Upload an attachment using object services

Object services are accessed from the drop down control in the top left of many SAP transactions such as XD02 Maintain Customer. One feature is the ability to attach documents uploaded from your PC.

It is surprisingly difficult to get under the covers of the object classes driving object services. I am developing an application that collects signatures scrawled on a tablet PC using a Flex control embedded in a web dynpro. Once collected, a signed document will be attached to the underlying SAP object and accessible through object services.

As a first step, I wanted to upload a document and attach it using a custom program. Here is the source code of my solution.


REPORT zzzzzzzz.

PARAMETERS:
p_kunnr TYPE kunnr.

DATA:
ls_object_identity TYPE borident,
lo_gos TYPE REF TO cl_gos_document_service.

ls_object_identity-objkey = p_kunnr. "e.g. '0000954410'.
ls_object_identity-objtype = 'KNA1'.

CREATE OBJECT lo_gos.

CALL METHOD lo_gos->create_attachment
EXPORTING
is_object = ls_object_identity
IMPORTING
ep_attachment = ls_object_identity-objkey.

COMMIT WORK.


In the next post, I will show how to load binary data from a table as an attached file object.