Microsoft Commercial Marketplace API Emulator

This repository contains a Node.js implementation of an emulator for the Microsoft commercial marketplace SaaS Fulfillment APIs.

To make hosting the emulator as simple as possible, the repo includes a Dockerfile for a building a containerised version.

What challenges does this project address?

Integrating with the commercial marketplace has a few scaffolding requirements; a barrier to getting up and running quickly. The emulator breaks that dependency, allowing teams to start building for marketplace with zero friction. Specifically:

• Remove dependency on Partner Center
  • Partner Center onboarding and permissions can take some time to setup correctly. You can get started right away without waiting for this process.
  • Ordinarily, testing API flows against plans can only happen after they have been created in Partner Center. Emulated plans allow development to happen in parallel. Only final testing is required against Partner Center plans.
• Remove the AAD requirement
  • A SaaS transactable offer, or at least the integration with marketplace, must be built with AAD. The integration with the marketplace APIs requires the app to be registered in AAD and API calls are secured with OAuth2. Similarly, your landing page must support AAD SSO. The emulator removes these requirements to make it simpler (and quicker) to start implementing your integration flows.

Design goals

• Keep things simple
• Implement the minimum required whilst being fully functional out of the box
• Be consistent with the behaviour of APIs, note differences from the documented behaviour
• Support both unauthenticated use for simplicity and authenticated use for closer fidelity with the marketplace APIs.
• Flexible implementation that offers multiple hosting options to suit the user
• Offer configuration options to tailor the behaviour
• Provide a UI to step through and visualise certain actions

Getting started

The emulator is a Node.js application designed to be run as a Docker container for portability. Other hosting options are also possible. For more details see the relevant section:

• Hosting the emulator
• Configuring the emulator
• Usage scenarios

Using the emulator

With the emulator running, you can connect to it using a browser and standard tools such as the REST Client extension for VS Code, Postman etc.

The URL and port will depend on your chosen deployment method. eg if you're running the emulator locally using docker run, you would likely connect on http://localhost:8080.

1. Run the emulator using your chosen method
2. With a browser, connect to http://<domain>:<port> (domain, port depend on your run method)
   • You should be presented with a page for configuring a synthetic marketplace purchase token
3. Configure a purchase token
   1. (Optionally) configure properties on the purchase token (otherwise defaults will be populated)
   2. Click the Generate Token button
   3. Observe the generated JSON result
4. You can now either
   1. Use the emulator's simple, built-in landing page implementation to resolve & activate a subscription
   2. Exercise the APIs manually (eg using the VS Code REST client or Postman)

Use the Emulator's built-in landing page

1. Click on the Post to landing page button in the Token area
2. You will be taken to the emulator's built-in landing page
3. The purchase token is passed to the landing page as a query string parameter
4. When it loads, the landing page automatically calls the resolve API to decode the token
5. Key token properties are displayed on the page
6. Click the Activate subscription button to call the activate API
7. You should see a message indicating a 200 OK status response
8. Navigate to the Subscriptions page to see your new subscription has been activated

A word about the Publisher ID

Subscriptions need to be associated with a publisher. In the marketplace, the publisher is derived using claims from the AAD bearer token used to authenticate.

For the emulator, to keep things simple, we removed the AAD requirement. Instead, you can define the Publisher ID in one of two ways:

1. A publisherId query string parameter. This is set to "FourthCoffee" as a default in the emulator

   1. To see an example of this in action, take a look at the sample REST calls: subscriptions-apis.http
   2. To modify this Publisher ID for the built-in emulator functions, set the PUBLISHER_ID environment variable

2. A Publisher ID constructed from the publisher tenant and app IDs.

   1. This is useful to mirror the behaviour of the marketplace. The tenant and app ID from the app registration you use to authenticate with the marketplace APIs will also work with the emulator
   2. To modify this Publisher ID for the built-in emulator functions, set the PUBLISHER_TENANT_ID and PUBLISHER_APP_ID environment variables. Set these to the tenant and app ID from the app registration used to authenticate with the marketplace APIs. eg from the Azure Portal (see below) or Partner Center offer page.

   

You can use either approach (but not both at the same time!). The former is useful for early testing as you don't need to register with AAD, the latter is useful in the latter stages of emulator testing as it is directly compatible with the marketplace.

For more information on configuration see Configuring the emulator

Exercise the APIs manually

1. Click the Copy to clipboard button in the Token area (not the JSON result)
2. This copies the Base64 encoded purchase token to the clipboard
3. Call the resolve API to resolve (decode) the purchase token
   1. This repo includes helpers to call the emulated APIs using the REST Client extension for VS Code
   2. Open this repo in VS Code
   3. Install the REST Client
   4. Open subscription-apis.http from the \rest_calls folder
   5. In subscription-apis.http set
      • publisherId [string] simulates the Publisher ID (can be anything you like eg Contoso Corp)
      • baseUrl [sting] format as above eg http://localhost:8080
      • purchaseToken [string] the Base64 encoded purchase token (paste from the clipboard)
   6. Click Send Request (under ### Resolve)
      • You should see a Response appear with a 200 OK status
      • The payload will include the decoded purchase token
4. Call the activate API to activate the purchase
   1. In subscription-apis.http
   2. Update the planId on the activate request to match a valid planId as set in the purchase token
   3. Click on Send Request on the activate API call
   4. You should see a 200 OK status
   5. The payload will be OK

At this point you have

• Created a (synthetic) purchase token
• Resolved that purchase token to its properties
• Activated the purchase

You can now call other APIs to see their response

• eg the GetSubscriptions API would return a list of all subscriptions
• Having completed the above steps, this will return a collection with one item, the subscription you activated

There are helpers for all available SaaS Fulfillment v2 APIs in

• subscription-apis.http
• operations-apis.http

For more details on the available APIs and their operation, see

• SaaS subscription life cycle
• Subscription APIs
• Operations APIs

Functionality

The solution emulates all operations on the SaaS Fulfillment APIs v2 closely. It is close-to, but not 100% fidelity (see Limitations below.

Any solution should be thoroughly tested against the marketplace APIs before final release.

Capabilities include the following:

• Generate a synthetic purchase identification token
• This token has customisable subscription properties that can be resolved by the emulated resolve API
• Publisher ID can be set by query string parameter (publisherId) or authorization header (bearer token)
• Testing the following flows:
  • Landing page flow
  • Activation flow
  • Update flow
  • Suspend and reinstate flow
  • Webhook flows

The format of the marketplace purchase identification token is not documented. In the emulator, this has been simulated with a Base64 encoded JSON payload.

Limitations

• The activate call does not validate the publisher (as the 'faux' purchase token isn't associated with a specific publisher. This may be implemented in future.

Accelerator Integration

There are two Open Source projects from teams at Microsoft, the SaaS Accelerator and MONA SaaS that have been updated to work with the Emulator in place of the Azure Marketplace. Documentation: Integrations.

Contributing

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