Object Oriented ABAP

Why ABAP Objects ?

• The idea behind the inception of this

concept in 1992 was encapsulate SAP
functionality with object oriented
interfaces for BAPIs’.
• They now provide additional OO
development and execution functionality

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 Features of Object Orientation

• Information-Hiding ( Through the

sections of the class such as
Public,Protected and Private )
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance ( Deriving additional
attributes from a base class)
• Abstraction (Interfaces)

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 Elements Of ABAP Objects

• Classes – Templates for the objects, no

memory.
• Interfaces – Includes definition but no
implementation
• Objects – Instance of a class

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 Classes

• Classes are templates for objects

• They have the following components
Attributes (Static and Instance )
Methods ( Static and Instance )
Events ( GUI trigger )

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 Attributes

• Attributes are data fields in a class. They

can have any ABAP data type. The
content of an attribute determines the
status of an object.
• Attributes can be of two types.
Instance attributes.
Static Attributes

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 Methods

• Methods are internal procedure in classes.

They can access all attributes of their
class and can thus change the status of an
object.
• They could be compared to the subroutine
in normal ABAP

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 Methods

• Again Methods are of two type

Static Methods
Instance Methods
• Special Method : Constructor

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 Events

• Events enable objects or classes to trigger

event handler methods in other objects or
classes.

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 Objects and Interfaces

• Objects are instance of classes. You can create

any number of objects(instances) for a class.
Each one has a unique identity and its own
attributes.
• An Interface is a mechanism of implementing
Abstraction and Polymorphism – Implementing
the same class in two different ways

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 Inheritance

• Inheritance allows you to define classes by

deriving them from existing classes. The new
class adopts or inherits all components of the
existing class. The existing class is called a
super class of the new class.
• A class can have any number of direct
subclasses, but only one super class. ABAP
Objects thus uses single inheritance.

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