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Serialize deep-structure to XSTRING

former_member186608 — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:19:55 GMT

Hi people,

I have a deep structure whose components are of type CString and P and need to serialize it into a XSTRING variable.

All approaches and FMs I found only work with flat and char-like structures.

Of couse I could loop at all components of the structure and use ASSIGN COMPONENT to access all individual values and convert each value on my own. However, due to performance reasons I am looking for a built-in ABAP functionality that provides the binary representation of such a structure.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Marco

Re: Serialize deep-structure to XSTRING

kirill_smirnov — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:13:06 GMT

Hi Marco,

Did you try to serialize your data to JSON using something like this:

DATA:
       lo_json_writer TYPE REF TO cl_sxml_string_writer.

  lo_json_writer = cl_sxml_string_writer=>create(
            type = if_sxml=>co_xt_json ).
  TRY.
      CALL TRANSFORMATION id
      SOURCE tab = it_table[]
      RESULT XML  lo_json_writer.
    CATCH cx_root.
      CLEAR ev_xjson.
      RETURN.
  ENDTRY.

  CALL METHOD lo_json_writer->get_output
    RECEIVING
      output = ev_xjson.

  FREE lo_json_writer.

Re: Serialize deep-structure to XSTRING

former_member186608 — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:40:06 GMT

Hi Kirill,

thanks for your suggestion.

Yes I tried that approach already. However, in case of huge data volumes JSON is not efficient enough as exchange format between systems. For this purpose I am looking for a possibiltiy to transfer data on a binary level.

Best,

Marco