ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 1Today we will discuss about the Design Pattern: Model-View-Controller, which is also very famous by its abbriviation MVC. By definition, MVC is to isolate the business logic from the User Interface which gives great degree of flexibility to change business logic independently to the user interface and vice versa.

Basics of MVC

In MVC, User Interface acts as the View; Business logic acts as the Model and the link which provides the link between the View and Model is known as the Controller. In real time business, MVC is used anywhere, where users have a choice to select his or her view. For example, Windows Media Player, Gmail or Yahoo mail and so on. All these type of application provides us the option to select the skin as per our choice.

Let’s take an example: We have to develop one Sales report for our corporate intranet. This report must have the option to display the sales data in the classical report format; different charts – pie, bar, line or both – report & chart and it must be based on the User’s choice. This type of requirements where we can easily separate the Business logic and the views are the best candidates for MVC.

Generally, Model sends the data to controller and controller will pass that data to Views and views will display the data as per their nature. In SAP, our business logic(model) will not send data unless and until View request for an data because ABAP is event driven language. Like user has to run some transaction to get the data, means application view has to initiate the process and ask for the data from the Model. In this requesting process, Controller will help the view to be apart from the model.

UML for MVC

UML diagram of the typical MVC application would be:

As we can see here, Model will send the data to the Controller and controller will pass that information to the View. Now, its a view’s responsibility to create a user specific view – Report, or Chart.

Advantages of using MVC:

Since both our business logic and view logic are different, we can easily change any of the logic without interrupting the other part.

In the next post, we will see how we can implement the MVC design pattern in ABAP usin the ABAP Objects.

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 2 ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 3

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 2

In this post, we will see how we can implement the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern in ABAP using the Objects. If you have not read the previous discussion about MVC: ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 1, than I strongly recommond to read that before moving forward.

Demo Application

To implement the MVC, we will create two applications – One will generate an output in ALV and other will generate an output Smartforms. We will put our business logic in the MODEL class. We will create one CONTROL class to establish control between Model and Views.

Our business logic for this example is fairly simple – select the Sales Orders from the VBAK which were created in last ten days. The public method GET_DATA in the class ZCL_MODEL will act as the business logic. Additionally, this class has the public attribute T_VBAK which will be set by the GET_DATA and hold our data from the table.

UML

The UML diagram for any of the application would be like:

Model Class Setup

Model Method Definition

Model Attribute definition

Code Snippet of method GET_DATAThis code would be implemented in the method GET_DATA

 * Parameters* Importing IR_ERDAT TYPE TPMY_R_DATE Ranges for date*METHOD get_data.** Get data and save into attribute T_VBAK SELECT * FROM vbak INTO TABLE t_vbak WHERE erdat IN ir_erdat.**ENDMETHOD. 

Controller Class Setup

Our controller class ZCL_CONTROL will have a method GET_OBJECT which will give us an object of the model class. We require a public attribute which can refer to the object created in the method GET_OBJECT.

Controller Method definition:

Controller Attributes definition:

Code Snippet for method GET_OBJECT:

 * Parameters* Importing IF_NAME TYPE CHAR30 Model class name*METHOD get_object .* DATA: lo_object TYPE REF TO OBJECT.** Generic object reference to importing class CREATE OBJECT lo_object TYPE (if_name). IF sy-subrc = 0.

* Downcasting to assign generic object to O_MODEL o_model ?= lo_object. ENDIF.*ENDMETHOD. 

In the next post we will see, how we will use the controller class in our view and access the business logic encapsulated in Model class.

Related Links:

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 1 ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 3

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 3In this post, we will see how we can implement the Views which will access the Controller and model which is encapsulated in the controller. This post is in continuation of previous post: ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 2.

First Demo Application – ALV

For our first Application view will be ALV output. To get the data for the ALV into the application, we will use the reference of the MODEL class created in the Controller. This way our model class is entrily separated by the view.

Code Snippet for View 1: ALV of MVC design

 *&---------------------------------------------------------------------**& Purpose - ABAP Design Patterns - Model View Controller MVC - ALV demo*& Author - Naimesh Patel*& URL - http://zevolving.com/?p=52*&---------------------------------------------------------------------**REPORT ztest_mvc_alv.*START-OF-SELECTION.*---------* Controller*--------- DATA: lo_control TYPE REF TO zcl_control.

** Iniiate controller CREATE OBJECT lo_control.** Get the object from Control CALL METHOD lo_control->get_object EXPORTING if_name = 'ZCL_MODEL'.**---------* Model - Business Logic*---------* Date Range DATA: r_erdat TYPE RANGE OF vbak-erdat, la_erdat LIKE LINE OF r_erdat.* la_erdat-SIGN = 'I'. la_erdat-OPTION = 'BT'. la_erdat-LOW = sy-datum - 10. la_erdat-HIGH = sy-datum. APPEND la_erdat TO r_erdat.** Get data method CALL METHOD lo_control->o_model->get_data EXPORTING ir_erdat = r_erdat.**---------* View - ALV output*--------- DATA: lo_alv TYPE REF TO cl_salv_table.* DATA: lx_msg TYPE REF TO cx_salv_msg. TRY. cl_salv_table=>factory( IMPORTING r_salv_table = lo_alv CHANGING t_table = lo_control->o_model->t_vbak ). CATCH cx_salv_msg INTO lx_msg. ENDTRY.*** Displaying the ALV lo_alv->display( ). 

First Demo Application – SmartForms Output

Our Second application is fairly simple once we have implemented the first application as our core logic of getting the data is out of the report. In this application only part which differs is calling the Smartform.

Code Snippet for View 2: Smartforms of MVC design

 *&---------------------------------------------------------------------**& Purpose - ABAP Design Patterns - Model View Controller MVC - *& SmartForms Demo*& Author - Naimesh Patel*& URL - http://zevolving.com/?p=52*&---------------------------------------------------------------------**REPORT ztest_mvc_view_2_ssf.*START-OF-SELECTION.*---------* Controller*--------- DATA: lo_control TYPE REF TO zcl_control.** Iniiate controller CREATE OBJECT lo_control.** Get the object from Control CALL METHOD lo_control->get_object EXPORTING if_name = 'ZCL_MODEL'.**---------* Model - Business Logic*---------* Date Range DATA: r_erdat TYPE RANGE OF vbak-erdat, la_erdat LIKE LINE OF r_erdat.* la_erdat-SIGN = 'I'. la_erdat-OPTION = 'BT'. la_erdat-LOW = sy-datum - 10. la_erdat-HIGH = sy-datum. APPEND la_erdat TO r_erdat.** Get data method CALL METHOD lo_control->o_model->get_data EXPORTING ir_erdat = r_erdat.**---------* View - Smartform Output*---------* Smartform FM DATA: l_form TYPE tdsfname VALUE 'ZTEST_MVC_VIEW_2', l_fm TYPE rs38l_fnam.* CALL FUNCTION 'SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME' EXPORTING formname = l_form IMPORTING fm_name = l_fm EXCEPTIONS no_form = 1 no_function_module = 2

OTHERS = 3.** calling Smartform FM DATA: ls_control TYPE ssfctrlop. " Controlling info DATA: ls_composer TYPE ssfcompop. " Output info* CALL FUNCTION l_fm EXPORTING control_parameters = ls_control output_options = ls_composer user_settings = ' ' t_vbak = lo_control->o_model->t_vbak EXCEPTIONS formatting_error = 1 internal_error = 2 send_error = 3 user_canceled = 4 OTHERS = 5. IF sy-subrc <> 0. MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4. ENDIF. 

Let’s say, in future we enhanced the business logic model class and now we want to implement for the business. In this case, we just have to change the object reference created in the Controller and we are good to go. Obviously, we have to take care of the newly created methods or methods which parameters are enhanced.

Related Links:

ABAP Objects Design Patterns

ABAP Object Design Patterns: Singleton (or file )

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 1

ABAP Objects Design Patterns – Model View Controller (MVC) Part 2.