ABAPCodeRetreat 23.7.2016 - Abap in Eclipse

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ABAP CODERETREAT WEINSBERGABAP in Eclipse

KIS, Weinsberg, 23.07.2016

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© Kaufland 2016 |

WHO WE ARE

KAUFLAND

We are more than just a successful international trading company:We are a company where many colleagues become a team, jobsare safe workplaces and real satisfaction

Diversity and stability

We offer a wide range of jobs with many different entry-levels andcareer opportunities. Our company is continuously growing, thatmakes us self-confident

Openness and friendly cooperation

We support a cooperation based on friendliness and mutual trust


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WHERE WE ARE

KAUFLAND

Expansive growth, economic size

• We are successfully expanding in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria

• Over 150,500 employees form our strong Kaufland team in Europe

International cooperation and prospects

• We offer an international work environment

• We provide a wide variety of tasks in collaboration with ourinternational colleagues

• According to the area of deployment you will have theopportunity to collect experience abroad, in one of ourEuropean locations


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KAUFLAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

We are the IT service provider for Kaufland. Ensuring high business performance and carrying data streams on the right trackis our daily responsibility

Keep IT simple and safe

Our objectives are to comprehensively advice our businessdepartments in designing their business processes and toimplement software solutions

OUR IT IN FIGURES

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220 SAP Systems

40SAP Developers

25k Z Reports

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• Eclipse started as a proprietary IBM product (IBM Visual age for Smalltalk/Java)

• Embracing the open source model IBM opened the product up

• Open Source

• It is a general purpose open platform that facilitates and encourages the development of third party plug-ins

• Best known as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• Provides tools for coding, building, running and debugging applications

• Originally designed for Java, now supports many other languages

• Good support for C, C++

• Python, PHP, Ruby, etc...

• And ABAP

• Eclipse is the strategic future ABAP Development Tool from SAP

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WHAT IS ECLIPSE?

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ECLIPSE IDE COMPONENTS

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Perspective SwitchWe can switch between

several perspectives here

Editor ViewThis is where we edit

our source code

MenubarsFull drop down menusplus quick access tocommon functions

Project Explorer View

This is where our projects/ objects are listed

Windows (Views)The windows (views) are not firmly set but can be arranged however you prefer on the screen !


CREATING A NEW PROJECT

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• All code in Eclipse needs to live under a project• To create a project: File -> New -> ABAP Project• A new System Connection window will open, choose the SAP system in which you want to develop ABAP Objects

Hit NEXT button to enter SAP system credentials

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CREATING A NEW PROJECT

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• click FINISH to create ABAP Project

Enter SAP system credentials


CREATING A CLASS

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We are saving the class as a $TMP packageso a transport request is not required

To create a new global class , choose any package under the ABAP project.Right click on the package -> NEW -> ABAP Class


CREATING A METHOD

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Write the definition of method -> Ctrl +1 on the method name


CREATING A PROGRAM

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To create a ABAP program, choose any package under the ABAP project.Right click on the package -> NEW -> ABAP program

We are saving the program as a $TMP packageso a transport request is not required


RUNNING CODE

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An easy way to run code is to right click on the program and selectRun As -> ABAP Application (F8)


RUNNING CODE

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The output of running code can be seen in a new SAP GUI editor window


RUNNING CODE

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Running a single method -> mark a method and F8


RUNNING CODE

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Enter the Import Parameters and execute the method


RE-RUNNING CODE

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After you run the code for the first time, you can re-run it just by selecting it from the RUN drop down menu


DEBUGGING CODE

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• Eclipse comes with a pretty good built-in debugger• You can set break points in your code by double clicking in the left hand margin

break points arerepresented by

these blue bubbles


DEBUGGING CODE

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• The first time you try to debug code you will be presented with the following dialog

• Eclipse is asking if you want to switch to a perspective that is more suited for debugging, click yes

• Eclipse has many perspectives based on what you are doing (by default we get the ABAP perspective)


DEBUG PERSPECTIVE

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This view shows the current line of code

we broke on

It‘s possibe to change the code during the

debugging !

List of breakpoints

These buttons allow you to step through the code

Variables in scope are listed here along with their current values – by right clicking you

can change values of variables as your program is running

Note new Debugperspective – clickABAP to return to

normal


CONTENT ASSIST

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Content assist is a functionality in Eclipse which allows the developer to get context-sensitive code completion in an editor upon user request.

It can be invoked by pressing Ctrl+Space.

...


QUICK FIX

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Quick Fix can be used to make typing much faster and to quickly generate code ...

press Ctrl+1 on class

Press Ctrl+1 on method

Press Ctrl+1 on parameter

Press Ctrl+1 on variable


REFACTORING

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Renaming a class / method that is used widely throughout a project could take a lot of time and is error-prone. But the Eclipserefactoring wizard makes the job easier by automatically detecting all dependencies on the class / method beeing renamed andmodifying them also in the same time.

The refactoring menu can be opened by Ctrl+1

click Finish to perform the refactoring


REFACTORING

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Result of renaming class ZCL_ACR_01 -> ZCL_ACR_02


REFACTORING

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Refactoring a method (Ctrl+1)

Refactoring a field (Ctrl+1)

Refactoring a parameter of a method (Ctrl+1) ... and so on


REFACTORING

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Rename in source unit (Ctrl+1)

... while renaming the field thedependencies in the sourcecode will be automatically

changed


HISTORY

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Right click on source code – Compare With – Local History / Revision History…

Revision History Local History


HISTORY

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Mark 2 versions and right click – Compare with Each Other

A new editor window opens with thecomparison of both versions.

This compare works also between projects(SAP systems).


ABAP ELEMENT INFO

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Press F2 on any element ...


ABAP DOC

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• With ABAP Doc you can write yourdocumentation directly within yoursource code using special commentsin front of a declarative statement

• This means you can document globallyavailable elements (like classes, interfaces and their method andattribute) but also local elements (like local variables and field-symbols)


ABAP KEYWORDS COLORS

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Click Windows -> Preferences ...


TRANSPORT ORGANIZER

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With the transport organizer you can edit transports (Release, Change Owner)


SHORT CUTS

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Hit Ctrl + Shift + L to open the Short cut list

Hit Ctrl + Shift + L again to edit or create Short cuts


SHORT CUTS

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F2 Code Information Ctrl + L Goto LineF3 Navigate to Ctrl + M Maximize Active View or EditorF5 Refresh Ctrl + O Quic OutlineAlt + U Delete unused variables (all) Ctrl + Q Last Edit LocationAlt + F2 Show method Information Ctrl + T Quick Type HierarchieAlt + F8 Run an ABAP development object Ctrl + U Display ModeAlt + PfeilOben Moves Lines Up Shift + F1 Pretty PrinterAlt + Shift + A Toggle Block Selection Ctrl + F3 ActivateAlt + Shift + B Show In Breadcrumb Ctrl + F6 Easily switch between the editor tabs (Like Tab for Windows) !!Alt + Shift + M Extract Method › Define Method Signature Ctrl + F7 Easily switch between all eclipse viewsAlt + Shift + W Show in ... Ctrl + F8 Easily switch between the perspectivesAlt + Shift + Q Show View Ctrl + Alt + H Open Call HierarchyCtrl + 1 Quick Fix Ctrl + Alt + S, S Splitscreen vertikalCtrl + 2 + R Rename Ctrl + Alt + S, F Splitscreen zurücknehmenCtrl + 3 Quick Access Ctrl + Shift + A Open Development ObjectCtrl + D Delete Line Ctrl + Shift + E Switch to EditorCtrl + E Quick Switch Editor Ctrl + Shift + G ABAP Where-used ListCtrl + F Find / Replace Ctrl + Shift + N New (ABAP Repository Object)Ctrl + H Open File Search Ctrl + Shift + F2 Run ABAP Test Cockpit

Software

ABAPCodeRetreat 23.7.2016 - Abap in Eclipse