Connect to an existing RESTful API?

I am trying to create a reporting solution for an existing data source which consists of an Azure SQL database and a number of Azure tables. Existing resources, including apps and a Single Page App, connect to the API. Power BI looks like a way to extend
flexible reporting to some power users.
I have been searching for several hours but I can't find any indication that Power BI can get data from an ordinary RESTful API. Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

Hi,
For ABAP configuration additioanlly you need to set the following properties.
1.ume.persistance.data_source_configuration = dataSourceConfiguration_abap.xml
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For ex: In the backend system if you created the guest user as "J2EE_GUEST" with the role assigned as "SAP_J2EE_GUEST" then you have to give this value "J2EE_GUEST" for the parameter "ume.login.guest_user.uniqueids".
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Hi,
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DEBUG|Response------{"type":"CustomObjectData","id":"81720","fieldValues":[{"id":"195","value":"[email protected]"},{"id":"220","value":"a0KJ000000387QvMAI"},{"id":"191","value":"001J000001OrL77IAF"},{"id":"193","value":"NowTV MPP"},{"id":"194","value":"8829509"},{"id":"196","value":"Andreas"},{"id":"197","value":"Wolf"},{"id":"198","value":"003J00000145lkBIAQ"},{"id":"210","value":"777666555"},{"id":"199","value":"gbp"},{"id":"200","value":"0"},{"id":"215","value":"0"},{"id":"201","value":"999111999"},{"id":"214","value":"111111"},{"id":"202","value":"222222"},{"id":"204","value":"now"},{"id":"203","value":"xmas"},{"id":"205","value":"no description"},{"id":"206","value":"test"},{"id":"218","value":"holidays"},{"id":"219","value":"PPV-0878545"},{"id":"213","value":"N"},{"id":"212","value":"myself"},{"id":"209","value":"now tv"},{"id":"192","value":"1417542120"},{"id":"207","value":"1417542120"},{"id":"216","value":"1417542240"},{"id":"217","value":"1417542240"},{"id":"211","value":"1417542240"}]}
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Name: PPV-0878545
Unique Code: a0KJ000000387QvMAI
Status Registered
Created Date 12/22/2014 12:44:49 PM
Mapped NO
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Entity Type is Contacts
Entity Field is SFDC Contact ID

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When I issue a PUT to /apis/{aid} with import=true and contentType = application/json, I get an 400 BadRequest if the body contains operations. Note that I'm
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field 'operations' specified"}]}}
If I omit the operations field from the request body, the API is created correctly (but with no operations of course).
To illustrate, here is the RAW request (slightly modified to remove the authorization and instance names):
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(Get)","description":"Returns information about the customer with the specified ID.","method":"GET","urlTemplate":"/customers/{customerId}"}]}
The JSON looks correct to me - can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong? Can you provide a RAW request that works?
Note also that I've not included the "path" query string parameter, even though the documentation suggests that it is required when import=true. Since there is no easy way to update APIs/Operations en masse, I'm having to resort to driving
the APIM REST API and could use some additional documentation for this specific operation.

Just updating this thread with the answer...my request body was malformed - I was using an array of objects for the operations field instead of a complex object representing the collection.
So instead of this:
"operations": [
...I should have been using this:
"operations": {
"value": [
You can see the correctly formatted payload in the sample response body returned from the
GetApi endpoint.
Thanks to Vlad for pointing out my mistake!

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We are using SCVMM 2012R2 to integrate Hyper-V VMM with java using SPF REST API.For this I am using tenant API.
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If so please tell me with the example.
Thank you.

Hi ,
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