In Chapter 8, Creating Stunning UI5 Interfaces, there is a short introduction to SAPUI5 application development. The integral part of such an application is a connection to some sort of data storage, where the business information is saved, and it is being read from and manipulated. For these applications, the most common data storage is the SAP system and the data exchange is handled by the OData services. In the previous example, the application was designed to use the OData service named ZODATA_SERVICE. Now, we will demonstrate how you can create it.
Developing our first OData application
Design time
The first step in the creation of any OData service is a good design. The better the service is modeled before the initial...
