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 Modifying Contents of Containers

Use

Upon creating or reading a container, your infotype generally will need to modify its contents. To this end, you must first ensure, via the MODIFY_KEY method, that the container features the correct key … unless you have recently created the container and you know that it already has that key.

Procedure

Once you are certain that the container features the correct key, use the following method(s) to populate the container with the corresponding data.

  • MODIFY_PRIMARY_RECORD

  • MODIFY_SECONDARY_RECORD

  • MODIFY_PREF

  • MODIFY_DATA

  • MODIFY_TEXT_TAB

    Caution Caution

    The container will only process methods MODIFY_PRIMARY_RECORD , MODIFY_SECONDARY_RECORD and MODIFY_DATA if the key of the data records agrees with the key reflected in the Keys for HR Master Data (PSKEY) field. If these entries do not match, then a short dump will occur. However, a container will not lose text data (when present) if the key, primary record, or secondary record are changed.

    End of the caution.

Upon modifying the contents of the container, your infotype will encounter a new container; the system never alters the contents of the previous container. For this reason, you do not need to avoid other references to the container, nor do you need to create copies of the container in an effort to protect the buffer.

Once modification is complete, a reference to interface IF_HRPA_INFOTYPE_CONTAINER is returned. In the unlikely event that you wish to perform additional processing with the container, then you may wish to typecast it again to class CL_HRPA_INFOTYPE_CONTAINER .

Note Note

In the event that your infotype is to process infotype views, remember to consider how it will process secondary data.

End of the note.