F4 File-Browser (Application Server directories)

Introduction

Dear ABAP Friends,

as I was playing around with some EnjoyControl classes after attending course BC412, I decided to write a little F4 File-Browser (I still haven’t found any user-friendly standard solution for this).

The File-Browser either takes a logical path or a physical path as input parameters.

The sample coding is available here: https://github.com/alaible/abap_file_browser

The function modules can be tested with report

ZTEST_FILE_DEMO

The logical path needs to be defined with TA FILE in advance.

There are two function modules available:

Z_SELECT_PATH_SIMPLE

which only includes the tree control and

Z_SELECT_PATH

which also has a text edit for quick viewing text file content.

Here are some Screenshots:

Sample Report

FILE-Definition

File-Browser without textedit

There is a file search included:

file-search

The file/path can be selected by double-clicking the corresponding tree node:

selected path

File-Browser with text-edit (implemented via drag and drop on the textedit):

viewing content

In order to read the directory content, I ended up copying function module EPS2_GET_DIRECTORY_LISTING (which only lists files). Is there any other solution for this? (I know that you can define some OS commands to do that, but I never tried).

How do you handle file search on Application-Server directories?

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post!

Cheers,

Alex