Comments on: SAP Web Services in Flex Builder

By: Francisco

Francisco — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:33:15 +0000

I’m not allowed to install SAPlink on my systems, can you share the source of the abap function group?
Thanks in advance.

By: Ransome

Ransome — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:21:53 +0000

Super blog. Thanks a lot for your blog.

When i run my flex application, the call to the webservice happens successfully.
But i get a pop up to enter user id and password. I want to default the user id and password programatically.
I want to avoid that pop.

Please help in getting this one.
Thanks in advance.

By: Ankur Gautam

Ankur Gautam — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:06:46 +0000

Guys solution given is cool , but only one concern where do we put login credentials (username and password) for the web service call

By: Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:43:41 +0000

found the problem.

is was SAP !

it was a language problem.

By: Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:28:48 +0000

Have you ever tried to get multiple tables / structures in one call ?

The flex SOAP part makes rubish of it !

With one table/structure it comes into flex allright, but when you want to get multiple tables/structures in one call (like reference tables) most of the data gets corrupted.

This really is a big problem.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:36:23 +0000

@parag: Yes there are two ways to call webservices in Flex. With MXML tags and this way the more “actionscript” way. I prefer this way as it is more programmer focused.

I have added the imports to each section, although just going to the object that is unknown, moving your cursor to the end of it and holding down the control key while pressing space will add the import for you.

Please go read up on SAPlink here http://www.saplink.org.

@shaira:
No, I can’t and won’t guide you, Flex consumes web services it doesn’t care at all about how those services are exposed. I have included the ABAP stuff here just to make it easy for everyone to get started. xMII is a cross app and therefore probably already has services exposed. Front-ending it with Flex should be just like calling the ABAP WebServices shown here.

By: shaira

shaira — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:15:38 +0000

Hey can u jus guide me as to how i can integrate SAP xMII with Adobe Flex for designing UIs.

Cheers,
Shaira

By: Parag Bhise

Parag Bhise — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:01:26 +0000

Hi Dan,
Great job Done …I am trying out this .I know basic of flex and I started with that recently .I am ABAPer actully . Now when I was trying out calling SAP web Service in Flex I was bit confused .
1. Are there two ways two call web service
Way1 .

Thats using mx:web service tag

way 2. which u have given ..Taking Web serive object and all ..If I am not wrong we will do it in CDATA ….If so Do we need to import some packages …Because in my case in Step 1 only its showing error .
If we need to import some package ,if yes which are those .

You have given SAPLink and some link to FunctionGroup ..But what it does ..I am not able to correlate what should done on ABAP side …
Can we come with something involving things should be done on both side .

By: Durairaj Athavan Raja

Durairaj Athavan Raja — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:12:17 +0000

Dan,

Just found out the cause. during webservice creation , if you choose the check box for name mapping then you dont get the parameter name same as the abap field name. (in this option DATE_RANGE will be DateRange in wsdl)

if you uncheck the check box for name mapping then you get the same name as ABAP field name (in this option DATE_RANGE is referred as DATE_RANGE in wsdl as well)

Regards
Raja

By: dan

dan — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:45:59 +0000

Raja –
I tested all this code on a Discovery system I have access to. I guess the ABAP stack alters naming conventions depending on the version. I will update the blog entry to show the WSDL and where to look for the variable names instead. I assumed ( incorrectly ) that the ABAP stack would be consistent about it’s naming. Thanks for the correction.