RTTS - Dynamic Structure/Type Generation

[Former Member]

Hi,

my apologies if this question has been asked before and in the wrong forum.

Is it possible to dynamically create a structure/type of variable length without using a fixed type? e.g. I want to create a structure with 4 'fixed' fields followed by a number of variable entries dependent upon an external source. I would normally do something like ..

types : begin of ty_data,

matnr type matnr,

werks type werks,

lifnr type lifnr,

menge_01 type menge_d,

menge_02 type menge_d,

.

.

.

end of ty_data.

data : it_data type sorted table of ty_data with unique key ...

I want to define he whole structure dynamically at runtime.

Could someone point me to a blog/bar/exit or better still give me an answer?

Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Hi,

my apologies if this question has been asked before and in the wrong forum.

Is it possible to dynamically create a structure/type of variable length without using a fixed type? e.g. I want to create a structure with 4 'fixed' fields followed by a number of variable entries dependent upon an external source. I would normally do something like ..

types : begin of ty_data,

matnr type matnr,

werks type werks,

lifnr type lifnr,

menge_01 type menge_d,

menge_02 type menge_d,

.

.

.

end of ty_data.

data : it_data type sorted table of ty_data with unique key ...

I want to define he whole structure dynamically at runtime.

Could someone point me to a blog/bar/exit or better still give me an answer?

Thanks in advance

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Terry

Of course you can create all kinds of structures / table types dynamically, e.g.:

[Creating Flat and Complex Internal Tables Dynamically using RTTI|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/CreatingFlatandComplexInternalTablesDynamicallyusingRTTI]

Your external source must provide you with the meta-data about the structure. This you can use as input for RTTI in order to create your dynamic data objects.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

Hi Uwe,

you are a scholar and a gentleman sir, I knew there must be a way.

Thanks Again

Terry