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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 your own Code Inspector checks


In this recipe, we will see how we can create our own company specific checks and categories and display them with the standard check categories. For simplicity's sake, we will create a check by the name My Check under a new category My Check category. When this check will run, it will search for the token T512T in the program and will display the number of occurrences and the corresponding line numbers.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Call the SAP transaction SE24. Enter the class name CL_CI_CATEGORY_TEMPLATE in the class field and click the Copy button. The screenshot appears as follows:

  2. Open the new class in the Change mode and the CONSTRUCTOR method in the Edit mode. Add the code given in the following screenshot:

  3. Next, we will create a copy of the CL_CI_TEST_SCAN_TEMPLATE class having the name ZST9_CL_CI_CHECK. In the CONSTRUCTOR method, add the code given in the following screenshot:

  4. Add the code in the run method of the Check class, which is given...