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This project provides file format definitions ofABAP repository objects.

The project is still in an early phase. We plan to modify and extend this document as our understanding improves. Since the ABAP file formats can still change in the future, we do not recommend using them in a productive environment, yet.

ABAP repository objects are stored on development systems and not as regular text files like in many other programming languages including python, C++ and others.The aim of the ABAP file formats is to provide a common and transparent definition of how to store ABAP repository objects in files.The file representation of ABAP repository objects facilitates the ongoing effort of applying and adapting existing developer tools and paradigms to ABAP.

This endeavour is on the one hand a commitment of SAP to use these file formats in the future whenever ABAP objects need to be written to files,e.g., inADT andgCTS,and on the other hand an offer to the ABAP community to adopt them also inabapGit and other tools.

The design of the ABAP file formats covers the following principles:

• The file content iscomplete and can be used for the sharing and distribution of ABAP repository objects.
• The file content ishuman-readable and the structure is as close as possible to what users know from their IDE.
• The files don't contain metadata like dates, usernames, last editor, system specific information, plus no obsolete or redundant information as well as no autogenerated content.

Details on technical specifications can be foundhere.

For each supported ABAP object type, there is a corresponding folder infile-formats. The documentation as well as the JSON schema for every type are located in the root of the folder. The file representation of the underlying interface can be found in the subfoldertype, the file representation of an exemplary object is contained in the subfolderexamples.

Feel free to raise issues and ask questions or report bugs.

Comments and suggestions for improvements are most welcome.

Do you feel responsible for an ABAP object type?We will be more than happy if you contribute your object type to this project.Just open a new pull request and create an ABAP type like it is specifiedhere.Feel free to hand over the type to us, so we can generate the JSON Schema for you.

More details are found inContributing.

We provide a separate repository with an ABAP report that generates JSON Schema based on ABAP types, seehttps://github.com/SAP/abap-file-formats-tools.

For validation and annotation of JSON data, there is a visual studio code extension availablehere.

Please see ourLICENSE for copyright and license information. Detailed information including third-party components and their licensing/copyright information is available via theREUSE tool.