Question Re: ABAP for Cloud Development & Package interfaces in Technology Q&A

ABAP for Cloud Development & Package interfaces

clemrngt — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:59:53 GMT

Hello all,

I have recently tried to move from standard development to abap for cloud development in a BADI implementation.

I was looking for a released API to work with Calendar, and folowing this SAP BLOG, I have found method CL_SCAL_UTILS.

But looking to the package,

And package interface of this package

I can see that it doesn't exists a package interface for this package and so, the class is not in any package interface.

Does this mean the class cannot be used outside of this package, and so cannot be used in my custom package (even if the class api state is released ) ?

Thx in advance

Re: ABAP for Cloud Development & Package interfaces

ThFiedler — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:00:50 GMT

Hi Clement,

released APIs and package interfaces are two different concepts. So you can and should use released APIs in your developments to be ABAP cloud compliant. We are currently working on a better alignment of both concepts.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: ABAP for Cloud Development & Package interfaces

Robert_Schulte — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:58:43 GMT

Hello Thomas / @ThFiedler,

is there any news regarding this topic? Do i understand correctly that "making objects available" is only possible for all or nothing outside current package, as C1 is "system internally" and there is nothing more fine granular?

Best regards

Robert