SAP ABAP Experiences

The table below shows the relationship between an OData operation, the corresponding HTTP method call and the corresponding ABAP statement call. These methods are mostly used by the Developer to implement their own functionality in the corresponding DPC extension class. OData Operation HTTP Method ABAP Statement Comments Front-end method Create (CREATE_ENTITY) POST INSERT Call create( ) Read (GET_ENTITY) GET SELECT SINGLE * Call bindElement( ) Read (GET_ENTITYSET) GET SELECT Call bindRows( ) Update (UPDATE_ENTITY) PUT UPDATE Call update( ) Delete (DELETE_ENTITY) DELETE DELETE Call remove( ) Function Import GET, POST SELECT, INSERT Custom Operations Call callfunction( ) Create File (CREATE_STREAM) POST INSERT Upload a file to a database table ...

Tips:   1) FND stands for 'Front End' 2) GW stands for Gate Way / Gateway S. No. Transaction Code Description 1 SEGW SAP Service Gateway Builder 2 /IWFND/ERROR_LOG SAP Gateway Error Log 3 /IWFND/APPS_LOG SAP Gateway Application Log Viewer 4 /IWFND/VIEW_LOG SAP Gateway Application Log Viewer 5 /IWFND/CACHE_CLEANUP Cleanup of GW Model Cache - GW stands for Gateway 6 /IWFND/TRACES SAP Gateway Traces 7 /IWFND/SRV_VALIDATE This transaction exists only on SAP Gateway 2.0 (Netweaver 7.31 and below) systems 8 /IWFND/REG_SERVICE Activate Services (Unavailable in latest releases) 9 /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE Activate and Maintain Services 10 /IWFND/VIRUS_SCAN Configuration of SAP GW Virus Scan 11 SICF Edit HTTP Service Hierarchy 12 ...

OData ABAP service data types are also knows as ' EDM ' data types. The supported data types are: EDM. Binary > Fixed or variable length binary data EDM. Boolean > To represent binary value logic (True/False) EDM. Byte > Unsigned 8-bit integer value EDM. DateTime > Date and time values EDM. Decimal > Numeric values with fixed precision and scale EDM. Double > Floating point number with 15 digit precision EDM. Float > Floating point number with 7 digit precision EDM. Sbyte > Signed 8-bit integer value EDM. Int16 > Signed 16-bit integer value EDM. Int32 > Signed 32-bit integer value EDM. Int64 > Signed 64-bit integer value EDM. Single > Floating point number with 7-digit precision EDM. String > Fixed or variable length character data EDM. Time > Time of the day with values ranging from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 The above are not ABAP Data Types. They are OData service data types used at OData level, and are called EDM data types. EDM stands f...