The ABAP RESTful Programming Model in

SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment and SAP S/4HANA

Carine Tchoutouo Djomo, SAP
February 25, 2020

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Agenda

Overview

Business Objects

Business Services

Demo

Outlook & Summary

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Overview
Evolution of the ABAP programming model
SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment /
ABAP Platform ≤ 7.5 ABAP Platform ≥ 7.5
SAP S/4HANA ≥ 1909

CLASSIC ABAP PROGRAMMING MODEL ABAP RESTful

ABAP PROGRAMMING FOR SAP FIORI PROGRAMMING MODEL1

Floorplan Manager / WDA, SEGW / @OData

Business Service
BSP, Dynpro,… Referenced Data Source

Best practice freestyle Core Data CDS-based Core Data Behavior Definition
ABAP programming Services (CDS) BOPF Services & Implementation

Current best practice in SAP S/4HANA Future direction

Dos and Don’ts
for greenfield implementations for greenfield2 and brownfield implementations
Be prepared for the new
Getting Started Getting Started
programming models
Documentation Documentation

Safe investments! Integration path planned

1 aka ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

2 Greenfield implementations not yet supported on SAP S/4HANA 5
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ABAP RESTful Programming Model – Support for ABAP developers

The ABAP RESTful PROGRAMMING MODEL

is a framework of …

SAP Fiori UI services

OData service
CONCEPTS development
Web APIs

TECHNOLOGIES
Extensions
Universally usable
programming model
TOOLS New developments

BEST PRACTISES
SAP S/4HANA®
Available on premise
and in the cloud SAP Cloud Platform,
ABAP environment
… for the efficient development of
ENTERPRISE GRADE APPLICATIONS

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ABAP RESTful Programming Model – The key players

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse for all development tasks

Easy developer onboarding
End-to-end development flow

Languages: ABAP and CDS

Standard implementation tasks via typed APIs supporting
static code checks, auto-completion, element info

Powerful frameworks
Take over technical implementation tasks
Business logic added in code exits on protocol agnostic layers

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ABAP RESTful Programming Model – The big picture
SERVICE SAP Fiori UI Web API
CONSUMPTION Consume OData UI services Consume OData Web APIs

SERVICE BINDING – Bind to protocol version and scenario

SERVICE DEFINITION – Define scope to be exposed

BUSINESS
SERVICES
BUSINESS OBJECT PROJECTION
PROVISIONING
CDS: Projection views

BDEF: Behavior projection

ABAP: Behavior implementation*

BUSINESS OBJECTS QUERIES

DATA MODELING CDS: Data modeling CDS: Data modeling
& BEHAVIOR
BDEF: Behavior definition

ABAP: Behavior implementation

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Business Objects
What is a business object?

Behaviour
CRUD, Actions, Functions
Locks, eTag
Authorizations, Feature Control
Data Model Draft

R
2

COMPOSITION 1 3
TREE Runtime Implementation
(root, parent and child nodes)
INTERACTION PHASE

TX buffer

SAVE SEQUENCE

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Business objects – BO runtime implementation types

REUSE EXISTING CODE ➔ UNMANAGED

For brownfield developments with available application code for
SAVE interaction phase, transactional buffer and save sequence.
INTERACTION
SEQUENCE
PHASE
➔ Developers in charge of BO runtime: CRUD operations

Read, modify,
Validate, ➔ Adapters needed to integrate the existing code
adjust, save,
lock
clean up

START FROM SCRATCH ➔ MANAGED*

Transactional For greenfield developments with standard implementation.
buffer (opt. unmanaged appl. components: DB tables, lock/PFCG object, update task FM)
SAP HANA ➔ Standard CRUD operations works out-of-the-box
➔ Developers add BO specific business logic

BUSINESS OBJECT (BO) RUNTIME

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ABAP RESTful Programming Model – Development flow

AUNIT
Scenario & integration test

AUNIT
Unit test

ADD IMPLEMENT
BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR
Authority object CDS role
QUERY
DATA ACCESS CDS BASED CDS BEHAVIOR
CONTROL DATA MODEL DEFINITION ABAP CODE

AUTHORITY-CHECK

Lock object
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Business Services
What is a business service

Web API Lifecycle

Service Binding
Release
Protocol: OData V2 or OData V4?
Versioning
Scenario: Web API or UI?
Deprecation

2
3
1 Tool support
UI: SAP Fiori Elements preview
4 Web API: Swagger UI preview

Service Definition: which entities? R

BO Projection View: which elements?

Behavior Projection: which behavior?

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ABAP RESTful Programming Model – Development flow
DEFINE ROLES
Role
SERVICE
BINDING PREVIEW

BIND to SCENARIO and PROTOCOL

SERVICE
AUNIT DEFINITION
Scenario & integration test
DEFINE SCOPE

ADD
BEHAVIOR
AUNIT
Unit test
DATA MODEL BEHAVIOR
PROJECTION PROJECTION

PROJECT ELEMENTS & ENRICH PROJECT BEHAVIOR

ADD IMPLEMENT
BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR
Authority object CDS role
QUERY
DATA ACCESS CDS BASED CDS BEHAVIOR
CONTROL DATA MODEL DEFINITION ABAP CODE

AUTHORITY-CHECK

Lock object
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Demo
Building a SAP Fiori elements UI service with the managed BO runtime implementation
Modern ABAP development in Eclipse

ABAP DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (ADT)

MODERN DEVELOPMENT TOOLSET
Fully eclipse-based
Syntax check, Code completion
Syntax highlighting, Pretty printing
Navigation, Search, Quick Fixes

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Static code checks (CVA, ATC) with

remote and local scenarios
Unit testing incl. isolation frameworks
Test seams and injections

SUPPORTABILITY

Debugging, profiling
Static and dynamic logging
Runtime monitoring and analysis

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Outlook & Summary
Outlook – Next steps planned*

Goals
2020
SAP CLOUD PLATFORM
ABAP ENVIRONMENT
SAP S/4HANA

Enhanced managed scenario Managed scenario for supporting greenfield

(e.g. early numbering based development with draft support and early
on UUIDs, draft support) numbering based on UUIDs

Markdown editor for documentation Enhanced unmanaged scenario

of behavior definitions
OData V4 support
OData V4 support

Read more in the ABAP Platform Road Map

* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

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Summary – Key takeaways

The ABAP RESTful Programming Model is available starting with SAP Cloud Platform
01 ABAP Environment 1808: Cloud-first delivery.

The ABAP RESTful Programming Model is available on-premise starting with

01 SAP S/4HANA 1909 – with reduced feature scope: UNMANAGED BO IMPLEMENTATION.

The feature scope of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model is enhanced on a quarterly
02 basis in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment and on-premise on a yearly basis in
SAP S/4HANA.

The ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori WITH DRAFT SUPPORT is available as of
03 AS ABAP 7.51 and remains the current best practice for greenfield implementations in
SAP S/4HANA.

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 With the

ABAP RESTful
Programming Model
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Further information

► Getting Started with the ABAP RESTful Programming Model

► Get started with ABAP Core Data Services (CDS)

► Evolution about the ABAP Programming Model

► Be prepared for the new ABAP Programming Models

► ABAP Development Community

► SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment

► SAP Developer Center

► SAP TechEd Online (e.g. session CAA103, CAA100 and CAA101)

► SAP Training & Certifications Opportunities

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Thank you.
Contact Information:
Carine Tchoutouo Djomo
Product Manager for ABAP Platform
SAP SE
carine.tchoutouo.djomo@sap.com