The Growing Guide to RAP Determinations

Collection of RAP determination patterns, implementation examples, common pitfalls, and troubleshooting notes gathered from real-world projects.

Basic Numbering

The child entity requires a sequential RecordNumber, which is part of the entity key and defined as NUMC(9). Since RAP early numbering was not suitable for this numbering requirement, the key value was assigned in a determination during creation.

Behavior Definition

managed implementation in class ZBP_FIXXXZ4KOPF unique;
strict ( 2 );

define behavior for ZR_FIXXXZ4KOPF alias Z4Kopf
persistent table zfiXXXz4kopf
etag master LocalLastChangedAt
lock master
authorization master ( global )

{
...


  create ( precheck );
  update;
  delete;

  association _Z4Pos { create; }
...
}

define behavior for ZR_FIXXXZ4POS alias Z4Position
persistent table zfiXXXz4pos
lock dependent by _Z4Kopf
authorization dependent by _Z4Kopf
early numbering
{



  field ( readonly )
  RecordNumber,
  CreatedOn,
  CreatedAt,
  CreatedBy,
  ChangedOn,
  ChangedAt,
  ChangedBy,
  ReportedOn,
  ReportedAt,
  ReportedBy,
  LocalCreatedAt,
  LocalCreatedBy,
  LastChangedAt,
  LocalLastChangedAt,
  LocalLastChangedBy;

  field ( readonly : update )
  CompanyCode,
  FiscalYear,
  FiscalPeriod,
  SourceSystem;


  update;
  delete;

  association _Z4Kopf;

  determination fillAuditFields on modify { create; }
...

}

Behavior Implementation

CLASS lhc_z4position DEFINITION INHERITING FROM cl_abap_behavior_handler.

  PRIVATE SECTION.
    METHODS fillAuditFields FOR DETERMINE ON MODIFY
      IMPORTING keys FOR Z4Position~fillAuditFields.    

ENDCLASS.


CLASS lhc_z4position IMPLEMENTATION.
  METHOD fillAuditFields.
    MODIFY ENTITIES OF zr_fixxxz4kopf
           IN LOCAL MODE
           ENTITY Z4Position
           UPDATE FIELDS (
             RecordNumber
             CreatedOn
             CreatedAt
             CreatedBy )
           WITH VALUE #( FOR key IN keys
                         INDEX INTO idx
                         ( %tky         = key-%tky
                           RecordNumber = idx
                           CreatedOn    = sy-datum
                           CreatedAt    = sy-timlo
                           CreatedBy    = sy-uname ) ).
  ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.