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JerryWang
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ABAP Mesh is also a new feature in 740. Let's use an example to demonstrate how it works:


I have defined two types for developers and managers. developer type has a field manager which points to his manager, while manager type does not have any reference to his managing employee.




types: begin of t_manager,
name type char10,
salary type int4,
end of t_manager,
tt_manager type sorted table of t_manager with unique key name.
types: begin of t_developer,
name type char10,
salary type int4,
manager TYPE char10,
end of t_developer,
tt_developer type sorted table of t_developer with unique key name.​



I also use the new grammar - inline data declaration to fill developer and manager table. So far nothing special.



DATA: lt_developer TYPE tt_developer,
lt_manager TYPE tt_manager.

DATA(Jerry) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'Jerry' salary = 1000 manager = 'Jason' ).

DATA(Tom) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'Tom' salary = 2000 manager = 'Jason' ).

DATA(Bob) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'Bob' salary = 2100 manager = 'Jason' ).

DATA(Jack) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'Jack' salary = 1000 manager = 'Thomas' ).

DATA(David) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'David' salary = 2000 manager = 'Thomas' ).

DATA(John) = VALUE t_developer( name = 'John' salary = 2100 manager = 'Thomas' ).

DATA(Jason) = VALUE t_manager( name = 'Jason' salary = 3000 ).

DATA(Thomas) = VALUE t_manager( name = 'Thomas' salary = 3200 ).

INSERT Jerry INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT Tom INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT Bob INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT Jack INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT David INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT John INTO TABLE lt_developer.

INSERT Jason INTO TABLE lt_manager.

INSERT Thomas INTO TABLE lt_manager.


Now I define one ABAP mesh t_team with two component managers and developers. With association 'my_employee', I connect the internal table managers to developers, so that I could easily find all developers of a given manager. The association 'my_manager' just enables the connection in opposite direction: find out the manager of a given developer.



 


You can compare how I find Jerry's manager and find all developers whose manager are Thomas using new ABAP mesh and the traditional way.



The result are exactly the same.


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