topic Re: Object Serialization/Deserialization in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Object Serialization/Deserialization

alejiandro_sensejl — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:17:03 GMT

Hello everyone,

is there any implementation of serialization & deserialization (see [Wiki|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization]) in ABAP Objects? We'd like to send instantiated objects via RFC function modules, but the Workbench doesn't allow neither objects (TYPE REF TO) directly nor structures/tables which contain object references.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Alej

Re: Object Serialization/Deserialization

uwe_schieferstein — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:04:26 GMT

Hello Alej

Just add the interface IF_SERIALIZABLE_OBJECT to your class. Then you can serialize your instance into an XML stream (CALL TRANSFORMATION) which you can send via RFC.

Regards

Uwe

Re: Object Serialization/Deserialization

alejiandro_sensejl — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:28:25 GMT

Hello Uwe,

thanks for quick reply. I tested the serialization in our ECC6.0 system and it looks like it's working!

Afterwards I tried it in our old 4.6c system (the target for the RFC), but unfortunately the interface IF_SERIALIZABLE_OBJECT doesn't exist there!

Is there a way to deserialize the object again in a 4.6c release?

Re: Object Serialization/Deserialization

uwe_schieferstein — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:39:04 GMT

Hello Alej

I doubt that this is possible.

Regards

Uwe