OnCreate

OnCreate is used when a page is called for the first time, and performs a once-off data initialization or object creation.

OnCreate is called each time that the BSP page class is created. You can therefore initialize the page object (in object-oriented thought, this corresponds to the constructor). OnCreate initializes the parts of the object that are created once and then used for the entire lifetime of the object, such as the online shopping basket.

create object shopbasket.

The data that is used to fill the object is read in the event handler OnInitialization.

The BSP application is called in the following cases:

• Single call, if the BSP application is stateful. In this case, the the normal ABAP OO constructor.

• Call each time if the BSP page class is created in the stateless case.

The opposite of OnCreate is OnDestroy.

OnCreate is useful mainly in stateful applications, because in stateless mode, the page object is reinitialized every time the page is called. If you are working in stateful mode without an explicit navigation path, and if you run the page a second time (reuse the page), the page instance remains constant. OnCreate is not run the second time.

See also:

• Stateful and Stateless BSP Applications

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