GET DATA AND TIME CREATION FROM LOCAL FILE

[Former Member]

Good morning,

I need to get data and time property from a local file on windows.

I tried with CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>FILE_GET_ATTRIBUTES but it doesn't return this information.

I hope there is a method-function that retrive these informations and I don't need to create a .bat file with dir command inside!

Thanks you.

Marco

[SuhaSaha]

AFAIK SAP doesn't provide any standard methods / FMs to address this

[Former Member]

Incredible!

[Sandra_Rossi]

at least, if you know that only one OS is used (but you can also determine it dynamically), you can execute directly the OS command (DIR for windows) with CL_ABAP_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>EXECUTE. As DIR is not available as an executable, we can execute it using application "cmd" and parameter "/c dir path/file >resultfile" and minimized=X and synchronous=X, then read the result file. Not clean, but works.

[SuhaSaha]

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> you can execute directly the OS command (DIR for windows).

Hi Sandra,

Your solution rang a bell. Why can't we create an external command & call it using SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE or SXPG_CALL_SYSTEM ? Any comments on this ??

Should be a clean solution though

BR,

Suhas

[Sandra_Rossi]

there's a big difference: the question is about the presentation server, while SXPG*/SM69 are for the application server

[SuhaSaha]

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> there's a big difference: the question is about the presentation server, while SXPG*/SM69 are for the application server 

Oopsie !!!

Moral of this blunder: Don't post ur (in this case mine) opinions on weekends ...

[Sandra_Rossi]

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> with CL_ABAP_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>EXECUTE

Little correction: of course, it was CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>EXECUTE