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CONTEXTS
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Obsolete Syntax
CONTEXTS con.
Effect
This statement can be specified in the global declaration section of a program or in the local declaration section of a
procedure. It creates a structured data type, local to the program, which can be used to create an instance of the
context con. For con, you can specify the name of a context defined in the current
AS ABAP. The name of the
data type created is made up of the prefix context_ and the name con of the specified context.
If you use the data type context_con, created using CONTEXTS,
after the TYPE addition to
the DATA statement, this creates
an instance of the context con to which the declared data object points.
The data object cannot be declared as a component of a structure. The content of the created data object
is interpreted as a reference. After value assignment to another data object of the same data type, this data object points to the same context instance.
In addition to the data type context_con, another structured data type
context_t_con is created. For each field of the context, this data type contains an identically-named component with its relevant data type.