId": {itemId},"productId": "HT-1000", "name" :"Notebook Basic 15", "quantityUnit": 10,"checkOutStatus": false} |
Delete Cart by Item ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | DELETE |
Get All Products | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Get Product by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
In order to access the below endpoint, the user needs retailer role and token has to be passed in the header.
Execute the below command and make a note of xsuaa
service-instance url, clientid, clientsecret.
cf env <unique_id>-espm-product-svc
Get New access Token | |
---|---|
Access token URL | <url>/oauth/token |
Client ID | <clientid> |
Client Secret | <clientsecret> |
Grant Type | Client Credentials |
Get Stock by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Header | Content-Type:application/json , Authorization:Bearer <Get New Access Token> |
The stock is updated by quantity specified. e.g. if the current quantity is 50 and in the body for update stock request quantity is provided as 20 the quantity will be updated to 70
Below URL requires the retailer role to be added to user and hence if you are executing the same from postman, make sure you have the role, and inorder to get the Access token with scopes of Retailer
role execute the following request from postman.
Access token with scopes of Retailer role |
|
---|---|
Endpoint URL | Access token URL |
Header | Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded |
Method | POST |
Body | x-www-form-urlencoded |
The payload of the request needs to have following form-url-encoded values:
grant_type: set to password to define that the client and user credentials method has to be used for the token determination
username: set user name of authorized user
password: password of the authorized user
client_id: the client id determined for the application
client_secret: the client secret determined for the application
response_type: set to token to indicate than an access token is requested
Update Stock by Product ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Header | Content-Type:application/json , Authorization:Bearer <Access token with scopes of Retailer role> |
Method | PUT |
Body | {"productId": "HT-1000", "quantity": 20} |
In order to access the below endpoint, the user needs retailer role and token has to be passed in the header.
Execute the below command and make a note of xsuaa
service-instance url, clientid, clientsecret.
cf env <unique_id>-espm-sales-svc
Get New access Token | |
---|---|
Access token URL | <url>/oauth/token |
Client ID | <clientid> |
Client Secret | <clientsecret> |
Grant Type | Client Credentials |
Create Sales Order | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Header | Content-Type:application/json |
Method | POST |
Body | {"customerEmail": "viola.gains@itelo.info", "productName" :"Notebook Basic 15", "productId": "HT-1000","currencyCode": "EUR", "grossAmount":956,"quantity":4} |
Get Sales Order by Sales Order ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Header | Content-Type:application/json , Authorization:Bearer <Get New Access Token> |
Get Sales Order by Customer Email ID | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Header | Content-Type:application/json , Authorization:Bearer <Get New Access Token> |
Get All Sales Order | |
---|---|
Endpoint URL | https:// |
Method | GET |
Header | Content-Type:application/json , Authorization:Bearer <Get New Access Token> |
Retry patterns is implemented in Customer and Product Service to retry interactions with the database. The database might not be reachable momentarily due to network latency. But a simple retry might ensure that the next request might succeed. This ensures that the operation does not fail. To see this pattern in action in the Customer Service, follow these steps-
http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/viola.gains@itelo.info
. It should return proper data if the database is up and running.pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" stop
in your terminal/command line.http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/viola.gains@itelo.info
. Open command line and check the application logs. Since the database is down you may find connection errors in the stack trace.Retrying to connect to the database...
as shown in the below screenshot. There should be 2 occurances of the given log as the retry pattern in configured to make a max of 2 attempts to connect to the database when the database is down.
pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" start
.http://localhost:9991/customer.svc/api/v1/customers/viola.gains@itelo.info
. You should find proper data.Similarly to see this pattern in action in the Product Service, follow the below steps:
http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products/
. It should return all the products if the database is up and running.pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" stop
in your terminal/command line.http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products/
. Open command line and check the application logs. Since the database is down you may find connection errors in the stack trace.Retrying to connect to the database...
as shown in the below screenshot. There should be 2 occurrences of the given log as the retry pattern in configured to make a max of 2 attempts to connect to the database when the database is down.
pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" start
.http://localhost:9992/product.svc/api/v1/products/
. You should find proper data.This pattern is implemented in Sales Service along with Circuit Breaker pattern. It's used to ensure that any request from Sales Service to Tax service does not wait indefinitely but times out after a preconfigured time for 1.2 seconds and a fall back is used for Tax calculation. To see these patterns in action, follow these steps:
Run Tax Service locally as Spring Boot Application as mentioned
Check if the Tax service URL is configured in application.properties (/sale-service/src/main/resources folder) file as tax.service=http://localhost:9994/tax.svc/api/v1/calculate/tax?amount=
Run the Sale Service
Create a Sales Order with following data using Postman
Method : Post
URL : http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders
Header: Content-Type : application/json
Body: {"customerEmail": "customer1@gmail.com", "productId": "HT-1005", "productName" :"Notebook Basic 15", "currencyCode": "DLR", "grossAmount": 5000, "quantity": 2 }
Check if the request succeeds.
Check that the response time would be under 1 seconds
Stop the Tax Services which is running on locally.
Create a Sales Order with following data
Method : POST
URL : http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders
Header: Content-Type : application/json
Body: {"customerEmail": "customer2@gmail.com", "productName" :"Notebook Basic 15", "productId": "HT-1005", "currencyCode": "DLR", "grossAmount": 5000, "quantity": 2 }
The requests succeed, but takes more than 1.2 seconds this is because, since Tax service was down, the Sale Service after sending request for Tax calculation, waited for 1.2 seconds. Due to Time Out configuration and due to the Circuit Breaker implementation, it falls back to default Tax calculation implementation
Hit get request on Sales Services
Method : GET
URL : http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders
In the response it can be seen that the sales order is created with email id customer1@gmail.com
. The first sales order created while Tax service was up will have a non-zero value for taxAmount
field, while for the sales order created with email id customer2@gmail.com
will have taxAmount
as zero as the fallback taxAmount
is set to zero
The Sales service along with Worker implements the Bounded Queue pattern. To achieve reliable messaging, Consumer Acknowledgement and Publisher Confirms. This ensures that messages are not lost and delivered reliably to consumers. To see the pattern in action, follow these steps-
Hit the Sales Service by running the url http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
and POST the sales data.
For e.g.:
{ "customerEmail": "customer@gmail.com", "productId": "HT-1006", "productName" :"Notebook Basic 15", "currencyCode": "DLR", "grossAmount": 1000, "quantity": 2 }
Go to the folder where PostgreSQL is installed and navigate to the bin folder and stop the database by running this command pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" stop
in your terminal/command line.
Again POST some data using http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
, as Bounded Queue mechanism has been implemented, it will insert the sales order in Queue instead of throwing an error and returns an acknowledgement in the console. e.g.
The message with correlation ID 8f698df8-d5e1-484a-8743-23f5875c1d71 was acknowledged by the broker
Go to the folder where PostgreSQL is installed and navigate to the bin folder and start the database by running this command pg_ctl.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data" start
in your terminal/command line.
Now as the database is up, the Worker will pick the job from queue and push it into database, verify it by hitting http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
ESPM has a microservice-based architecture, where all the services are independent of each other and have been isolated against each other here by bringing in Unit Isolation.
In ESPM this pattern is showcased via sale service. This service needs to compute the tax amount for a Sales Order. This is done by hitting an external Tax Service. If the Tax Service is unreachable, instead of throwing an error, a fallback mechanism executes the logic and default tax value is returned. Resilience4j library is used to implement Circuit breaker patterns. To see the pattern in action follow these steps-
http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
and POST the sales data.
For e.g.:
{ "customerEmail": "customer@gmail.com", "productId": "HT-1006", "productName" :"Notebook Basic 15", "currencyCode": "DLR", "grossAmount": 1000, "quantity": 2 }
http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/email/customer@gmail.com
and check whether it returns the data, which includes 2 additional attributes netAmount
& taxAmount
.http://localhost:9993/sale.svc/api/v1/salesOrders/
.Shed Load pattern basically helps to limit the rate of request handling and is implemented in the Product and the Customer Service. The same could also be implemented in Sales Service but currently its only scoped to customer and product service.
The strategy to Shed Load is to limit the concurrent requests. The pattern is implemented in two different ways:
The simple and efficient way to limit the concurrent requests is to implement a Semaphore. Now that the concurrent requests can be rate limited, HTTP requests needs to be filtered. There multiple approaches to solve this problem. It could be solved via a servlet filter or a tomcat valve. Tomcat valve has been chosen to solve the problem of filtering the HTTP requests because filtering / rejecting happens very early in the request processing chain i.e. even before requests enters servlet context. Since its implemented at the Tomcat Container level, it ensures that all servlets/api endpoints are rate limited.
Currently all api endpoints have same rate limitation with respect to maximum concurrent request which can be handled. The number of concurrent requests that can be handled is configured based on the max.requests property in the application.properties. This can be modified to have separate rate limitation for each api endpoint by having URL pattern matching in the Shed Load implementation.
Each application component must decide how many concurrent threads it can allow.
To see the Shed Load Pattern in action using semaphore, we will use Apache JMeter as performance benchmarking tool.
max.requests
. Each component based on analysis after performance test must decide how many concurrent requests it can handle.Localhost
and disabling the Config Element Cloud Foundry
if you plan to run the JMeter script against the local deployment of the application. Vice versa if you plan to run the JMeter script against the application endpoint deployed on Cloud Foundry.Server Name or IP
and Port
parameters in elements HTTP Request Defaults: Localhost
or HTTP Request Defaults: Cloud Foundry
based on your applications endpoints.All Responses
element in JMeter.The RateLimiter pattern from resilience4j library is another very effective way to limit the rate of concurrent requests. This approach is implemented in Customer service. The ratelimiter is configured using three properties:
To see the Shed Load Pattern in action using resilience4j ratelimiter, we will again use JMeter as performance benchmarking tool.
Localhost
and disabling the Config Element Cloud Foundry
if you plan to run the JMeter script against the local deployment of the application. Vice versa if you plan to run the JMeter script against the application endpoint deployed on Cloud Foundry.Server Name or IP
and Port
parameters in elements HTTP Request Defaults: Localhost
or HTTP Request Defaults: Cloud Foundry
based on your applications endpoints.All Responses
element in JMeter.None
Please use GitHub issues for any bugs to be reported.
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