ABAP_to_the_Future

Top-Down Development 15.2
Creating a DDL in Eclipse
The first step in coding a CDS view is to create a new DDL in your lovely ABAP in
Eclipse development environment (you cann ot create this in SE80). You do this
by selecting the package in which you want to create the view and following the
menu path New 폷 Other ABAP Repository Object 폷 Dictionary 폷 DDL Source
(see Figure 15.2).
Figure 15.2 Creating a DDL Source: Part 1
After selecting the DDL source option and clicking Next, the screen shown in Figure
15.3 appears.
Enter a name, such as ZCDS_MONSTERS, and a description, and click Next. If this is
not a local object, then you’ll be asked for a transport request. After you choose
one, click Finish. For a local object, just click Finish. A blank screen appears with
the CDS view name at the top.
Why the Blank Screen?
As has been stressed often before, in Eclipse there is no concept of form-based programming
like you see with transactions su ch as SE37 and SE24, in which you have to
put parameters and method names in certain boxes. In Eclipse, everything is based on
source code, and naturally CDS views are no exception. You have to code everything
yourself, and that’s a Good Thing.
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