Source: SO10

The SO10 source type lets you fetch data from an SAP Standard text. Those maintained with transaction SO10 (thus the name).

If for some reason you don't want to store your data in a database table you can always store it in an SO10 text. This is particularly suitable for cases in which the constants will vary according to the language.

How to use it

It is implemented in class ZCL_ABAK_SOURCE_SO10 but you probably won't ever need to know this.

DATA o_source TYPE REF TO zif_abak_source.

o_source = zcl_abak_source_factory=>get_instance(
  i_source_type = zif_abak_consts=>source_type-standard_text
  i_content      = 'TEXT1 ST EN' ).

The content parameter contains 3 parameters: TEXT1, TEXTID and LANGUAGE. Only the first one is mandatory. The other two are option and and default to ST and SY-LANGU respectively. So this could also do:

o_source = zcl_abak_source_factory=>get_instance(
  i_source_type = zif_abak_consts=>source_type-standard_text
  i_content      = 'TEXT1' ).

And then you feed it to ZCL_ABAK_FACTORY=>GET_CUSTOM_INSTANCE() together with an FORMAT class capable of interpreting that data format.

Use GET_CUSTOM_INSTANCE() only if really needed

Using custom components is the only situation in which you need to explicitly instantiate these classes. If you're using built-in SOURCE and FORMAT types this will be automatically done for you by the other factory static methods.

Bear in mind that, if the data is in XML or CSV format then abaK built-in components are already compatible with it, it will be much easier to do this:

DATA: o_abak TYPE REF TO ZIF_ABAK.

o_abak = zcl_abak_factory=>get_instance(
  i_format_type = zif_abak_consts=>format_type-xml
  i_source_type = zif_abak_consts=>source_type-standard_text
  i_content     = 'TEXT1 ST EN' ).