This 3-day workshop on object-oriented ABAP in Hyderabad, India in February 2006 will cover object-oriented concepts like classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and interfaces. The course will teach how to define classes and their components like attributes and methods in ABAP. It will also cover object-oriented features in ABAP like inheritance, polymorphism, and using events.
2. Workshop Goals This workshop will enable you to: Learn object oriented concepts. Learn the principle of object - oriented programming. Learn the application of object - oriented ABAP.
3. Course Contents Object Oriented Concepts Object Oriented Programming. Advantages of the Object-Oriented Approach Methods Syntax and Visibility Instance Methods and Static Methods Constructor Reference Variables Creating References Assigning References Classes Components of a Class Attributes Syntax and Visibility Instance Attributes and Static Attributes
4. Course Contents Inheritance Super classes and Subclasses Visibility Inheritance and the (Instance) Constructor Parameters Redefining Methods in OOABAP Compatibility Principles of the Narrowing Cast Static and Dynamic Components Final Classes and Methods
5. Course Contents Polymorphism Advantages Compared to Procedural Programming Abstract Classes and Methods Component Namespaces in Classes Interfaces Defining and Implementing an Interface Working with Interface Components Interface References Narrowing Cast Widening Cast Using Several Interfaces Polymorphism and Interfaces Polymorphism and Inheritance Compound Interfaces
6. Course Contents Events Define and Trigger Events Handle Events Register and deregister Events Receive a reference from Sender
10. Classes are the central element of object-orientation. A Class is an abstract description of an object. Classes are templates for objects. The attributes of objects are defined by the components of the class, which describe the state and behavior of objects. Classes
11. You define global classes and interfaces in the Class Builder (Transaction SE24) in the ABAP Workbench. They are stored centrally in class pools in the class library in the R/3 Repository. All of the ABAP programs in an R/3 System can access the global classes. Classes
13. Defining Local Classes A complete class definition consists of a declaration part and, if required, an implementation part. The declaration part of a class <class> is a statement block: CLASS c1 DEFINITION. . ENDCLASS. If you declare methods in the declaration part of a class, you must also write an implementation part for it. CLASS c1 IMPLEMENTATION. . ENDCLASS. Classes
32. Inheritance allows you to derive a new class from an existing class. You do this using the INHERITING FROM addition in the CLASS <subclass> DEFINITION INHERITING FROM <superclass> statement. The new class <subclass> inherits all of the components of the existing class <superclass>. The new class is called the subclass of the class from which it is derived. The original class is called the superclass of the new class. Inheritance
54. The assignment of an object reference to an interface reference is known as a narrowing cast since, as with inheritance, only a part of the object interface is visible once you have assigned the reference. With an interface reference, you can no longer address all components in the class carrying out the implementation, but only the components defined in the interface. Interface
56. The widening cast is, as with inheritance, the opposite of the narrowing cast: here it is used to retrieve an object reference from an interface reference. Obviously it cannot be statically checked, since an interface can be implemented by more than one class. An object reference cannot be assigned to an interface reference if it has itself not implemented the corresponding interface. Interface
57. In the above example, one class is implementing several interfaces. Even if these interfaces contain components with the same name, they are differentiated in the class carrying out the implementation by the prefix <interfacename>~. Using several Interface
59. Objects or Classes use events to trigger Event Handler methods in other objects or classes. When an event is triggered any number of Event Handler Methods can be called. The events of a class can be raised in the same class using the RAISE EVENT Statement. Events have only output parameters which are accepted by the Event Handler Methods as input parameters. The link between the trigger and the handler is established dynamically at runtime using the statement SET HANDLER . Events