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📌 Introduction In modern SAP development, the RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) offers a powerful framework for building scalable, maintainable, and service-oriented applications. One of its standout features is Deep Insert, which allows the creation of a root entity along with its associated child entities in a single transactional request.This blog walks through a real-world…

This post summarizes the most common annotations that are required to build a RESTful Application Programming Service in ABAP. ABAP CDS are written in Data Definition Language (DDL). These annotations are broadly categorized into two types. ABAP CDS – ABAP Annotations Framework-Specific Annotations ABAP CDS – ABAP Annotations These annotations are evaluated by ABAP runtime…

Defining and using naming conventions ensure consistency in the names used by all the developers on a project. This posts summarizes the naming conventions recommended by SAP for the RAP Development Objects. General Rules The overall object name will be split into 3 parts. [/<namespace>/][<prefix>]_<meaningful_abbreviation>_[<suffix>]. Namespace [/<namespace>/] For custom object, the…

This post explains the class where the behavior definition methods are implemented. This is covered in various posts of the ABAP RAP Series, however the methods are scattered across the posts. A business object is implemented through a specialized class pool that references its behavior definition. When the unmanaged implementation type is used, developers must implement all the behavior. This…

In this post, you will learn about Authorization Control in ABAP RESTful Application Programming. Authorization Control Authorization control in RAP protects the RAP BO from unauthorized access to data. The authorization for consumers is managed and maintained by the system administrator but developers would sometime need to implement the controls. Authorization checks for read operations are…

In this post, you will learn about Concurrency handling in ABAP RESTful Application Programming. Concurrency Concurrency handling means handling simultaneous update requests for the same resource If simultaneous update requests are received, the service should allow only one update at a time and reject other updates Concurrency needs to be managed as we need to prevent concurrent and…

Numbering in ABAP RESTful Application Programming means setting up values for the primary key fields of the entity. The primary key can consist of one or more fields. Earlier posts cover the details of the options available for Numberin – External Numbering and Managed Early Numbering Unmanaged Early Numbering This post talks about Unmanaged Late Numbering. Unmanaged Late Numbering This…

Numbering means setting up values for the primary key fields of the entity. The primary key can consist of one or more fields. An earlier post, External Numbering and Managed Early Numbering covers the details of the options available for Numbering. This post talks about Unmanaged Early Numbering. Unmanaged Early Numbering This scenario is also referred to as ‘Unmanaged Internal Early…