FILE-BASED TRANSPORT OF TABLE CONTENT

• US 20160266895A1
• Filed: 03/12/2015
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Bestfleisch, Urlich, Klein, Udo, Block, Meinolf, Hutzel, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,916,154 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

A system includes reception of a configuration set definition file defining the structure of one or more customizing tables of a software application, reception of a configuration data file including data for the one or more customizing tables, and, during activation of the software application in a run-time system, generation of the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file, generation of a service to access the configuration data file, and population of the one or more customizing tables with data of the configuration data file.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory storing processor-executable process steps; and

a processor to execute the processor-executable process steps to cause the system to;

receive a configuration set definition file defining the structure of one or more customizing tables of a software application;

receive a configuration data file including data for the one or more customizing tables; and

during activation of the software application in a run-time system;

generate the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file, generate a service to access the configuration data file, and populate the one or more customizing tables with data of the configuration data file.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further to execute the processor-executable process steps to cause the system to:

receive a request to read data from the configuration data file from a user interface application;

in response to the request, execute the service to deserialize the data into a temporary table; and

transmit the data of the temporary table to the user interface application.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further to execute the processor-executable process steps to cause the system to:

receive a second request to update the transmitted data;

in response to the second request, execute the service to serialize the updated data into the configuration data file.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein the processor is further to execute the processor-executable process steps to cause the system to:

populate the one or more customizing tables with the updated data of the configuration data file.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein generation of the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file comprises:

identification of a first set of non-translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

identification of a second set of translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

generation of the first set of non-translatable customizing tables; and

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generation of a first table storing a semantic key for the table text and generation of a second table storing the table text.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein generation of the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file further comprises:

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generation of a view joining the first table and the second table.

7. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a configuration set definition file defining the structure of one or more customizing tables of a software application;

receiving a configuration data file including data for the one or more customizing tables; and

during activation of the software application in a run-time system;

automatically generating the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file, generating a service to access the configuration data file, and populating the one or more customizing tables with data of the configuration data file.

8. A method according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a request to read data from the configuration data file from a user interface application;

in response to the request, executing the service to deserialize the data into a temporary table; and

transmitting the data of the temporary table to the user interface application.

9. A method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a second request to update the transmitted data;

in response to the second request, executing the service to serialize the updated data into the configuration data file.

10. A method according to claim 9, further comprising:

populating the one or more customizing tables with the updated data of the configuration data file.

11. A method according to claim 7, wherein generating the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file comprises:

identifying a first set of non-translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

identifying a second set of translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

generating of the first set of non-translatable customizing tables; and

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generating a first table storing a semantic key for the table text and generation of a second table storing the table text.

12. A method according to claim 7, wherein generating the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file further comprises:

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generating a view joining the first table and the second table.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code, the program code executable by a computer system to cause the computer system to:

receive a configuration set definition file defining the structure of one or more customizing tables of a software application;

receive a configuration data file including data for the one or more customizing tables; and

during activation of the software application in a run-time system;

generate the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file, generate a service to access the configuration data file, and populate the one or more customizing tables with data of the configuration data file.

14. A medium according to claim 13, wherein the program code is further executable by a computer system to cause the computer system to:

receive a request to read data from the configuration data file from a user interface application;

in response to the request, execute the service to deserialize the data into a temporary table; and

transmit the data of the temporary table to the user interface application.

15. A medium according to claim 14, wherein the program code is further executable by a computer system to cause the computer system to:

receive a second request to update the transmitted data;

in response to the second request, execute the service to serialize the updated data into the configuration data file.

16. A medium according to claim 15, wherein the program code is further executable by a computer system to cause the computer system to:

populate the one or more customizing tables with the updated data of the configuration data file.

17. A medium according to claim 13, wherein generation of the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file comprises:

identification of a first set of non-translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

identification of a second set of translatable customizing tables of the configuration set definition file;

generation of the first set of non-translatable customizing tables; and

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generation of a first table storing a semantic key for the table text and generation of a second table storing the table text.

18. A medium according to claim 17, wherein generation of the one or more customizing tables based on the configuration set definition file further comprises:

for each of the second set of non-translatable customizing tables, generation of a view joining the first table and the second table.