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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi

Overview of this book

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes."SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook"ù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating transformations for structures and calling them in programs


In this recipe, we will see how we can create transformations that correspond to a nested structure defined within an ABAP program. We will create a transformation, then call the transformation from a program using the CALL TRANSFORMATION statement and pass it to a populated ABAP structure corresponding to the root element of the transformation. We will then see how serialization will generate the XML stream.

How to do it...

We will now see the steps needed to create a transformation corresponding to a structure:

  1. Call the transaction XSLT_TOOL. Then, enter a suitable name for your transformation. We gave it the name ZST6_FOR_STRUCTURE.

  2. Click on the Create button. Then, on the Create Transformation dialog box that appears, choose the option Simple Transformation and proceed further.

  3. Enter the following code within the transformation editor:

  4. When done, click on the Activate () button.
  5. Next, we will create the program that will...