CORRESPONDING

[andrs_sarcevic]

Hello all,

I'm working on NW7.5.

As I understand from the documentation, the new CORRESPONDING statement works based on components or fields.

I have a BAPI returning values in a table as a character-like sequence:

IT-VALUEPART1(240)

IT-VALUEPART2(240)

IT-VALUEPART3(240)

IT-VALUEPART4(240)

If the first 240 characters for VALUEPART1 are filled, keeps ongoing with VALUEPART2 and so on. It can even fill up all of them and start over the process by adding a new line to the table.

The information needs to be moved to a proper field structure. The way I would approach this is by looping through the components of the target structure and matching the relevant character portions.

Is there any way the new CORRESPONDING or CL_ABAP_CORRESPONDING can help me here?

Kind regards,

Andres.

[ThomasKruegl]

I am not sure what exactly is the content of the valuepart fields, can you give an example?

I assume something in there like: 'field1 = value1, field2 = value2', and you have a target structure with fields field1 and field 2, and want to store value1 and value 2 in there?

If this is the case, i don't think CORRESPONDING can help. In all its forms, it just compares field names, never the stored values.

regards,

Thomas

[andrs_sarcevic]

Hi Thomas, thanks for your response.

It would be:

field1 = valuepart1(2)

field2 = valuepart1+2(10)

field3 = valuepart1+10(1)

field4 = valuepart1+11(3)

So characters of VALUEPART# is broken down into the target structure with meaningful fields.

I don't think it can be solved by CORRESPONDING, but thought better ask outside...

Cheers,

Andres.

[nomssi]

Hello Andres,

I suggest to use the methods of class CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES to copy data from a BAPIPAREX structure to another structure.

JNN

[andrs_sarcevic]

Hi Jacques,

That was useful, although CL_ABAP_CONTAINER won't map the whole BAPIPAREX typed structure to the target structure with meaningful fields, as CL_ABAP_CONTAINER=>READ_CONTAINER_C( ) takes a String Sequence as parameter, not a structure of string sequences as BAPIPAREX is.

Kind regards,

Andres.

[RaymondGiuseppi]

if you use subfields no, but as all those are character fields you can use a simple offset like

    call method cl_abap_container_utilities=>read_container_c
      exporting
        im_container           = i_extension_out+30
      importing
        ex_value               = e_extend_structure
      exceptions
        illegal_parameter_type = 1
        others                 = 2.

No CORRESPONDING options were harmed in the sample.

Regards,

Raymond