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Part1 – how to test odata service generated by CDS view

Part2 – this blog
Part3 – how is view source in Eclipse converted to ABAP view in the backend
Part4 – how does annotation @OData.publish work

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You paste the following source code for a simple CDS view into
ABAP development studio and activate it:

@AbapCatalog.sqlViewName: 'zjerrySQL0208'
@AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter: true
@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #CHECK
@EndUserText.label: 'test 233'
@ObjectModel: {
createEnabled,
deleteEnabled,
updateEnabled
}
define view Zjerrytest20160208
as select from spfli association [0..1] to scarr as _scarr
on _scarr.carrid = spfli.carrid {
key spfli.carrid,
key _scarr.carrname,
key spfli.connid,
spfli.cityfrom,
spfli.cityto
}

And you would like to know what objects are automatically

generated during CDS view activation.

Automatically generated ABAP objects during CDS view

activation

You could query table TADIR with following parameters:

And get answer:

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The relationship among these objects is listed below:

And if you use the same approach described in tutorial part1,

you can realize that lots of database tables “DD*” are involved
during CDS view activation, for example DDLDEPENDENCY.
A small tip here is, if you click “Display Object List” button, you
will navigate to the package where other related ABAP artifacts
within the same package are displayed as well.

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Now we can go through each database table one by one.

Several table entries are inserted to the database tables in

package SDDL during view activation.

Query this table by specifying DDLNAME as CDS view name

we specified in ABAP development studio, the name after
keyword “define view” : Zjerrytest20160208, and we can find
view source code stored in field SOURCE.

Text table which stores the view description specified via

annotation @EndUserText.label.

It stores all header annotation specified in CDS view source

code with corresponding value.

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It maintains relationship between the CDS core entity and

automatically generated database view.

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