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Parsing the ABAP code

raveeshsaurabh3 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:00:55 GMT

Hello Gurus,

We are working on a utility program which will parse the ABAP code and provide information about the same. I am aware of the READ REPORT statement which can parse the complete code of a program. But wanted to check if there are other means to access ABAP code like standard classes or APIs provided by standard?

Thanks in Advance!!

Warm Regards,

Raveesh

Re: Parsing the ABAP code

Sandra_Rossi — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:35:56 GMT

There's only the SAP internal (and very limited) statement SCAN ABAP-SOURCE.

(EDIT: and CL_ABAP_COMP* classes, which are also internal and based on SCAN ABAP-SOURCE)

Re: Parsing the ABAP code

retired_member — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:04:29 GMT

I myself didn't want to point to this internal stuff 😉

Re: Parsing the ABAP code

raveeshsaurabh3 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:13:27 GMT

Hello Horst, Sandra,

Thanks for replying!!

I could find out some of the classes being used in code inspector e.g. CL_CI_SOURCE_INCLUDE, CL_CI_SCAN etc. They provide an interface to parse ABAP program. But they use SCAN ABAP-SOURCE internally it seems. That looks like an alternative to me.

Can you guys please check once and let me know your views.

Thanks & Warm Regards,

Raveesh

Re: Parsing the ABAP code

Sandra_Rossi — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:21:13 GMT

I think only CL_ABAP_COMP* adds an interesting value to SCAN ABAP-SOURCE, but it's more dedicated to analyzing data objects. So, it depends of what you want to achieve.

Re: Parsing the ABAP code

retired_member — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:10:15 GMT

I used some internal SLIN classes only once and found them slower than doing it directly and also sometimes lacking a bit behind the latest language features. No problem for SLIN, since it isn´t a compiler ...