ABAP Cookbook

Practical Recipes for Modern Programming
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4932-2777-8
Verlag: Rheinwerk Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: SAP Press Englisch

Ready to get cooking with ABAP? Discover shortcuts and solutions for all of your regular ABAP tasks in this practical guide. Walk step by step through important programming techniques and tools, from table management to extension implementation, following "recipes" for each task along the way. Make the most of new models and frameworks with examples built around ABAP Cloud and the ABAP RESTful application programming model. Get all the solutions you need for the most common problems in ABAP development!

Highlights:

- System fields and runtime information
- Customer data browser
- Application log
- Change documents
- Lock objects
- Number range objects
- File upload
- Background processing
- Parallelization
- Email

- Documentation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lupa, Fabian

Treutler, Sven

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

... Preface ... 15

1 ... Introduction to Modern ABAP Development ... 21

1.1 ... The Role of ABAP in SAP Development ... 22

1.2 ... The New Development Model for ABAP ... 23

1.3 ... The ABAP Language Version ... 25

1.4 ... APIs Released via Release Contracts ... 30

1.5 ... Development Environment ... 32

1.6 ... Programming Model ... 32

1.7 ... Usage Scenarios for ABAP Cloud ... 34

1.8 ... ABAP Releases On-Premise and in the Cloud ... 37

1.9 ... Restrictions Depending on the Release and Runtime Environment ... 38

1.10 ... Summary ... 39

2 ... The Application Scenario ... 41

2.1 ... Concept of the Sample Application ... 41

2.2 ... Creating Dictionary Objects ... 45

2.3 ... Generating an ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model Application ... 52

2.4 ... Creating Associations ... 66

2.5 ... Application Scenario from a User’s Perspective ... 73

2.6 ... Summary ... 76

3 ... Handling System Fields and Runtime Information ... 79

3.1 ... System Fields in ABAP Cloud ... 80

3.2 ... Overview of the Available APIs ... 82

3.3 ... Access to Time Information ... 83

3.4 ... Accessing User Data ... 90

3.5 ... Access to Technical Information on the Current Program Execution ... 92

3.6 ... Accessing Messages ... 94

3.7 ... Accessing System Data ... 95

3.8 ... Summary ... 97

4 ... Table Analysis ... 99

4.1 ... Table Analysis Using the Customer Data Browser ... 100

4.2 ... Table Analysis Using ABAP Development Tools ... 106

4.3 ... Summary ... 110

5 ... Table Maintenance Using Business Configuration Maintenance Objects ... 111

5.1 ... Overview of the New Table Maintenance Concept ... 112

5.2 ... Creating Customizing Tables ... 114

5.3 ... Generating the Business Configuration App ... 124

5.4 ... Assigning Authorizations ... 132

5.5 ... Configuration from a User’s Perspective ... 136

5.6 ... Settings in the Business Configuration Maintenance Object ... 143

5.7 ... Lifecycle Management with Deprecation ... 145

5.8 ... Documenting Business Configuration Maintenance Objects ... 148

5.9 ... Summary ... 150

6 ... Application Logs ... 151

6.1 ... Application Log for the Sample Application ... 152

6.2 ... Maintaining Application Log Objects and Subobjects ... 155

6.3 ... The BALI API ... 159

6.4 ... Creating a Log ... 161

6.5 ... Saving a Log ... 172

6.6 ... Displaying Logs ... 174

6.7 ... Summary ... 175

7 ... Change Documents ... 177

7.1 ... Maintaining Change Document Objects in the ABAP Development Tools ... 178

7.2 ... Calling the Logging Function via the Generated Class ... 182

7.3 ... Change Document Update Using the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model ... 189

7.4 ... Displaying Change Documents ... 195

7.5 ... Summary ... 197

8 ... Lock Objects ... 199

8.1 ... Lock Mechanisms in the Database Environment ... 199

8.2 ... Locks on the ABAP Platform ... 203

8.3 ... Using Lock Objects ... 204

8.4 ... API for Lock Objects ... 206

8.5 ... Integration into the Sample Application ... 212

8.6 ... Summary ... 215

9 ... Number Range Objects ... 217

9.1 ... Number Ranges in SAP Systems ... 218

9.2 ... Maintaining a Number Range ... 218

9.3 ... API for Number Range Objects ... 223

9.4 ... Numbering in the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model ... 226

9.5 ... Summary ... 235

10 ... Background Processing ... 237

10.1 ... Developing an Execution Logic ... 238

10.2 ... Creating Application Jobs ... 242

10.3 ... Checks ... 252

10.4 ... Logging ... 257

10.5 ... Summary ... 259

11 ... Email Dispatch ... 261

11.1 ... Configuring and Monitoring the Email Dispatch ... 262

11.2 ... ABAP Cloud API for the Email Dispatch ... 265

11.3 ... Integrating the Newsletter Dispatch into the Recipe Portal ... 271

11.4 ... Summary ... 278

12 ... Parallelizing Application Logic ... 279

12.1 ... Parallelization on the ABAP Platform ... 280

12.2 ... The CL_ABAP_PARALLEL Class ... 281

12.3 ... Refactoring the Sample Application ... 285

12.4 ... Summary ... 297

13 ... File Upload ... 299

13.1 ... Extending the Sample Application to Include a File Upload Option ... 299

13.2 ... Summary ... 308

14 ... Using Excel Files ... 309

14.1 ... Creating an Excel File ... 313

14.2 ... Reading an Excel File ... 324

14.3 ... Summary ... 333

15 ... Documenting Development Objects ... 335

15.1 ... ABAP Doc ... 336

15.2 ... Knowledge Transfer Document ... 343

15.3 ... Summary ... 350

16 ... Authorizations ... 351

16.1 ... Authorization Checks for Read Operations ... 352

16.2 ... Authorization Checks for Change Operations ... 357

16.3 ... Summary ... 365

17 ... Using APIs ... 367

17.1 ... Finding the Right APIs ... 368

17.2 ... Calling APIs Based on the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model via EML ... 381

17.3 ... Summary ... 385

18 ... Extensions in ABAP Cloud ... 387

18.1 ... Key User Extensibility ... 388

18.2 ... Developer Extensibility ... 408

18.3 ... Summary ... 417

19 ... Outlook ... 419

A ... Installing the Sample Application ... 427

B ... Naming Conventions for the Sample Application ... 429

C ... Installing the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse ... 433

D ... The Authors ... 435

... Index ... 437