Inbound ABAP Proxy class-Custom methods

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Is it a good practice to add custom methods to an auto generated inbound proxy class ?  Will the re-generation of proxy will cause any issues in these custom methods ?

Thanks

Sanu Sugathan

[Katan]

Hi Sanu,

In any kind of programming the use of methods to separate out your code logically and promote re-use is always a good thing.  It's a good thing and defintely something I have done before.

If it makes more sense that these methods belong to a global object and could be re-used then make a global class and refer to the logic from your proxy.

Re-generating the code has no impact to the code of any of the methods.  By this I mean that the code itself is never changed or deleted.  It only affects the interface (importing params for an inbound proxy).  So removing a field from an interface will affect any code that directly makes reference to it in the proxy class. 

You should probably try it and see.  It's a simple to test and will give you more confidence in making changes.

Cheers,

Katan