Part 2: Generating metadata for an RFC structure

of a specific RFC. This includes the parameters, structures, and tables required to call the RFC as well as the fields included within each.

Often, I find it useful to be able to automatically generate an object-based structure for an RFC interface. This means that, unlike an XML or plain text view, the object structure of the RFC can easily be used to create other formats or views of the structure. By modifying this utility you could (for example) output a Java bean interface, an MQ message format, or even an XML document type definition for any RFC/BAPI interface in SAP. In order to keep things simple, the included source code generates and displays a plain text view of any RFC you care to specify.

Note that the output formatting in the formatRfc() method is pretty clumsy and would normally be replaced with something more elegant. The intent was to create human-readable output of the RFC interface in a plaintext file.

import java.io.FileWriter;
import com.sap.mw.JCo.*;

public class RetrieveRFC {
 static final String[][] sapParams = { {"client", "000"}, {"user", "myUsername"},
 {"passwd", "myPassword"}, {"lang", "en"}, {"ashost", "mySapHost"}, {"sysnr", "00"}};
 static final String interfaceName = "RFC_SYSTEM_INFO";
    static final String filePath = "c:/dev/interface.rfc";
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  try {
   JCo.Client connection = JCo.createClient(sapParams);
   connection.connect();
   IRepository repository = new JCo.Repository("SAPRep", connection);
   JCo.Function interfaceFunction = 
repository.getFunctionTemplate("RFC_GET_FUNCTION_INTERFACE").getFunction();
   interfaceFunction.getImportParameterList().setValue(interfaceName, "FUNCNAME");
   connection.execute(interfaceFunction);
   JCo.Function structFunction = 
repository.getFunctionTemplate("RFC_GET_STRUCTURE_DEFINITION").getFunction();
   JCo.Table interfaceTab = interfaceFunction.getTableParameterList().getTable("PARAMS");
   JCo.Table structTab;
      FileWriter out = new FileWriter(filePath, false);
      out.write("Type" + "/t/t/t");
      out.write("Name" + "/t/t/t/t/t");
      out.write("Description" + "/t/t/t/t");
      out.write("/n");      
   while (interfaceTab.nextRow()) {
  structFunction.getImportParameterList().setValue((String)interfaceTab.getValue("TABNAME"), "TABNAME");
  connection.execute(structFunction);
  structTab = structFunction.getTableParameterList().getTable("FIELDS");
  formatRFC(interfaceTab, structTab, out);
   }
  out.close(); 
  } catch (Exception ex) {ex.printStackTrace();}
     System.out.println("Output written to " + filePath);
 }
 private static void formatRFC(JCo.Table interfaceTab, JCo.Table structTab, FileWriter out) {
   try {
 if ("I".equals((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMCLASS"))) {
  out.write("Parameter" + "/t/t" +
    (String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMETER"));
        if (((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMETER")).length() < 18)
            out.write("/t/t/t");
        else
            out.write("/t/t");        
  out.write((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMTEXT") + "/t/t/t");
  out.write("/n");
 }
 if ("T".equals((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMCLASS")) ||
  "E".equals((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMCLASS"))) {
 if ("T".equals((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMCLASS")))
    out.write("Table/t/t/t" + (String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMETER"));
 else
    out.write("Structure/t/t" + (String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMETER"));
 if (((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMETER")).length() < 18)
  out.write("/t/t/t");
 else
  out.write("/t/t");
 out.write((String)interfaceTab.getValue("PARAMTEXT") + "/n");
 while (structTab.nextRow()) {
  out.write("Field/t/t/t" + (String) structTab.getValue("FIELDNAME") + "/n");
 }
 }
 out.write("/n");
   } catch (Exception ex) {ex.printStackTrace();}
  }
}

THE JCO UTILITY COOKBOOK

 Home: Introduction
 Part 1: Writing an RFC structure to XML
  Part 2: Generating metadata for an RFC structure
 Part 3: Load testing SAP with JCo
 Part 4: Creating a serialized RFC interface
 Review: Conclusion and more resources