Wednesday 22 August 2018

HANA Core Data Services

I've been getting to grips recently with the Core Data Services and the ABAP Development Toolkit in Eclipse. I do like dropping into Eclipse from time to time, and it's a nice environment to use once it's been loaded, which can take a while. 

There's two things I've learned today... one is that the filters in Data Preview sometimes need the leading zeroes dropping in : I've spent ages getting rubbish data against Material 123456789 when I really needed 00000123456789. Kicked myself so hard when that one happened.

One of my problems with CDS in ADT is that I'm used to SE80 jumping into SE11 when I double click on an object.

Not here in ADT! I'm forced to go and find the thing.


Whether this is intentional, and will force devs to be all organised in the way they store their definitions, I don't know. There's a lot to like about the way Eclipse integrates with SAP, and time will tell whether it gets adopted by the community, but this feels like a step backwards.