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methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:22:44 GMT

Does BAPI have any methods? Few askd me which method of BAPI did u use? I didnt get it what does it mean?

Re: methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:33:44 GMT

Hi Prasanth,

As far as I concerned we didnt have any methods in Bapi.But Bapi has methods likeobjnam.existencecheck,objnam.display.It might b the one they asked...

Re: methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:41:44 GMT

there are some methods

like get.list(),get.detail()

Re: methods of BAPI

p291102 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:45:36 GMT

Hi,

Go throughthis below link. U will get the idea about step by step procedure for

BAPI.

Thanks,

Sankar M

Re: methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:49:00 GMT

hi padma

I guess get.list() list.display() these r BAPI by themselves . Looking for methods of BAPI

Re: methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:51:12 GMT

Hi Prashanth,

According to me, a BAPI is the method in itself. When you view a standard BO from SWO1 transaction and view the methods, you will see many of them are implemented using BAPIs. The methods with a green light alongside implies that. Basically a BAPI is a function module which is RFC enabled and is used to implemented methods of business objects or can be called independently.

Hope this helps. Viewing SWO1 for e.g. BUS2012 will give u a good idea.

Regards,

Aditya

p.s. The person that asked u the question might have meant Business Object instead of BAPI

Message was edited by:

Aditya Laud

Re: methods of BAPI

Former Member — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:24:33 GMT

Hello Prashanth,

A BAPI is a method of a Business Object . And this methods most of the times wrap a function module under it. ( But its not necesary all the times )

Thats why it has become In normal usage that we call the function modules themselves as BAPIs ( which is not actualluy true ).

So to come to your question, you will decide the method(BAPI) to be used for meeting your requirements ( Like in Distribution Model ), and BAPI and method are not 2 different things.

Cheers

Kesari.