The Convention over Configuration (CoC) is a software development principle designed to streamline the development process by providing default settings and conventions for developers to follow. Instead of requiring developers to manually configure every aspect of a project, the framework or tool establishes reasonable defaults that can be used…

When we need to work with external tools or libraries that are not included in the SAP Commerce Cloud(Hybris) package, Maven can be used to manage them. Each platform extension is equipped with the capability to utilize Maven to manage dependencies. Steps to declare third-party dependencies(libraries) To make our extension use Maven, we adjust our…

Recently, while setting up our new project on my local machine, I encountered a compilation error for Groovyc with the message: “Error running forked groovyc”. After investigating, I found out that starting from version 2205, SAP makes Groovyc ant task compile all builds in a forked mode for all extensions…

Swagger UI is a valuable tool that empowers development teams to visualize and interact with API’s resources. By using Swagger UI, we can provide comprehensive instructions on how to effectively use and integrate with our solution’s APIs. This includes detailed information about return types, arguments supplemented with illustrative examples and…

In Integration UI Tool in Backoffice we can view the results of inbound and outbound Integration API requests. We use it as we have integration for Abandon Carts. Basically we detect abandoned carts in commerce and sends them as outbound oData payloads to CPI, which then sends to MS Dynamics…

Recently we had a requirement to enhance our SAP Commerce Cloud solution to support WebP image format. Achieving this goal involved several steps. Let’s begin by discussing the process of enabling the upload of WebP files within SmartEdit. SmartEdit File upload By default SmartEdit supports these file types: jpeg, jpg, gif, bmp, tiff…

As we know it might be necessary to define specific response header values, for application endpoints in SAP Commerce Cloud. And before this was possible only with creating ticket to support team as noted here: https://me.sap.com/notes/0003235813 Now we can do it ourselves from the Cloud Portal. Under our subscription, we…

Recently we had issue with one of our endpoints which usually takes a lot time to return response. This is expected behaviour for that endpoint but the issue was that in CCv2 we started receiving 502 Bad Gateway errors as a response. As we know HTTP 502 bad gateway indicates…

In CCv2 backend is running on multiple nodes which means that requests from our JS Storefront(Spartacus, React or any other) can hit different nodes each time if we do not configure session affinity(sticky session). Once session affinity is achieved same server behind API endpoint will be used for all subsesquent…