topic Re: Abap Development Tools API documentation in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Abap Development Tools API documentation

former_member666392 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:25:44 GMT

Hi,

I've seen a wonderful blog post from Marcello Urbani where he implemented a plugin for VS Code to edit ABAP code. I'd love to go in his footsteps and work on implementing a similar plugin for Neovim, however, for the life of me, I can't find any documentation on ABAP Development Tools API.

Is there even such a thing or the only way is reverse engineering it like Jerry Wang did in his blog post?

Best Regards,
Mantas

Re: Abap Development Tools API documentation

ThFiedler — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:53:06 GMT

Hi Mantas,

the only official API incl. documentation is the Java SDK for building Eclipse tools. The underlying REST APIs are not documented. The easiest way to find the appropriate REST APIs is to use the ADT Communication log.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: Abap Development Tools API documentation

martinc_mb38 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:21 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Are the APIs not documented at all? Or is the documentation only available internally?

I am sure some kind of documentation for the API must exist (anyway maybe in the 4 years since this post of yours?). And if it is internal, what prevents SAP from making it available publicly so that the development community can use it to build tools based on it?

(We do not need official support for it, you know 😉 If you release it without warranty, that is also fine!)

Kind Regards,

Martin