topic Re: Cloning persistent objects in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Cloning persistent objects

peter_norris — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:56:19 GMT

Does anyone know if ABAP Persistent Objects support cloning?

I can clone the object using a SYSTEM-CALL (though I'd rather not), however that would still mean breaking the rules to set the object key to a new value.

At the moment the only solution appears to be creating a new persistent or transient object via the agent and manually assigning the attributes.

Re: Cloning persistent objects

uwe_schieferstein — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:27:57 GMT

Hello Peter

Perhaps you will find the solution in the following thread

Regards

Uwe

Re: Cloning persistent objects

peter_norris — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:49:41 GMT

Thanks Uwe. I knew about the SYSTEM-CALL but in this case it does not help.

My problem is that the object key of a persistent object does not appear to be easily modified even from within the object. I want to clone the object and then modify the key to avoid insert collisions.

So far as I can see there is no simple way of modifying the business key of a persistent object.

For now I've implemented IF_OS_CLONE~CLONE in a public method of my persistent object, created a new persistent object and manually assigned the attributes. Unfortunately the code will have to be modified whenever a new attribute is added.