Featuretoggle

A simple, lightweight feature toggle framework for ABAP

What is it?

With this framework you can toggle features in ABAP-Code at runtime. This enables you to continuously deliver (potentially unfinished) Features in a deactivated state into the production system. This repository includes the ABAP backend and a UI5 GUI to manage toggle states.

Requirements

• SAP 7.4
• abapGit
• Eclipse + UI5/ADT Tools

How to run it?

1. Create a new ABAP class which inherits the class z_sy_feature (see examples/z_xx_feature.abap).
2. Define new feature via class attribute
3. Toggle feature via the transaktion z_sy_feature (opens UI5 frontend)
4. Check if feature is enabled by checking if z_sy_feature=>feature_xx = abap_true

⚠️ Features should never be enabled in production system!

Examples

see /examples

ToDo

• Change repository structure for easy cloning
• Import UI5-GUI via abapGit

Installation

Install ABAP Backend

1. Checkout/clone subfolder /src/abap/ via abapGit
2. Check transaction SICF if node /default_host/sap/bc/sy_feature was created
3. Activate node /default_host/sap/bc/sy_feature
4. Check if feature is enabled by checking if z_sy_feature=>feature_xx = abap_true

Installation UI5 Frontend

1. Checkout/clone subfolder /src/ui5/
2. Import project into Eclipse
   • choose File->Import->Existing Projects into Workspace
   • choose cloned project folder
   • import project
3. Link projekt to a new BSP-Container in your SAP-System
   • right click the newly created project and choose Team->Share Project
   • choose SAPUI5 ABAP Repository
   • choose the connection to your SAP-System
   • choose "Create a new BSP Application" and fill out the required fields (name must be z_sy_feature)
4. Deploy UI5 App to your SAP-System
   • right click the project and choose Team->Submit
   • select all objects
   • click finish