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Methods

Methods are declared using the statements

• METHODS for instance methods

• CLASS-METHODS for static methods

that are only possible in the declaration part of classes and interfaces.

Methods determine the behavior of a class. Instance methods are declared by the statement METHODS. Static methods are declared by the statement CLASS-METHODS. The declaration defines the interface of a method. For special tasks there are different types of methods:

• General methods

• Functional methods

• Constructors

• Event Handlers

Each of these methods can be declared as an instance method or as a static method. Also available, are the

• test methods

of ABAP Unit, which can only be declared as instance methods.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

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METHODS

CLASS-METHODS