Proxy inbound message INPUT

[Former Member]

Hello.

i am new with ABAP proxy and only have some theoretical knowledge about ABAP object oriented programmering so:

i have been told to inplement code in a method of a generated proxy class to deal with material data sent to SAP from an external agent. i know what i have to do with the data, i mean, i am gonna update material master using a BAPI and i know that the data is in the INPUT parameter of the method, i can see the method where i have to write code, and i can see the structure of that INPUT and identify the fields i need, but, how can i reference the parameter in the method, its fields, how do i read that data?? surely is a very stupid cuestion once one knows about proxy and methods and so but by know...

Thanks a lot for any help.

Edited by: Javier Casillas on Feb 7, 2008 6:38 PM

[matt]

If an input parameter is call i_data and has structure struc, then i_data is available in your method as a variable with structure struc.

It's there. You use it. It's defined for you.

Or does the difficulty lie elsewhere?

matt

[Former Member]

The input and output parameters are structures

you can refer it just like a workarea

Data: vl_matnr type mara-matnr.

*Reading
vl_matnr = input-matnr.

*Writing
output-matnr = vl_matnr.

if your mapping on XI have a deep structure, the workarea of input and output parameters will have the same deep

vl_matnr = input-material-matnr.

input-material-matnr = vl_matnr

Darley

[Former Member]

First of all, thank you Matthew and Darley.

what i was asking is what Darley explains. I understand that the question was actualy too silly or obvious maybe, but it is clear that i havent understand yet how this classes work. So now i have an idea of how to "see" a field of the input structure. but i am not still able to "loop" at data, the materials, and take out the information. i receive this collection of materials from XI:

<ARTICLE_INFO VERSION="1.0">

- <DEF_ARTICLE ID="1002423" ACTION="SYNC">

<MCLASS>533000</MCLASS>

<MSORT>473760</MSORT>

<REGLANG>SWE</REGLANG>

<NAME LANG="SWE">KUGGKRANS</NAME>

<STD_MANUF_FLAG>M</STD_MANUF_FLAG>

<MANUF>KUPPLUNGSTECHNIK</MANUF>

<REF LANG="SWE">ROTEX 42-55</REF>

<SUPPLEMENT LANG="SWE">92 SHORE GUL</SUPPLEMENT>

</DEF_ARTICLE>

- <DEF_ARTICLE ID="1002818" ACTION="SYNC">

<MCLASS>641000</MCLASS>

<MSORT>230416</MSORT>

<REGLANG>SWE</REGLANG>

<NAME LANG="SWE">TONERKASSETT</NAME>

<STD_MANUF_FLAG>M</STD_MANUF_FLAG>

<MANUF>HEWLETT-PACKARD</MANUF>

<REF LANG="SWE">Q6470A</REF>

<SUPPLEMENT LANG="SWE">SVART CLJ 3600/3800</SUPPLEMENT>

And this is the same structure i see in the INPUT parameter of the method. So imagine that i want to pick every material number i receive and take some data from then. to loop through the materials i thought i could do something like:

loop at input-article_info-def_article.

w_matnr = input-article_info-def_article-ID.

w_spras = input-article_info-name-lang.

w_matkx = input-article_info-name.

endloop.

But first, in OO i have to do de loop with a "INTO" or "ASSING" addition. i tried to do:

data: wa_def_article like ZMI_SKC_ARTICLES_DEF_ARTICLE.

(this is the line type of the proxy type for def_article)

and then: LOOP AT input-article_info-def_article INTO wa_def_article.

but it doesnt work becouse the right side of the input must be a "flat structure". what does it mean?

and then, i am not sure either if the way i am assigning the material number or the language, for example, are correct.

i guess i am doing it much more confussing that it really is because my ignorance of ABAP classes and proxy.

but thank you for your time and help!

Javier

Edited by: Javier Casillas on Feb 8, 2008 1:29 PM

[matt]

I'd guess that you've not actually defined wa_def_article. It's difficult to tell without knowing the definition of ZMI_SKC_ARTICLES_DEF_ARTICLE.

Try:

DATA: wa_def_article LIKE LINE OF input-article_info-def_article. 
LOOP AT input-article_info-def_article INTO wa_def_article.

matt