Association and Navigation in Odata Service –

SAP Netweaver Gateway

What is meant by Association and Navigation Property?

Associations define the relationship between two or more Entity

Types.
Instances of associations are grouped in Association Sets.

Navigation Properties are special properties on Entity Types

which are bound to a specific association and can be used to refer
to associations of an entity.
 How to do it?

Association based
Sales Header on Key
Sales Item Entity
Entity Type
Type

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 Create a New Project. Create an Entity Type along with Entity Set.

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 Create one more Entity type which has a common field with the previous Entity type. Example : Vbeln.

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 Right click on the Association Folder and create based on the Common field between the 2 entity sets.
i.e Vbeln. Once Association is created then it will show in the Navigation properties of the Entity set from
which we made Association.
Association Set is also created along with the Association. Referantial Constraints will have the key field
based on which we created Association.

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 Create GetEntity(Read)/ GetEntitySet(Query) service operations for each EntitySet based on the RFC
that we want to implement and Map it.

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Now Goto SAP Gateway Client and select the EntitySets. Now add the input value and add the Associationname to
it then execute. Here we can see the data based on the Association.

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Thank you.

Any Questions?

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