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[ABAP] OData – GET_STREAM implementation to return a PDF

  METHOD /iwbep/if_mgw_appl_srv_runtime~get_stream.

* This method get's called when a media file is queried with $value. A binary stream will be returned.

    TRY.
        DATA(file_id) = VALUE zfile_id( it_key_tab[ name = 'file_id' ]-value ).
      CATCH cx_sy_itab_line_not_found.
        RETURN. " leave here when no file_id provided
    ENDTRY.
  
    DATA(ls_file) = get_file( file_id ) " read your file you want to return (if it's not yet a binary stream, convert it)

    DATA(ls_stream) = VALUE ty_s_media_resource( value     = ls_file-value
                                                 mime_type = ls_file-mimetype ). " in my case it's 'application/pdf'

    " necessary to display the filename instead of $value in the viewer title
    TRY.
        " create pdf object
        DATA(lo_fp)     = cl_fp=>get_reference( ).
        DATA(lo_pdfobj) = lo_fp->create_pdf_object( connection = 'ADC' ).
        lo_pdfobj->set_document( pdfdata = ls_stream-value ).
        " set title
        lo_pdfobj->set_metadata( VALUE #( title = ls_file-filename ) ).
        lo_pdfobj->execute( ).
        " get pdf with title
        lo_pdfobj->get_document( IMPORTING pdfdata = ls_stream-value ).

      CATCH cx_fp_runtime_internal
            cx_fp_runtime_system
            cx_fp_runtime_usage INTO DATA(lo_fpex).
    ENDTRY.

    copy_data_to_ref( EXPORTING is_data = ls_stream
                      CHANGING  cr_data = er_stream ).

    " necessary for the pdf to be opened inline instead of a download (also sets the filename when downloaded)
    /iwbep/if_mgw_conv_srv_runtime~set_header( VALUE #( name  = 'content-disposition'
                                                        value = |inline; filename={ ls_file-filename }| ) ).

  ENDMETHOD

Quick way to open a PDFViewer in your UI5 App:

			const pdfViewer = new PDFViewer()
			pdfViewer.setSource("/sap/opu/odata/ZMY_SEVICE" + my_path + "/$value")  // my_path could be something like this "/PdfSet('file_id')"
			pdfViewer.setTitle("My PDFViewer Title") // title of the popup, not the viewer
			pdfViewer.open()

[ABAP] Create DATA-URL from xstring

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URLs

DATA lv_filetype TYPE char4.
DATA lv_content  TYPE xstring.

" get your data, for example a jpg
" lv_filetype = 'jpg'
" lv_content = ....

DATA(mimetype) = /iwwrk/cl_mgw_workflow_rt_util=>get_mime_type_from_extension( lv_filetype ).
DATA(base64)   = /iwwrk/cl_mgw_workflow_rt_util=>base64_encode( lv_content ).

DATA(lv_data_url) = |data:{ mimetype };base64,{ base64 }|.

[ABAP] OData – Filtering, Sorting, Paging

    " Filter, Sort, Paging
    /iwbep/cl_mgw_data_util=>filtering( EXPORTING it_select_options = it_filter_select_options
                                        CHANGING  ct_data           = et_entityset ).
    /iwbep/cl_mgw_data_util=>orderby(   EXPORTING it_order          = it_order
                                        CHANGING  ct_data           = et_entityset ).
    /iwbep/cl_mgw_data_util=>paging(    EXPORTING is_paging         = is_paging
                                        CHANGING  ct_data           = et_entityset ).

[SAPUI5] Get data of an Item of a List or Table

All options have in common that you first try to get the binding context from the list/table element via the event. Having the right context, you can either use the getProperty() function to get a specific property, or use the getObject() function to get all data.

onClick: function (oEvent) {
    // Option 1
    oEvent.getParameters().item.getBindingContext().getProperty("ID") 
    // Option 2
    oEvent.getParameters().item.getBindingContext().getObject().ID
    // Option 3
    oEvent.getParameter("item").getBindingContext().getObject().ID 
    // Option 4
    oEvent.getSource().getBindingContext().getObject().ID 
}

Note: When using a List, it’s oEvent.getParameters().listItem instead of oEvent.getParameters().item.

Or you could also use the sPath property from the binding context and directly get the data from the model.

onClick: function (oEvent) {
    // Option 5
    const sPath = oEvent.getSource().getBindingContext().sPath 
    // 5a
    this.getView().getModel().getProperty(sPath).ID 
    // 5b
    this.getView().getModel().getProperty(sPath + "/ID") 
}

[CAP] Invoke custom handlers when querying local entity

const cds = require('@sap/cds');

module.exports = async srv => {

     const { Objects } = srv.entities // entities from myService.cds
   
     srv.on("myAction", async req => {
        const query = SELECT.one.from(Objects).where({ id: req.data.myId })
        const srv = await cds.connect.to('myService')
        const data = await srv.run(query)
        console.log(data) 
        return data
    })

    srv.on("READ", Objects, async req => {
        console.log("Objects called")
        // Select data from db or forward query to external system
        // ...
        // return data
    })

}

[SuccessFactors] Create JavaScript Date-Object from DateTimeOffset

The SuccessFactors oData v2 API is returning timestamps in Unix Epoch format (unix-style milliseconds since 1/1/1970).

Many timestamp fields are of type Edm.Int64. When receiving the milliseconds as Integer, you can directly create a date-object of it using Date(1658237847).

But some timestamps are of type Edm.DateTimeOffset, i.e.: "createdDate": "/Date(1652252620000+0000)/".
When binding a timestamp property with an ODataModel, the internal lib datajs will convert the /Date(...)/ value to a standard JS date-object.

But in my case I manually had to convert the timestamp and this is the shortest way I found to convert the epoch string into a JS date-object.

// SF epoch date string
const SFdateString = '/Date(1652252620000+0000)/' 

// remove the '/' on both sides and create the date object
const oDate = eval('new ' + SFdateString .slice(1, -1))

console.log(typeof oDate )
console.log(oDate )

const oDateTimeFormat = sap.ui.core.format.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance({
          pattern: "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"
})
return oDateTimeFormat.format(oDate)


[Workflow] You are not one of the possible agents of task ‘&1’

The Function Module SAP_WAPI_START_WORKFLOW uses RH_TASK_START_CHECK to check, if the calling user is allowed to start the Workflow.
In it RH_TASKS_TO_START is used to read the WF and Task IDs which the user is allowed to call. But it uses a buffer and if you just did some changes to the Workflow Classification, i.e. setting it to General Task,

it can be that this check will continue to fail as it is reading old data from the buffer.

You will receive an error message from Message Class WZ: You are not one of the possible agents of task ‘&1’

I had this problem sometimes when transporting objects to the next system, but until now I could not figure out when it happens and when not.

Luckily the solution is pretty simple, just call T-Code SWU_OBUF and do a buffer refresh/synchronization.
Rob Dielemans has explained the cause very well here.