XML data file upload

[Former Member]

How can I upload XML data file to SAP? I cannot use class method import_from_file of class cl_xml_document

because I want to run the program in background and with this Method it only run in foreground

[Former Member]

Hello,

Use the below FM's:

/SMB/SC_UL_XML_DOC

/XFT/DIO_DEMO_CP_XML_2_STR

/AIN/IF_XML_TO_C255

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

GReetson

[Former Member]

Where can I look at these FM's?

[Sandra_Rossi]

Just read the file (READ DATASET, see forums), put content into a string variable named your_string and do:

DATA lo_xml TYPE REF TO cl_xml_document_base.
CREATE OBJECT lo_xml.
lo_xml->parse_string( stream = your_string ).

[Former Member]

How can I use READ DATASET with the upload?

[Sandra_Rossi]

it's an elementary abap statement, read the doc, or read forum if you don't understand

[Former Member]

The problem is not that I want to read the xml data file into a string, the problem is that I can't use any upload method to upload the data file in background, this is want I want to solve, when I run the program in the foreground everything works with my method but not in the background, for this I get a dump.

[Former Member]

You want to upload a file from your desktop in background ?

IT'S NOT POSSIBLE !

See forum on this, it's very well known and discussed.

oops bad oss user used, sorry!

I am sandra rossi

Edited by: Sandra Rossi on Jan 14, 2009 1:57 PM

[Former Member]

Yes I know this, but is there no method or something else where I can upload something from the server in background?

[Sandra_Rossi]

Could you show the dump?

Could you show your method?

Otherwise use READ DATASET to read the file, why don't you want?

[Former Member]

currently I use following methods tu opload and to transfor the xml into a string.

* Method to create XML from data file

  CALL METHOD instance->import_from_file
    EXPORTING
      filename = gf_filename
    RECEIVING
      retcode  = ch_retcode.

* Convert into XML-Stream

  CALL METHOD instance->render_2_string
*  EXPORTING
*    pretty_print = 'X'
    IMPORTING
    retcode      = ch_retcode
      stream       = lf_string .
*    size         = .

When I use read dataset the output of the xml is into an internal table where I have many lines depending on the XML data file, this means if my xml has 10lines the internal table of read dataset has also 10 lines but I need a string to make the transformation of the xml.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Do it this way so that "all_lines" is a string that contains the whole file (if you had SEARCHED THE FORUM you would have found it yourself):

DATA line TYPE string.
DATA all_lines TYPE string.
OPEN DATASET ... IN TEXT MODE ...
DO
  READ DATASET ... INTO line.
  IF sy-subrc <> 0. EXIT. ENDIF.
  CONCATENATE all_lines line INTO all_lines.
ENDDO.

and then use :

DATA lo_xml TYPE REF TO cl_xml_document_base.
CREATE OBJECT lo_xml.
lo_xml->parse_string( stream = all_lines ).

Edited by: Sandra Rossi on Jan 14, 2009 2:54 PM