Binding
The row type is created at runtime from a DDIC name with CREATE DATA, and the generic data reference is bound straight into the view - editable, multi-selectable, and it survives the roundtrip back to ABAP.
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_061
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Binding
UI5 1.71
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_061- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_061.clas.abap↗- Category
- Binding
- Learning path
- Get your data on screen
- Minimum UI5
- 1.71 — the floor abap2UI5 holds its samples to
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
- Documentation
- abap2ui5.github.io/docs/cookbook/model/binding ↗
Keywords: generic, data, reference, create, data, ddic, dynamic, itab
Controls it builds
- sap.m.Button
- sap.m.Column
- sap.m.ColumnListItem
- sap.m.Input
- sap.m.MessageStrip
- sap.m.OverflowToolbar
- sap.m.Page
- sap.m.Shell
- sap.m.Table
- sap.m.Text
- sap.m.Title
- sap.m.ToolbarSpacer
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
Read out of the builder chain by the abap2UI5 linter, not from the category this sample is filed under — which is what makes “which samples build one of these” a question the catalogue can answer at all.
Libraries
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The sample running, in this page — the app on its own, with no editor over it.
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The ABAP
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_061.clas.abap — 120 lines
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" @keywords generic data reference create data ddic dynamic itab
" @summary The row type is created at runtime from a DDIC name with CREATE DATA, and the generic data reference is bound straight into the view - editable, multi-selectable, and it survives the roundtrip back to ABAP.
" @docs https://abap2ui5.github.io/docs/cookbook/model/binding
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_061 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
DATA t_tab TYPE REF TO data.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
METHODS set_view.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_061 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD set_view.
DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory(
)->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
)->a( n = `displayBlock` v = `true`
)->a( n = `height` v = `100%`
)->a( n = `xmlns` v = `sap.m`
)->a( n = `xmlns:mvc` v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns:core` v = `sap.ui.core` ).
DATA(page) = view->ele( `Shell`
)->ele( `Page`
)->a( n = `title` v = `abap2UI5 - Binding - Dynamic Table Typed at Runtime (RTTI)`
)->a( n = `showNavButton` b = client->check_app_prev_stack( )
)->a( n = `navButtonPress` v = client->_event_nav_app_leave( ) ).
FIELD-SYMBOLS <tab> TYPE table.
ASSIGN t_tab->* TO <tab>.
page->tag( `MessageStrip`
)->a( n = `text` v = `A table typed dynamically at runtime via RTTI from a DDIC table type, with editable ` &&
`multi-select rows bound directly to the dynamically created data.`
)->a( n = `type` v = `Information`
)->a( n = `showIcon` b = abap_true
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin` ).
DATA(tab) = page->ele( `Table`
)->a( n = `items` v = client->_bind( <tab> )
)->a( n = `mode` v = `MultiSelect`
)->ele( `headerToolbar`
)->ele( `OverflowToolbar`
)->tag( `Title`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Dynamic typed table`
)->tag( `ToolbarSpacer`
)->tag( `Button`
" abap2ui5lint-disable-next-line event-without-handler -- the roundtrip IS the demo: the runtime-typed table travels back and re-renders
)->a( n = `press` v = client->_event( `SEND` )
)->a( n = `text` v = `server <-> client`
)->end(
)->end( ).
tab->ele( `columns`
)->ele( `Column`
)->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = `uuid`
)->end(
)->ele( `Column`
)->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = `time`
)->end(
)->ele( `Column`
)->tag( `Text`
)->a( n = `text` v = `previous`
)->end( ).
tab->ele( `items`
)->ele( `ColumnListItem`
)->ele( `cells`
)->tag( `Input`
)->a( n = `value` v = `{ID}`
)->tag( `Input`
)->a( n = `value` v = `{TIMESTAMPL}`
)->tag( `Input`
)->a( n = `value` v = `{ID_PREV}` ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
FIELD-SYMBOLS <tab> TYPE table.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_init( ).
" The point of this sample is CREATE DATA over a DDIC name computed at
" runtime; it needs SOME table that is present on every abap2UI5 system,
" and the framework ships no RELEASED DDIC object to use instead. Reading
" the draft table is not the lesson here - the dynamic typing is.
" abap2ui5lint-disable non-released-api
CREATE DATA t_tab TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF (`Z2UI5_T_01`).
ASSIGN t_tab->* TO <tab>.
INSERT VALUE z2ui5_t_01( id = `this is an uuid` timestampl = `2023234243` id_prev = `previous` ) INTO TABLE <tab>.
INSERT VALUE z2ui5_t_01( id = `this is an uuid` timestampl = `2023234243` id_prev = `previous` ) INTO TABLE <tab>.
INSERT VALUE z2ui5_t_01( id = `this is an uuid` timestampl = `2023234243` id_prev = `previous` ) INTO TABLE <tab>.
" abap2ui5lint-enable non-released-api
set_view( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_navigated( ).
set_view( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
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