Calling a Classic BAdI 

When you define a Business Add-In, enhancement management generates a class that implements your interface. The application developer uses a factory method to create an instance of this adapter class in the application program and calls the corresponding method, if necessary.

The adapter class method generated by add-in management decides if one or several active implementations should be called. If necessary, these implementations are subsequently executed. The application program ensures only that the adapter class method is called. The application program does not know which implementations are called.

Note

As of Release 7.0, BAdIs are supported by the kernel and your call is integrated into the ABAP language through the statements:

GET BADI

CALL BADI

Refer also to the ABAP keyword documentation.

 

Example:

Having created a string conversion Business Add-In, you would program the call of the Business Add-In into your ABAP source code as follows:

1    Report businessaddin.
2    class cl_exithandler definition load.           "Forward declaration
3    data exit type ref to if_ex_businessaddin.      "Interface reference
4    data wort(15) type c value 'Business Add-in'.   "String to be changed

5    start-of-selection.
6      call method cl_exithandler=>get_instance      "Factory call-
7            exporting                                                    "Method
                exit name              =’BUSINESSADDIN’
8              null instance accepted =’X’
9            changing instance = exit.
10     write:/'Please click here'.

11   at line-selection.
12     write:/ 'Original-Wort: ',wort.

13   if not exit is initial.
14     call method exit->methode                     "Add-In call
15           changing parameter = wort.
16   endif.
17     write:/ 'changed word: ',word.

In order to be able to call static methods, you must declare the corresponding class in ABAP Objects. This is why the class … definition load statement is necessary for the factory class.

A variable for object reference is also necessary when calling the method. Use data to create it and type it to the interface.

During initialization (line 6), the application developer creates an adapter class instance using the factory method. The instance methods are then called at the time specified.

To improve performance during creation of the instances, you should specify additional parameters for the call in the method GET_INSTANCE of the class CL_EXITHANDLER.

EXIT_NAME: The name of the BAdI definition is assigned to this parameter.

NULL_INSTANCE_ACCEPTED: Whenever the value X is assigned to this parameter, no instance is created if there are no active implementations for this BAdI definition. In this case, the INSTANCE parameter has the value NULL. Using this parameter implies that the method calls of this BAdI may only be called under the condition that this instance is not NULL. The query if not <badi instance> is initial. is necessary in this case.

Notes on Usage

The instance generated through the factory method should be declared as globally as possible or generally be passed as a parameter to ensure that the initialization process must be run as rarely as possible – just once would be best. In no case should you discard the instance as soon as it is generated or repeatedly run the initialization process in a loop.

Within the adapter class interface, required database accesses are buffered locally, so that each access is executed only once. However, repeated initialization makes the buffer useless and dramatically reduces performance.

Due to the local buffering, you can call Business-Add-In methods without having to expect considerable performance restrictions even if no active implementations exist.

Also, if the definition of the Business-Add-In is filter-dependent, a single instance is sufficient.

However, you should not do without initialization altogether. Even if you could call static methods of the implementing class of the Business-Add-In implementation without an instance, you would loose the benefit of performance improvement through the Business-Add-Ins and the possibility of multiple use. If you switch the method type in the interface from the static method to the instance method at any time in the future, many code adjustments are required. In addition, you can no longer use default code that is provided.