ABAP Core Data Services

A primer
 ABAP Core Data Services

CDS is a framework for defining and consuming semantically rich, reusable data

models on the database instead of the ABAP server, regardless of the database

platform, enabling a common programming model that can take advantage of

innovations such as in-memory processing. These data models are defined in

ABAP programs as CDS views, which provide access to the data in the data

model.
The Intent is to be able to model data in various ways to promote Code-2-data on

the database(where the data resides) rather than on the app server.
Some more ABAP Core Data Services
1. Create a simple view - ZDDLS_CDS_00
2. Consume in a ABAP program - ZHJ_CDS_00_CONSUMPTION
3. Create a new CDS simple view, use it in ABAP and look up
the values in the data preview, also view it in the ABAP
dictionary
Some more ABAP Core Data Services
1. Aggregation within CDS Views
2. Conditional Logic inside views
3. Simple View
4. View on a View
5. View Extensions
 Some more ABAP Core Data Services
1. Provide input parameters to provide context based selects
2. Demonstrate ZDDLS_CDS_14A_INPUT_PARAMETERS
3. Demonstrate ZDDLS_CDS_14B_CONSUMPTION
4. Demonstrate how to consume in ABAP ZHJ_CDS_01_CONSUMPTION_VWP
5. Union Clause ZDDLS_CDS_20_UNION
6. Joins both Inner and Outer in one go ZDDLS_CDS_21_JOIN
Some more ABAP Core Data Services
1. Associations in CDS Views – Replacing joins with simple path expressions
2. Normal JOIN - ZDDLS_CDS_21_JOIN
3. Replace with a simple Association ZDDLS_CDS_30_ASSOC_SIMPLE
4. Exposing Associations - ZDDLS_CDS_31A_ASSOC_TYPES
5. Consuming Associations - ZDDLS_CDS_31B_ASSOC_TYPES
ABAP CDS Table Functions

ABAP CDS table functions define table functions that are implemented natively on the
database and can be called in CDS. As such, they support the HANA platform code
pushdown capabilities in ABAP CDS.
ABAP CDS Table Functions
ABAP CDS Table Functions

 Create a demo CDS Table function

Annotations

 From the compiler’s point of view, annotations are simply something that can be
written at given positions and have to follow a prescribed syntax.
ABAP Annotations
 Before ABAP 7.50, only a handful annotations played a role. Those were the
annotations that are evaluated during activation and by the ABAP runtime
environment. We call those annotations ABAP annotations. 

 An important example is@ClientDependent, that defines the client handling when Open
SQL is used to access a CDS entity. Other examples are the EndUserText annotations
that denote translatable texts.
Annotations with ABAP 7.50
 The usage of annotations is not restricted to the ABAP Dictionary’s own needs and the
ABAP runtime environment (e.g.. Open SQL)

 ABAP 7.50 onwards, Software components of SAP such as ODATA, UI, and Analytics
prescribe sets of annotations that can be used to achieve a defined behaviour and the
frameworks themselves provide frameworks that evaluate these framework specific
annotations and act accordingly.
CDS Example with Annotations
 https://sapyard.com/abap-on-sap-hana-part-xv-expose-cds-views-as-odata-service-
through-annotation/
 Useful links

1. SAP HANA ABAP: CDS/AMDP – The Real Picture

2. ABAP Core Data Services

3. Annotations in ABAP CDS

4. All annotations

5. Expose CDS View as an OData Service