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ABAP Rollout CDS View Entities ABAPConf

The document discusses the new generation of Core Data Services (CDS) views, specifically focusing on CDS view entities introduced in ABAP 7.55. It outlines the advantages of these entities over traditional DDIC-based views, including simplified definitions, improved performance, and enhanced architecture. Additionally, it covers the migration process from DDIC-based views to CDS view entities, highlighting the incompatibility and available tools for migration.

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ABAP Core Data Services:

A new generation of CDS views – CDS view entities

Andrea Schlotthauer, SAP
December 2022

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Agenda

Introduction Part I Part II Further information

Motivation & Migration from CDS
Advantages DDIC-based view to
CDS view entity
▪ Manual
▪ Tool-based

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Introduction
Introduction

CDS DDIC-based CDS view entity,

view, superseded by DEFINE VIEW
DEFINE VIEW ENTITY

Release Info, CDS view entity:

• ABAP 7.55
• Kernel Release 7.81
• ABAP Platform 2020
• ABAP Platform Cloud 2008

Source, Release Info: ABAP Keyword Documentation (sap.com)

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Overview of CDS entities (ABAP Platform 2022)
CDS entity name Statement Purpose Status
CDS View Entity DEFINE VIEW ENTITY • Data selection Replacement for
• VDM interface view DDIC-based view
CDS Projection View DEFINE VIEW ENTITY • Exposing data of underlying
AS PROJECTION ON CDS view
• Top-most layer of a CDS data
model in the RAP context
• VDM consumption view
CDS Table Function DEFINE TABLE Select data with AMDP
FUNCTION functions (SAP HANA-native
functions)
CDS Hierarchy DEFINE HIERARCHY Hierarchy modeling
CDS Custom Entity DEFINE CUSTOM Implementing an unmanaged
ENTITY query, unmanaged RAP BO
CDS Abstract Entity DEFINE ABSTRACT Data type for RAP actions or
ENTITY functions
CDS DDIC-Based View DEFINE VIEW • Data selection Obsolete
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Part l:
Motivation & Advantages
Motivation & Advantages

CDS DDIC-based view

CDS entity DDIC artifact

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Motivation & Advantages

CDS view entity

DDIC artifact

CDS entity

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Motivation & Advantages

No DDIC artifact
• Only ONE name for CDS view
entities (and not three names any
more)
• One object less that can become
inconsistent
• Faster activation

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Motivation & Advantages

Simplified definition, consumption & management

• View entities are represented adequately on SAP HANA database.
• Stricter syntax & semantic checks indicate problematic situations
more explicitly, for example, annotation checks.
• Automatic and implicit client handling.
• Obstacles have been removed (such as handling of CDS extends).
• Improved type safety within CDS expressions (typed literals and
stricter checks).
• Improved refactoring of view stacks.

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Motivation & Advantages

Optimized CDS activation

• Significant performance improvements
▪ No CDS-managed DDIC views are generated
▪ Drastically simplified handling of CDS extends
▪ Example
View stack / scenario Activation time Activation time CDS
DDIC-based view view entity
10 / CREATE VIEW Stack 20,19 s 10,61 s
20 / CREATE VIEW Stack 40,56 s 21,37 s
10 / CHANGE FIELD 32,68 s 22,11 s
20 / CHANGE FIELD 68,88 s 48,09 s

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Motivation & Advantages

Improved architecture
• Checks of key elements
• Amount / quantity handling
• Improved buffer handling using CDS tuning objects

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Further information

• A new generation of CDS views: CDS view entities | SAP Blogs

• CDS view entities are feature complete. Overview of new features,
improvements, and differences | SAP Blogs
• Buffering CDS View Entities | SAP Blogs
• ABAP Core Data Services: New syntax for extending CDS entities |
SAP Blogs
• Feature Matrix: Data Modeling with ABAP Core Data Services | SAP
Blogs

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Demo
define view entity DEMO_VIEW_ENTITY_AS
with parameters
@EndUserText.label: 'Parameter for abap.int test'
p_abap_int4 : abap.int4
as select from sflight as a
inner join spfli as b on 1 = 1 -- literal on left side of ON condition
association to scarr as _scarr on 1 = 1 -- literal on left side of ON condition
{
key a.carrid,
b.deptime, -- prefix mandatory

//case expression with expressions and functions as operands

case cast( a.carrid as char3)
when substring( cast( 'AA' as char2), 1, 2) then 'American Airlines'
when substring( cast( 'LH' as char2), 1, 2) then 'Lufthansa'
else 'Others'
end as Airline,

//substring with session variable, parameter, and arith_exp as operands

substring( $session.user_timezone, $parameters.p_abap_int4,1*2) as Subs,

// complex case with expressions as operands and with new statement ELSE NULL
case when a.seatsmax * 2 = case 500 when 7 then 1 end
then 'x'
else null
end as Arith_on_left_side_of_case,

//new feature: typed literal

abap.dec'.15' as dec_literal
} where --where clause case and arith_exp as operands
b.distance * 5 = case a.price when 500 then 0 else 1 end

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CDS view entity extension

extend view entity DEMO_VIEW_ENTITY_AS with

{
_scarr
}

• No DDIC append view

• No name after WITH
• No dummy field required

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New feature: Calculated quantity with calculated unit reference

@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #NOT_ALLOWED
@EndUserText.label: 'CDS view entity, calculated quantity'

define view entity DEMO_CDS_CALCULATED_QUANTITY

as select from demo_rent
{
key apartment_id as ApartmentId,
apartment_size as ApartmentSize,
apartment_unit as ApartmentUnit,
currency as Currency,

// currency field and unit field in arith expression

@Semantics.quantity.unitOfMeasure: 'calculatedUnit'
rent_decfloat34 / apartment_size as rent_per_size,
concat( concat(currency, '/' ), apartment_unit )
as calculatedUnit
}

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New feature: Calculated quantity with calculated unit reference

Data Preview:

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New feature: Entity buffer as separate CDS tuning object

CDS view entity that allows buffering:

@AbapCatalog.entityBuffer.definitionAllowed: true

define view entity DEMO_CDS_GEN_BUFFERED_VIEW

as select from sairport
{
key id as Id,
key name as Name,
time_zone as Time_Zone
}

Entity buffer:

define view entity buffer on DEMO_CDS_GEN_BUFFERED_VIEW

layer core
type generic number of key elements 1

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Part ll:
Migration from DDIC-based view to view
entity
Compatibility & Migration

Incompatibility by design
• CDS view entities by design incompatible to the existing CDS views.
• No automatic migration.