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Question about Conversion Routine

Former Member — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:50:27 GMT

I want to get the field name and table name while I am inside a conversion routine.

For example, I want to see the table name and field name for which the conversion routine is being processed while

I am still inside a conversion routine.

Anybody has idea ?

Regards,

Arnold.

Re: Question about Conversion Routine

amy_king — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:53:07 GMT

Hi Arnold,

Under the hood, a conversion routine is just a function module, e.g., domain MATNR has conversion routine MATN1, which points to function modules CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_INPUT and CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_OUTPUT. A function module knows only about its own parameters (plus global data from the function group), which in the case of a conversion routine, are untyped parameters, INPUT and OUTPUT.

What are you trying to achieve in the conversion? Sometimes a BAdI is available, again in the case of domain MATNR, there is BADI_MATN1

Cheers,

Amy

Re: Question about Conversion Routine

Former Member — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:57:32 GMT

Hi,

there is no straight forward way to find this...If you are inside a conversion routine ( in debugging ) go to ABAP debugger>desktop 2>abap stack. Find the program where this conversion is being called. There might be some BAPI/FM/method which access that conversion routine. You can have an idea pf table or field for which it has been called.

Re: Question about Conversion Routine

wol — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:40:29 GMT

Hello Arnold,

first, I would suggest to avoid the need of coding depending on tablenames or fieldnames. Dangerous if you change it. Hard to understand if someone else reads the code.

I would suggest to define a new parameter in your search help which you can explicitly fill if you link your search help. So it is transparent and better to read.

Regards,

Stefan