Upgrading and Migrating SAP SuccessFactors Connector to Version 5.0 - Mule 4

Upgrade Anypoint Connector for SAP SuccessFactors (SuccessFactors Connector) to version 5.x.

Supported Upgrade Paths

From Version	To Version
4.x	5.x

From Version

To Version

4.x

5.x

Changes in This Release

SAP SuccessFactors Connector 5.0 includes these changes.

Basic Authentication is now deprecated.
In OAuth SAML Bearer Assertion Authentication:
- The private key from the X.509 certificate. and The authorisation url. fields are removed.
  
  For more information about how to generate a keystore file, refer to Generate a Keystore File.
- Key store, Store password, Type, and Certificate alias fields are added.
- Scopes is moved from the Advanced tab to the General tab.

Upgrade Prerequisites

Before you perform the upgrade, you must create a backup of your files, data, and configurations in case you need to restore to them.

Upgrade Steps

Follow these steps to perform the upgrade:

In Anypoint Studio, create a Mule project.
In the Mule Palette view, click Search in Exchange.
In Add Dependencies to Project, enter successfactors in the search field.
In Available modules, select SuccessFactors and click Add.
Click Finish.
Verify that the SAP SuccessFactors Connector dependency version is 5.0.0 in the pom.xml file in the Mule project.

Studio upgrades the connector automatically.

Verify the Upgrade

After you install the latest version of the connector, follow these steps to verify the upgrade:

In Studio, verify that there are no errors in the Problems or Console views.
Verify that there are no problems in the project pom.xml file.
Test the connection to verify that the operations work.

Troubleshoot

If there are problems with caching the parameters and caching the metadata, try restarting Anypoint Studio.

Revert the Upgrade

If it is necessary to revert to the previous version of SAP SuccessFactors Connector, change the sap-successfactors-connector dependency version 5.0.0 in the project’s pom.xml to the previous version.

You must update the project’s pom.xml in Anypoint Studio.