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Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

wiljer05 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:29:21 GMT

Good Day,

I am running the latest version of AIE on a 740 SP 12 backend. It works great however I constantly encounter the following issues within Webdynpro development which I cant seem to resolve / is not consistent with the standard ABAP development.

Activation of a Webdynpro View from the layout tab results in Eclipse Hanging. This has to be closed via the task manager and restarted to be able to work again.
Closing of Webdynpro related tabs often results in a exception being thrown, recommending the editor should be restarted.
The Assignment of Icons to View Elements does not work
Component Controller Method navigation from the outline / CTRL-O takes you to the definition and not to the implementation. F3 from the definition does not take you to the implementation.
Syntax Errors are only displayed on activation
Method / Attribution does not support copy / paste (e.g. Method Parameter name / Type or Attribute Type)
Forward Navigation to component controller Method from a View Method takes you to the component controller interface definition instead of the method implementation.
Navigation from the project explorer to component usages does not work
Deletion of unused Variables on component controller breaks it.
Component controllers with a attribute which has a reference to a BADI are not accessible via eclipse

I have applied notes 1949791, 2200818, 2203501, 2218389, 2224383, 2233509, 2263937, 2330264 and 2342766

If anyone is able to point me in the correct direction in getting any of these issues resolved it would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Jeremy.

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

wiljer05 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:45:32 GMT

I would also like to add that having the wizard functionality that is provided via the SAP GUI is greatly missed.. i.e. Used Component Instantiation / Used Component Method Call / Message Manager / Assistant Class text retrieval etc etc... Is there any way to incorporate in CTRL-SPACE ?

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

pavitra_raghunathan — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:41:05 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

We will validate the listed issues and keep you updated.

Regards,

Pavitra

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

pavitra_raghunathan — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:43:07 GMT

Hi,

Presently we do not have this feature. We will take this into consideration .

Thanks for the inputs.

Regards,

Pavitra

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

wiljer05 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:47:55 GMT

Good Day Pavitra.

And Another one I missed out. The format function (CTRL-SHIFT-F) on the component controller breaks the component controller also.

Kind Regards,

Jeremy Williamson.

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

arunkumar_s3 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:46:02 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

Can you please provide us with the following information

AIE version number,
Eclipse version
32-bit or 64-bit version.
In 740 SP12 which system are you using?

This would help us in replicating the issues mentioned.

As per our current testing in system (740 SP15), these are our findings:

The following were not reproducible and we require more details like steps to reproduce in detail, error/ exception logs :

Closing of Webdynpro related tabs often results in a exception being thrown, recommending the editor should be restarted.
Component Controller Method navigation from the outline / CTRL-O takes you to the definition and not to the implementation. F3 from the definition does not take you to the implementation.
Method / Attribution does not support copy / paste
Forward Navigation to component controller Method from a View Method takes you to the component controller interface definition instead of the method implementation.
Deletion of unused Variables on component controller breaks it.
Component controllers with a attribute which has a reference to a BADI are not accessible via eclipse
The format function (CTRL-SHIFT-F) on the component controller breaks the component controller

The following were reproducible and we will look into them:

Navigation from the project explorer to component usages does not work
Activation of a Webdynpro View from the layout tab results in Eclipse Hanging. This has to be closed via the task manager and restarted to be able to work again.
The Assignment of Icons to View Elements does not work

The following were the delivered features and expected behavior:

Syntax Errors are only displayed on activation
- Yes, this was the delivered behavior. As we follow lazy loading we didn't want to make a back end call for each and every change made by the customer to do syntax check , so taking performance into consideration this was decided and delivered.

I would also like to add that having the wizard functionality that is provided via the SAP GUI is greatly missed.. i.e. Used Component Instantiation / Used Component Method Call / Message Manager / Assistant Class text retrieval etc etc... Is there any way to incorporate in CTRL-SPACE ?
- Yes, we have delivered only Context code templates, where as general code templates which can be done via SAP GUI is not provided as a block of code generation but user can use content assist (CTRL-SPACE) as a partial work around.

Regards,

Arun.

Message was edited by: Yael Tal

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

wiljer05 — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 05:49:46 GMT

Good Day,

Please see attached file with detail as requested. Please open the XML file in Microsoft Word.

Whilst Generating this detail, I have come across yet another issue...

Open 2 Views
Maintain a element on the first e.g. Label Text
Without saving navigate to the second view
- Close the first view whilst in the second view
- You will be prompted that the view was changed, Save Changes
- Save the changes
- Open the view again where the changes were just saved, All the changes are lost !!

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

arunkumar_s3 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 05:49:15 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

We are looking into these issues we will get back to you in few weeks.

Also few of the issues mentioned looks specific to your system, we need to have access to your system setup.

Please create one incident in the OSS system for the below issue :

"The format function (CTRL-SHIFT-F) on the component controller breaks the component controller also."

We will contact you further via this incident.

Regards,

Arun.

Re: Issues with Webdynpro Development (in Eclipse)

wiljer05 — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:39:21 GMT

Hi Arun,

We have created a incident as requested. 326244 / 2016

Thanks in advance,

Jeremy.