ABAP-Object-Visualizer
A debugger script that writes an object hierarchy to the clipboard at a breakpoint as a Graphviz description, for pasting into a renderer such as webgraphviz.com.
Runs as a script in the new debugger: at a breakpoint you open the Script tab, load ZRSTPDA_OBJECT_VISUALIZER from the database, execute it directly and name the object variable. What comes out is a Graphviz description on the clipboard, and the picture is made elsewhere: the README's last step is to paste it into webgraphviz.com and press Generate Graph, and it notes Graphviz can also be installed locally. Installation is through abapGitabapGitA Git client written in ABAP that runs inside the system, so objects are cloned, pulled and pushed without leaving it; with no package manager in ABAP, a cloned repository is how code is distributed.community org, abap.
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Who is behind it
In the atlas: maintains 13, contributes to 92, wrote 1@larshpmaintainerMarcello UrbaniContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 14, contributes to 21@marcellourbaniJacques NomssiContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 4@nomssi2 contributors
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What it declares
Every artifact
- Type
- App
- Origin
- Independently maintained
As an app
- Where it runs
- Inside the system it serves
- Distributed through
- abapGit
Connections
Seeing what running code did between input and result
Git client written in ABAP that runs inside the system
ABAP debugger extension drawing objects as a Graphviz graph
Download
README
quoted from larshp/ABAP-Object-Visualizer under MIT, readABAP-Object-Visualizer
Visualize complex object hierarchies in ABAP via graphviz
Installation
Install via abapGit
Use
- Set breakpoint in source code
- In the new debugger go to "Script" tab
- Load script ZRSTPDA_OBJECT_VISUALIZER from database
- Choose option "Execute Directly"
- Click "Start Script"
- Enter object variable name
- Paste clipboard to http://www.webgraphviz.com/ and click "Generate Graph!"
Graphviz can also be installed locally: http://portableapps.com/node/38245
Example from https://github.com/larshp/FORMfactor
Example from http://zevolving.com/2012/01/iterator-design-pattern-to-access-linked-list/
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