ABAP Cloud & ABAP RESTful Application

Programming Model (RAP)

Overview
ABAP Platform Product Management, SAP
May 2023

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Agenda

INTRODUCTION

BIG PICTURE

BUSINESS OBJECTS

BUSINESS SERVICES

SUMMARY

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INTRODUCTION
Clean core with the ABAP cloud development model

… is the ABAP development model to build cloud-ready business apps, services and extensions
… comes with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP S/4HANA
… works with public or private cloud, and even on-premise

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The evolution to ABAP Cloud

(Steampunk) (Embedded Steampunk)

2012 2015 2018 09/10.2022

ABAP Development ABAP supports Cloud-ready Cloud-ready

ABAP objects, Tools in Eclipse • SAP HANA ABAP extensions ABAP extensions
ABAP unit, (ADT) • SAP Fiori on SAP BTP on SAP S/4HANA
The internet, • Cloud
Internal tables w/o header line ;) ABAP RESTful Application
• Key user extensibility
Programming Model (RAP)
ABAP Cloud

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ABAP Cloud at a glance

BUSINESS UI SERVICES INTEGRATION SERVICES

Output Management, Jobs, SAP BTP Workflow, XCO,...

Git based code management with gCTS and abapGit

SERVICE OData and InA OData, Events, HTTP, RFC, SQL
for SAP FIORI and analytical clients for application and data integration

REUSE SERVICES AND LIBRARIES

EXPOSURE

Cloud-readiness, IAM3, BC4, extensibility,...

ADT5, BAS6, Key User & Monitoring Tools

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
BUILT-IN QUALITIES
DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODELS
CDS1 entity, RAP2 Business Object, CDS analytical provider

TOOLS
DOMAIN-SPECIFIC
IMPLEMENTATION
DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LOGIC
ABAP, CDS

BUSINESS INTEGRATION SERVICES

DATABASE SAP HANA SERVICE OData, SOAP, Events, HTTP,
SQL and SQLScript CONSUMPTION RFC for application integration

1 Core Data Services 3 Identity

Public & Access Management 5 ABAP Development Tools 6
2 ABAP RESTful application programming model 4 Business Configuration 6 Business Application Studio
 Availability of ABAP Cloud
ABAP CLOUD ABAP CLOUD
DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT
SAP
ON SAP S/4HANA ON SAP BTP
S/4HANA

public interfaces
(CLOUD)

remote API

public interfaces public interfaces

SAP S/4HANA CLOUD ABAP SAP BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM

ENVIRONMENT / ABAP PLATFORM ABAP ENVIRONMENT

ABAP CLOUD IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS

PRODUCT RELEASE ABAP CLOUD USAGE

SAP BTP ABAP Environment All Mandatory

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition ≥ 2208 (new customers) Mandatory

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition and

≥ 2022 Recommended *
SAP S/4HANA on-premise

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Evolution of the ABAP programming model

ABAP PLATFORM ≤ 7.5 ABAP PLATFORM ≥ 7.5 SAP BTP

ABAP ENVIRONMENT
SAP S/4HANA ≥ 1909

CLASSIC ABAP ABAP PROGRAMMING ABAP RESTful

PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR APPLICATION
SAP FIORI PROGRAMMING
MODEL (RAP)

Best practice freestyle ABAP CDS, CDS-based BOPF, CDS, Behavior Definition &
programming, (Web) Dynpro, SEGW / @OData annotation Implementation, Business
CDS1 with Referenced Data Source Services
1 starting with release 7.4 SPS05

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ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) at a glance
The centerpiece of ABAP Cloud for building transactional apps

UI services for SAP Fiori apps

RAP – FOR EFFICIENT ENTERPRISE
Web APIs
GRADE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Events

CONCEPTS SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

TOOLS
Greenfield development

FRAMEWORKS Brownfield development

LANGUAGES UNIVERSALLY USABLE PROGRAMMING MODEL

BEST PRACTISES SAP BTP ABAP Environment

SAP S/4HANA, cloud and on-premise editions

AVAILABLE IN THE CLOUD AND ON-PREM

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The key players

ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse for all development tasks

Easy developer onboarding
End-to-end development flow

Languages: ABAP and Core Data Services (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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 Efficient ABAP development in Eclipse©
HIGH DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY WITH THE
ABAP DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (ADT)
ON-PREMISE AND IN THE CLOUD
MODERN DEVELOPMENT TOOLSET
Fully eclipse-based
Syntax check, Code completion
Navigation, Search, Quick Fixes
Full support for the ABAP RESTful
Application Programming Model and CDS

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Static code checks (ATC, CVA) with

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

SUPPORTABILITY
Debugging, profiling, tracing
Static and dynamic logging
Runtime monitoring and analysis

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Next generation data modeling and access with ABAP CDS – Example
View annotations

View definition Data source

Associations

Element annotations

Selection

ABAP Flight Reference Scenario -

Example available in package /DMO/FLIGHT_DRAFT

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 Entity Manipulation Language (EML) – At a glance

EXAMPLES

Extension of the ABAP Language

with SQL-like syntax

Used to control the transactional

behavior of RAP business objects (BOs)

Provides API-based access to RAP BOs,

even outside of the RAP context

API reference available in the ABAP

keyword documentation (link)

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BIG PICTURE
RAP – The big picture
WEB APIs EVENTS SAP FIORI UIs
Consume OData based services Consume business events Consume OData based UI
CONSUMPTION services

SERVICE BINDING – Bind to protocol version and scenario

SERVICE DEFINITION – Define scope to be exposed

BUSINESS OBJECT PROJECTIONS AND INTERFACES

CDS: BO projection views
BDEF: Behavior projection

EXTENSIBILITY
BUSINESS ABAP: Behavior implementation 1
SERVICE
EXPOSURE

CDS ENTITIES BUSINESS OBJECTS

CDS: Data modeling CDS: Data modeling
BDEF: Behavior definition
DATA MODELING ABAP: Behavior implementation
& BEHAVIOR
1 Not applicable for RAP BO interfaces
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BUSINESS OBJECTS
What is a business object (BO) ?

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

R
2

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

INTERACTION PHASE

TX buffer

SAVE SEQUENCE

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BO runtime implementation types

INTERACTION SAVE
PHASE SEQUENCE UNMANAGED
For brownfield developments with available application code for
finalize interaction phase, transactional buffer, and save sequence
 Developers in charge of BO runtime: CRUD operations
check_before_save
 Adapters needed to integrate the existing code
MODIFY

adjust_numbers
READ

LOCK

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

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BUSINESS SERVICES
Business service

Web API Lifecycle

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

2
3
1 Tool support

4 UI: SAP Fiori Elements preview

Web API: Swagger UI preview*

Service Definition: which entities? R

* planned

BO Projection View: which elements?

Behavior Projection: which behavior?

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The development flow

DEFINE ROLES
Role
SERVICE
BINDING PREVIEW

BIND TO SCENARIO
AND PROTOCOL

SERVICE
AUNIT DEFINITION
Scenario and integration test
DEFINE SCOPE

ADD
BEHAVIOR
AUNIT
Unit test
DATA MODEL BEHAVIOR
PROJECTION PROJECTION

PROJECT ELEMENTS AND 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
APPLICATION DATA
DATABASE TABLES Lock object
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SUMMARY
Key takeaways

The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)

helps you efficiently and rapidly build enterprise-grade services
with built-in cloud qualities.
RAP best support SAP HANA and SAP Fiori elements.

RAP is available on SAP BTP ABAP Environment, SAP S/4HANA

Cloud, and SAP S/4HANA as of edition 1909.

The RAP feature scope is enhanced quarterly in SAP BTP

ABAP Environment, twice a year in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
ABAP Environment, and annually in SAP S/4HANA.

What’s New: SAP BTP ABAP environment | SAP S/4HANA | SAP S/4HANA Cloud

What’s Next: ABAP Platform Roadmap Information for all products

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More information on RAP

Further information
Modern ABAP Development with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) | SAP Community
Modernization with RAP | SAP Blogs
Building Apps with RAP | openSAP Course
Acquire Core ABAP Skills | SAP Learning Journey
What’s New in RAP: SAP BTP ABAP Environment | SAP S/4HANA | SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Outlook: SAP BTP ABAP Environment on the interactive SAP Road Map Explorer | ABAP Platform Roadmap Information

Public SAP Web sites

ABAP Development Community: www.sap.com/community/topic/abap.html
SAP BTP ABAP Environment Community: https://community.sap.com/topics/btp-abap-environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment Community: https://community.sap.com/topics/s4hana-cloud-abap-environment
ABAP Testing and Analysis Community: https://community.sap.com/topics/abap-testing-analysis
SAP products: www.sap.com/products

SAP training and certification opportunities

www.sap.com/education – e.g. trainings S4D437, S4D430, HA400, and S4D400
learning.sap.com/learning-journey – e.g., search for ABAP

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Exercises

https://github.com/SAP-samples/abap-
exercises-codejam
Thank you.
Contact information:

Rich Heilman
Developer Advocacy
SAP
rich.Heilman@sap.com

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