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ABAP ENVIRONMENT

ABAP

SAP HANA

CNA215 – See the Big Picture of the

ABAP RESTful Programming Model

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Speakers 2018

SAP TechEd Las Vegas Marcel Hermanns

October 2–5, 2018

SAP TechEd Barcelona Marcel Hermanns

October 23–25, 2018

SAP TechEd Bangalore Gopalakrishnan Ramachandran

November 28–30, 2018

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 ABAP Strategy

CNA120
CNA215

Optimize Your Custom ABAP Code

for SAP HANA

CNA319
See the Big Picture of the ABAP
RESTful
Programming Model
CNA215

A Technical Deep Dive into the

ABAP RESTful
Programming Model
CNA216

1 hour lecture
Automated Testing with the ABAP
RESTful Programming Model
CNA317

Custom Code Adaptation for

SAP S/4HANA
CNA302

2 hours hands-on workshop

Build a List Report App with SAP

Fiori and ABAP Programming Model
CNA381

Build a Transactional SAP Fiori App

with the ABAP Programming Model
CNA379
Optimize Your Custom ABAP Code for SAP HANA

1 hour codejam

Custom Code Adaptation for SAP

S/4HANA
CNA364

Build an SAP Fiori App with the

HOW TO MOVE YOUR ABAP SKILLS TO THE CLOUD AND SAP HANA

ABAP Programming Model

CNA654

Troubleshoot Your SAP Fiori App

with ABAP Development Tools for
Eclipse
CNA653
Evolution of the ABAP programming model
ABAP Platform ≤ 7.5 ABAP Platform ≥ 7.51 SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment ≥ 1808 *

CLASSIC ABAP ABAP PROGRAMMING MODEL ABAP RESTful

PROGRAMMING FOR SAP FIORI PROGRAMMING MODEL

SEGW @OData Business Service

Reference Data Source
Best practice freestyle
ABAP programming
Core Data CDS based Core Data
Beaviour Definition
Services BOPF Services

Currently best practice

Dos and Don’ts Future direction
Hands-on session CNA381
Be prepared for the new This session today
Recording from TechEd 2017
programming model Documentation
Documentation

Save investments! Integration planned for 2020

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Programming model: The mission

… for the development of

SAP Fiori apps and PROVIDE A PROGRAMMING MODEL …
Cloud APIs / A2X services
Other scenarios in ecosystem
(e.g. Cloud Migration Cockpit, …)

… offering an end-to-end experience

… for customers and partners in SAP S/4HANA Tools: standardized development flow
… for SAP internal development in SAP S/4HANA Languages: CDS and ABAP
… for customers and partners in Frameworks for optimized development efficiency
SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment Documentation: best practices & development guides

… supporting the product qualities … and being flexible

User experience: SAP Fiori and SAP HANA Out-of-the-box extensibility & verticalization
Cloud: scalability Break-outs for non-standardized implementations
ABAP assets: non-functional DONE CRITERIA Reuse in “freestyle” development scenarios

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The golden rules

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse for all development tasks

Developer on-boarding
End-to-end development flow

Language: ABAP and CDS

Standard implementation tasks via typed APIs supporting
Auto-completion, element info, static code checks

Frameworks
Take over technical implementation tasks
Business logic added in code exits on protocol agnostic layers

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ABAP Development: Must learn topics

SERVICE SAP Fiori UI A2X

CONSUMPTION Consume OData UI services Consume OData A2X services

SERVICE BINDING
BUSINESS Bind the service to OData protocol
SERVICES
PROVISIONING SERVICE DEFINITION
Define scope to be exposed

BUSINESS OBJECTS QUERIES

Data modeling with CDS

DATA MODELING & Data modeling with CDS
Behavior definition
BEHAVIOR

Behaviour implementation

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Agenda

What is a Business Object?

What is a Business Service?

The Big Picture

Optional: OData Consumption

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 WHAT IS A
BUSINESS OBJECT?
What is a business object (BO)?
BO BEHAVIOUR
CUD,
Actions,
Functions,
Locks,
eTag,
BO STRUCTURE Authorizations,
Feature Control,
R
2 Draft

ROOT
1 3
COMPOSITION BO RUNTIME

INTERACTION PHASE

TX buffer

SAVE SEQUENCE

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Business object runtime

BUSINESS
OBJECT
INTERACTION PHASE SAVE SEQUENCE RUNTIME

MODIFY READ LOCK

finalize

create_by_association

read_by_association
check_before_save

execute_function
execute_action adjust_numbers
update

save
create

delete

read

lock
TX buffer

SAP HANA

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Business objects - status overview

INTERACTION SAVE
PHASE SEQUENCE UNMANAGED

finalize
1 Application coding available
(e.g. Purchase Order, Sales Order,…)

check_before_save

MANAGED
MODIFY

adjust_numbers
2
READ

LOCK

Green field development

save

(MANAGED WITH) SAVE SELF-IMPLEMENTED

TX buffer 3 Update task function module available
(e.g. Business Partner, Product,..)
SAP HANA

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Business objects - unmanaged

INTERACTION SAVE
PHASE SEQUENCE
Application coding
finalize
already available
checkBeforeSave
for interaction phase, transactional buffer and save sequence
MODIFY

adjustNumbers decoupled from UI technology

READ

LOCK

save

APPLICATION CODE
Examples
TX Buffer Sales Order, Purchase Order

Adapter

SAP HANA
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Business objects - managed

INTERACTION SAVE
PHASE SEQUENCE

Application coding
finalize
not yet available or fine granular reusable code available
checkBeforeSave
technical implementation tasks taken over by BO infrastructure
MODIFY

adjustNumbers
developer focus on business logic, implemented via code exits:
READ

LOCK

determinations, validation, actions,…

save

Examples
MANAGED RUNTIME
New applications in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment
TX Buffer

Business Logic via

determinations, validations
SAP HANA

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Business objects - save unmanaged

INTERACTION SAVE
PHASE SEQUENCE
Application coding
finalize
“update-task function module” available
checkBeforeSave
coding for interaction phase not available
(e.g. highly coupled in older UI technology: DYNP - PBO / PAI)
MODIFY

adjustNumbers
READ

LOCK

technical implementation aspects to be taken over by BO infrastructure

save

Examples
MANAGED RUNTIME
Function module Business Partner, Product
for UPDATE
TX Buffer TASK
SAP HANA

Application code in
determinations / validations / …
SAP HANA

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Standard operations - Create, Update, Delete
BO access API can be called (EML)

Define behavior of…

{ create; update; delete; }

UI reflecting behaviour definition

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Specific operations - (static) actions
Define behavior of… BO access API can be called (EML)
{ action … }

UI reflecting definition of specific operations

MDE: expose action

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Locks and eTag
Exclusive lock for transactional changes (based on enqueue locks), e.g. in draft UI interaction

BDEF: Lock-master Error message - e.g. in UI (locks)

Travel-ID is already locked by another user

Optimistic lock (e.g. via timestamp comparison), e.g. in A2X services

BDEF: eTag Error message - e.g. in A2X (eTag)

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Demo

BO modeling and implementation

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Next steps planned

Authorizations for CUD via DCL

Feature control

Draft handling

Managed BOs: Determinations and Validations

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 WHAT IS A
BUSINESS SERVICE?
What is a business service?

Lifecycle
Protocol and use case
Release

OData V2, V4 Versioning

A2X or (SAP Fiori) UI Deprecation

…?

2
3

Service Model 1
R
4 Tool support
UI: SAP Fiori Elements preview
A2X: Documentation preview

Entities to be exposed

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SAP Fiori UI and A2X services

A2X SAP FIORI UI

UI annotation exposure Not required Required

Not required Required

Value help
(but replicated code lists) (for UI end-user interaction)

Dynamic feature control Not required Required

Draft Not required Required

ContentIDs for complex

Required Not required
$batch requests

Release, versioning and

Required Not required
deprecation

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Release and versioning of A2X services

SD creates A2X service V1

SD releases A2X service

Serv mySO M binding for V1

Model Behaviour SD sets A2X service V1 to

CUD deprecated
Actions
SD implements BO SalesOrder I
V1 R C
BO SalesOrder A2X
Model Behaviour Runtime Serv mySOV2 OData V2, V4,
(SOA) R
CUD managed V2
SD changes BO Actions Model Behaviour
XOR
SalesOrder Locks
CUD
incompatible eTag unmanaged
Actions SD creates improved A2X
Draft
service V2

SD releases A2X service

SERVICE binding for V2
SERVICE DEFINITION BINDING
DATA & BEHAVIOUR BUSINESS SERVICE

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Demo

Expose Business Object

as UI service for SAP Fiori
with SAP Fiori Elements Preview

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THE BIG PICTURE
ABAP RESTful programming model: Big Picture

SERVICE SAP Fiori UI A2X

CONSUMPTION Consume OData UI services Consume OData A2X services

SERVICE BINDING
BUSINESS Bind the service to OData protocol
SERVICES
PROVISIONING SERVICE DEFINITION
Define scope to be exposed

BUSINESS OBJECTS QUERIES

Data modeling with CDS

DATA MODELING & Data modeling with CDS

Behavior definition
BEHAVIOR
Behaviour implementation

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ABAP RESTful Programming Model: Development Flow

DEFINE ROLES
Role
SERVICE
BINDING PREVIEW

DEFINE SCENARIO
& PROTOCOL

AUNIT AUNIT
Scenario & integration test Unit test
SERVICE
DEFINITION

DEFINE
SCOPE

ADD IMPLEMENT
BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR
Authority object DCL
QUERY
DATA ACCESS CDS BASED CDS BEHAVIOR ABAP CODE
CONROL DATA MODELL DEFINITION
AUTHORITY-CHECK

Lock object

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Develop SAP HANA optimized SAP Fiori apps

Freestyle or templates based UI development

SAPUI5
SAPUI5 / SAP Fiori Elements

OData protocol infrastructure OData

SAP Gateway

SAP Gateway
One common data modelling technology for all scenarios
Core Data Services (CDS)
ABAP Application Core Data
Development Frameworks Services
Transaction, error and event handling services
CDS behavior (BDEF)
SAP NetWeaver
Effective and efficient application development
Modern ABAP language and development tools SQL

Exploit SAP HANA features and performance

SAP HANA
AMDP and CDS Table Functions

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ODATA CONSUMPTION
What is required for a consumption scenario?

Service Proxy API

For OData V2,V4

Service
Consumption Based on service
consumption model
Model
R
2

Local representation 1 3
of the external model Integration into apps
CDS artifacts not SQL-
managed

Data (partly) fetched from

remote

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Business services big picture - SAP CP ABAP ENVIRONMENT
SAP S/4HANA customer:
Bring custom solution into the cloud
as Fiori app and A2X service
Solution:
Use SAP’s business partner and custom tables,
BUSINESS
business logic already available
SERVICE
SAP UI, A2X, …
CLOUD [Consume via OData Client Proxy]
PLATFORM
Access remotely SAP’s Business Partner in my S/4HANA cloud
ABAP
instance
ENVIRONMENT
UNMANAGED [Custom Query]
Business Service
QUERY Transform BuPa and local data via custom code
BUSINESS
CRUDE QUERY Service-enable custom code via custom query, fulfilling default Fiori
OBJECT OData requests (sorting, filtering and paging)
Service enabling V2 / V4 SAP
(unmanaged) FM FM BuPa S/4HANA
CLOUD [Business Object – Service Enablement]
Handle modifications of local (and BuPa) data in my custom code
Service-enable custom code via business objects

ODATA CLIENT
PROXY [Business Services – A2X / UI]
Expose data to Fiori UI and A2X service
Custom

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Further information

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