ABAP_to_the_Future

Enhancing Custom Reports with ABAP2XLSX 11.2
an Excel object so that you can make some further changes and then download
the spreadsheet or email it out.
The good news—the wonderful news—i s that there is a class called ZCL_EXCEL_
CONVERTER that transforms a report object into an Excel object. Listing 11.5 first
creates an SALV object by passing in a table of monster data to the CL_SALV_TABLE
factory method. Once you have the SALV object, you create an instance of the CON-
VERTER class, pass in the ALV object (and the data ta ble again), and out pops an
Excel object.
DATA: lo_converter TYPE REF TO zcl_excel_converter,
lo_excel TYPE REF TO zcl_excel,
lo_exception TYPE REF TO zcx_excel,
lo_salv TYPE REF TO cl_salv_table.
cl_salv_table=>factory(
IMPORTING
r_salv_table = lo_salv
CHANGING
t_table = gt_monsters[] ).
* Add sort criteria and what have you....
CREATE OBJECT lo_converter.
TRY.
lo_converter->convert(
EXPORTING
io_alv = lo_salv
it_table = gt_monsters[]
i_row_int = 5
i_column_int = 6
i_table = abap_true
i_style_table = zcl_excel_table=>builtinstyle_medium2
CHANGING
co_excel = lo_excel ).
CATCH zcx_excel INTO lo_exception.
"Raise Fatal Exception
ENDTRY.
Listing 11.5 Transforming a Report Object into an Excel Object
In Listing 11.5, you can see an SALV object being created and then transformed
into an Excel object. Interestingly, you could have created and prepared a CL_GUI_
ALV_GRID object instead and passed that in; the IO_ALV parameter is typed as TYPE
REF TO OBJECT, so you can pass any object in, and within the method the dynamic
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