Usage of SOAP Lookup and RFC

Lookup in a Single Mapping

Program

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Summary
This article provides details on the usage of the SOAP lookup and RFC lookup along with the multi mapping
in the single mapping program and explains how to fetch the data using the look up’s and creating files in
their respective business system.

Author: Pavan Kumar Nukala

Company: Yash Technologies
Created on: 31 August 2009

Author Bio
Pavan Kumar Nukala is an SAP PI Consultant in Yash Technologies

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Table of Contents
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................3
Structure of RFC.................................................................................................................................................4
Creation of Outbound Data Types......................................................................................................................6
Creation of Inbound Data Types.........................................................................................................................7
Creation of Message Interfaces..........................................................................................................................8
Mapping ............................................................................................................................................................10
Test the Mapping ..............................................................................................................................................12
Configurations in the Integration Directory .......................................................................................................13
Related Content................................................................................................................................................18
Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
We had a requirement in which we want to send the request to the RFC in SAP system and the
WEBSERVICE both at a time and the values which we retrieve from the both systems should create the
separate files in their respective business system.
I tried with the different approaches and finally I come up this approach. While trying with different
approaches I found that synchronous flow of messages does not support multiple receivers. Here I used the
concept of Lookup’s to overcome this issue. And lookup’s helped me a lot and solve the issue very easily.
And along with the lookup’s I used the concept of MULTIMAPPING.
I used the web service as Conversion Rate and created the custom RFC which has the input and output
parameters. The RFC which was created in R/3 system has the functionality to take input and deliver the
output.

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Structure of RFC

The above screen shows the input parameters of the RFC and the output parameter is as shown below:

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The below screen shows the simple code to fetch the data from the custom table based on the input
parameters.

Based on the web service and the RFC, create the Source data type and message types.

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Creation of Outbound Data Types

Source data type has the fields FromCurrency and ToCurrency.Create the two inbound data types, one is
for the web service and the other is for the RFC with same structure having the field as ForexRate as below

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Creation of Inbound Data Types

Inbound data type for web service:

Inbound data type for the RFC.

Create one outbound message type and two inbound message types based on the above data types which
were not mentioned here.

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Creation of Message Interfaces

Create one outbound interface with mode as asynchronous.

Create the two inbound interfaces for RFC and web service. Inbound interface for the web service which is
asynchronous.

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Inbound interface for the RFC which is asynchronous.

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Mapping
Create the message mapping. While creating mapping program add the inbound message types explicitly
under the message tab as shown below

After adding the outbound message type and inbound message types perform the mapping between the
fields as shown below.

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In the above screen the input fields FromCurrency and ToCurrency are mapped to the target field
ForexRate which is under message type MT_IB_SoapLookup using the UDF SoapLookUp.

In the above screen the input fields FromCurrency and ToCurrency are mapped to the target field
ForexRate which is under message type MT_IB_RFCLOOKUP using the UDF RFCLookup.
Configure the two receiver communication channels in the ID, one is for the SOAP adapter and the other is
for the RFC adapter. Since we are using the soaplook and the rfclookup in our mapping we need to maintain
the business system name and the respective communication channel names in the UDF.These
communication channels will help to get the output from the RFC and web service based on the values given
in the input fields in the message mapping.
Testing the message mapping. If you observe the below screen based on the input values the output got
generated from the RFC and Web service. The Field ForexRate which has the value 79.4937 is coming from
the web service (of course it may vary from day to day) and the ForexRate which is having the value 80 is
coming from the RFC.

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Test the Mapping

Create the interface mapping between the outbound interface and the two inbound interfaces as shown
below. In the inbound side add the two interfaces by using the add button.

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Configurations in the Integration Directory

Create one sender communication channel with adapter type FILE and two receiver communication
channels with adapter types FILE and two more receiver communication channels for RFC and SOAP as
discussed above.
Create the Business systems for sender communication channel and receiver communication channels. For
RFC and SOAP receiver channels use business service and for the RFC business service maintain the
adapter specific identifiers.
Create the File sender communication channel and maintain the required parameters like source directory
and file name, FTP parameters and the processing mode.

Create the two File receiver communication channels and maintain the required parameters which were not
showed here.

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Create the SOAP receiver communication channel and maintain the target URL and soap action.

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Create the RFC receiver communication channel and maintain the details of the target R/3 system.

Create the one sender agreement for sender file adapter and two receiver agreements for the receiver file
adapters and create Enhanced interface determination and one receiver determination, no need to create
any receiver agreements for the RFC and SOAP communication channels. The creation of agreements was
not shown here as it is quite easy.

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Create the interface determination and select the radio button enhanced and select the interface mapping.

Create the receiver determination as shown below

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After done with end to end configurations, test the scenario.

Our Input xml file is

After the source file has picked successfully log on to ABAP stack and hit the transaction SXMB_MONI and
observe the pipeline steps. Under message mapping step under the payload you can see the two payloads
as shown below. Right click on the below selected fields and open them in window one and window two.

Output files will be generated as below.

Output using SOAPLookUp:

Output using RFCLookUp:

In this document I am not giving any code for the UDF’s SOAPLOOKUP and RFCLOOKUP.Since there is
no much difference in the code only thing is to change the business systems and communication channels
For better understand of the code and lookup’s refer the below links.

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Related Content
Please refer the below links for more information on lookup’s.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/5001
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/a03e7b02-eea4-2910-089f-
8214c6d1b439&overridelayout=true
http://help.sap.com

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