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asXML - Named Reference Variables
A named reference variable is represented as the only attribute of the associated subelement of values, with the subelement not having any further content.
An attribute for a reference variable has the name href and the content "#key", where key is the unique key of an object in the element heap. An element of an initial reference does not have an attribute href and has no other content. The key key of the ABAP runtime environment is set in serializations; in deserializations, any key can be used.
Note the following special cases when serializing named reference variables:
- Data reference variables that point to data objects whose data type only has one technical name
raise the exception CX_REFERENCE_NOT_SERIALIZABLE (handled using CX_XSLT_SERIALIZATION_ERROR). This
can be avoided by specifying transformation option
technical_types.
- Data reference variables that point to data objects that were not created using CREATE
DATA (stack references) are handled like initial reference variables in serializations. This
can be overridden by specifying the transformation option
data_refs.
In deserializations to a reference variable, the reference variable must be the same as or more general than the dynamic type of the object that is stored in the XML document. The associated ABAP data objects or instances of a class are created in deserializations.
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Note
Data types without names (or with purely technical names) are bound data types or data types constructed using RTTS.