Progress API

Provide details about the progress of various operations, such as initial open, upload, download and send store.

The enhanced Progress API provides greater details about the progress of various operations, such as initial open, upload, download and send store. The progress is measured in steps. The information includes: the total number of steps in the operation, the current step number, the name of the step, the time of last update, a parameter array for the current step and a default message.

Default messages have been translated into these supported languages. Based on the language of the device, default messages of the corresponding language are displayed as part of the progress information.

The step information is updated either by the mobile client or by the server depending on where the step is running.

Further notes about steps:

• An application may have multiple defining queries in an initial open or download operation. The processing of all defining queries is treated as a single step, while the defining query name and URL will be updated in the parameter array.

• An application may have multiple requests to send to the server in an upload operation. The processing of all requests is treated as a single step, while the request number is updated in the parameter array of this step.

• A batch request may contain multiple requests. When processing a batch request, the server provides an individual description for each request.

• The cloudProgressPullInterval parameter controls how often status is pulled from the server. The default interval is 2000 ms.

  • To get more frequent progress updates, developers can adjust the cloudProgressPullInterval to be a shorter interval.

  • To avoid the server being overloaded, the minimum pulling interval is 500 ms.

• The total number of steps is the total number of possible steps that can occur for the operation.

  • Steps can be skipped. The total number of steps includes conditional steps. But if the condition is not met, these steps will be skipped.

  • Total number of steps can increase during runtime. When a metadata change or delta link expiration is detected, the total number of steps will increase to include the additional steps required.

The following table lists the steps currently supported by Offline OData, along with the associated default messages in English.

Step	Message	Variable Parameters
buildingEntityStore	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Building the entity store
creatingBootStrapDatabase	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Creating bootstrap database
creatingRequestQueueDatabase	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Creating request queue database
downloadingEntityStore	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Downloading entity store. Received <Parameters[0]> of <Parameters[1]> bytes	Parameters[0]: received bytes Parameters[1]: total bytes
erasingExpiredRequests	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Erasing expired requests
loadingMetadata	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Performing request queue optimizer
performingTransactionMerge	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Performing transaction builder
performingCreateDeleteMerge	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Performing undo local creation optimizer
processingDefiningQueries	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Processing defining queries <Parameters[0]> using <Parameters[1]>	Parameters[0]: request name Parameters[1]: request url
processingRequests	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Processing requests. Processing modification request <Parameters[0]> of <Parameters[1]>	Parameters[0]: request number Parameters[1]: total request number
reapplyingChanges	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Reapplying changes
analyzingReceivedData	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Receiving data from the client
receivingDataFromServer	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Receiving data from the server. Received <Parameters[0]> bytes	Parameters[0]: received bytes
removingDeletedRelationships	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Removing deleted relationships
removingRemoveAfterUploadRequests	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Removing RemoveAfterUpload requests
sendingDataToServer	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Sending data to the server. Sent <Parameters[0]> bytes	Parameters[0]: sent bytes
sendingEntityStoreDatabase	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Sending entity store database.
sendingRequestQueueDatabase	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Sending request queue database.
uploadPreprocessing	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Pre-processing requests before uploading
waitingForDownload	Performing step <currentStepNumber> of <totalNumberOfSteps>: Waiting for download

For more information about OfflineODataProviderDelegate, see

Enhanced Progress API Example

1. Prepare to initialize an OfflineODataProvider.

   /// Note: you need to replace variable values below starting with "YOUR" with your own values.
   let storeName = "YOUR_STORE_NAME"
   let host = "YOUR_SERVER_HOST"
   let port = "YOUR_PORT"
   let serviceName = "YOUR_SERVICE_NAME"
   let myServiceRoot = URL( string: "https://(host):(port)/(serviceName)/" )!
   
       /// Setup an instance of OfflineODataParameters. See the OfflineODataParameters class document for details.
   var storeParams = OfflineODataParameters()
   storeParams.storeName = storeName
   
   /// CPmsURLSessionDelegate is your implemetation of SAPURLSessionDelegate for handling authentication or other tasks.
   let cpmsURLSessionDelegate = CPmsURLSessionDelegate()
   
   /// Setup an instance of SAPURLSession for authentication. See SAPURLSession class document for more details.
   let mySAPURLSession = SAPURLSession( configuration: URLSessionConfiguration.default, delegate: cpmsURLSessionDelegate )
   mySAPURLSession.register( SAPcpmsObserver( applicationID: "YOUR_APP_ID" ) )
   

2. Create a class adopting the OfflineODataProviderDelegate protocol to enable the callback mechanism.

   public class OfflineODataProviderDelegateSample : OfflineODataProviderDelegate
   {
   ...
   

3. Implement app logic relating to progress status inside these inherited functions for different offline operations, such as open, upload, download, and send store.

   public func offlineODataProvider( provider: OfflineODataProvider, didUpdateOpenProgress progress: OfflineODataOperationProgress ) -> Void
   {
   /*
   UpdateYourOwnProgressBar( progress )
   
   In this instance, “progress” is the structure that contains all the step information, such as step number and default message. Here you can apply logic against this progress information.
   For example, you can implement the UpdateYourOwnProgressBar function to update the progress bar by continuously adjusting the percent complete (current step number / total number of steps). You can also implement a function to update the status with information about what is being processed in the current step.
   */
   }
   
   public func offlineODataProvider( provider: OfflineODataProvider, didUpdateDownloadProgress progress: OfflineODataDownloadProgress ) -> Void
   {
   // Include progress status update for Download
   // UpdateYourOwnProgressBar( progress )
   }
   
   public func offlineODataProvider( provider: OfflineODataProvider, didUpdateUploadProgress progress: OfflineODataOperationProgress ) -> Void
   {
   // Include progress status update for Upload
   // UpdateYourOwnProgressBar( progress )
   }
   
   public func offlineODataProvider( provider: OfflineODataProvider, requestDidFail request: OfflineODataFailedRequest ) -> Void
   {
   // Include progress status update for Failed Requests
   // UpdateYourOwnProgressBar( request )
   }
   
   public func offlineODataProvider( provider: OfflineODataProvider, didUpdateSendStoreProgress progress: OfflineODataOperationProgress ) -> Void
   {
   // Include progress status update for Send Store
   // UpdateYourOwnProgressBar( progress )
   }
   

4. Initialize an OfflineODataProvider instance with a delegate, and create a DataService instance.

   /// Set up a delegate instance.
   let myDelegate = OfflineODataProviderDelegateSample()
   let provider = try OfflineODataProvider( serviceRoot: myServiceRoot, parameters: storeParams, sapURLSession: mySAPURLSession, delegate: myDelegate )
   let service = DataService( provider: provider )
   

5. Set the frequency for the app to fetch status from the server by changing the default value of cloudProgressPullInterval and fine-tune as needed. In this example, we change it from its default value 2000 ms to 600 ms.

   public var cloudProgressPullInterval: Int
   {
       get {
       return 600;
       // The default cloud progress status pull interval is 2000ms. Here you can set it to a time period of your choice.
       }
       }
   }
   

6. The app performs its own work. In this example, the app performs an initial open.

   let customerDQ = OfflineODataDefiningQuery( name: "Customers", query:"Customers", automaticallyRetrievesStreams: false )
   
   // Add defining query for Customers
   try provider.add( definingQuery: customerDQ )
   
   // Add defining query for Orders
   try provider.add( definingQuery: OfflineODataDefiningQuery( name: "Orders", query:"Orders", automaticallyRetrievesStreams: false ) )
   
   // Trigger initial open. During execution, the callback function will be called and the app logic is executed.
   try provider.open( )
   
   // In this example, progress information will be appended into array “updates”. You can implement a function here to process progress information. For the structure and default values of the progress status information, please see Delegate.
   

OfflineODataProviderDelegate

Use a delegate to get progress updates while an OfflineODataProvider is opening, downloading, downloading files, uploading, and sending the store to the server, and information about requests that fail during an upload. The public protocol is OfflineODataProviderDelegate.

Supported Languages

Default messages are available in these languages: * Arabic (ar) * Bosnian (bs) * Bulgarian (bg) * Croatian (hr) * Czech (cs) * Danish (da) * Dutch (nl) * English (en) * French (fr) * German (de) * Greek (el) * Hebrew (he) * Hungarian (hu) * Italian (it) * Japanese (ja) * Korean (ko) * Malay (ms) * Norwegian (no) * Polish (pl) * Portuguese (pt) * Romanian (ro) * Russian (ru) * Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) * Slovak (sk) * Slovenian (sl) * Spanish (es) * Swedish (sv) * Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant) * Turkish (tr) * Ukrainian (uk)

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Last update: November 2, 2020