topic Re: INCLUDE ONCE? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

INCLUDE ONCE?

Former Member — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:11:27 GMT

Does anyone know a way to achieve the following?


INCLUDE ONCE YCL_MYCLASS.

I know how to do it in PHP... Thanks a lot.

Peter

Re: INCLUDE ONCE?

Former Member — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:15:50 GMT

hi,

SAP has provided this statmrnt.

INCLUDE incl [IF FOUND].

Re: INCLUDE ONCE?

Former Member — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:12:36 GMT

Thanks Avinash.

That works if an include may or may not exists.

I assume the included object already exists. What I don't know is if it has already been included.

If it was included already, I want ABAP to ignore it this time.

Regards

Peter

Re: INCLUDE ONCE?

matt — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:22:58 GMT

If the include contains data declarations, or subroutines, or class definitions etc. you'll get a syntax error if you try to include it more than once.

But there is nothing like the "include once" statement.

matt

Re: INCLUDE ONCE?

Former Member — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:10:32 GMT

Thanks Matt. I thought as much. I prefer to develop objects in includes rather than SE24, because I can see my code at a glance. But this option is severely constrained without an "INCLUDE ONCE" type statement.

Re: INCLUDE ONCE?

matt — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:47:13 GMT

If you're shifting over to doing more ABAP, it might be beneficial for you to do things the standard way - i.e. not using includes so much... Otherwise you might find people find your code hard to maintain and, worse for you, you're not used to the standard ways of doing thing!

Personally, I use SE24 but always switch on the object browser for easy navigation. ( Display Object List - Ctrl-Shift-F5 ). But I do wish we had the Eclipse environment...

matt