topic Re: BAPI in Application Development and Automation Discussions

BAPI

Former Member — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:18:55 GMT

Hi all,

I have a doubt regarding BAPI.. Can't we use Exceptions to throw error in BAPI like normal function modules?

Thanks

Kelly

Re: BAPI

RichHeilman — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:26 GMT

BAPIs usually handle exceptions thru the RETURN parameter usually found under the EXPORTING or TABLES parameters.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: BAPI

Former Member — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:39:51 GMT

By design, BAPIs are supposed to be used by external application that may or may not be able to handle exceptions raised in the calls. That is the reason why all the errors are collected into the messages table and then the calling application can decide how to handle the errors based on its capabilities and limitations.

Hope this helps,

Srinivas

Re: BAPI

Former Member — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:05:48 GMT

Hello Kelly,

I'm sure that you know exceptions are a way of handling errors. This <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_webas620/helpdata/en/a5/3ec9f74ac011d1894e0000e829fbbd/content.htm">link</a> in the SAP Documentation explains the Error Handling mechanism for the BAPIs.

I hope you will be able to see why you should not have exceptions in the BAPI interface.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.

Re: BAPI

Former Member — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:32:18 GMT

Hi All,

Thanks to everybody .. And that link was a great help...

Thanks again...

Kelly