Debugger Extension for abapGit

Enhancement for the ABAP debugger to jump to the correct trigger location for exception classes that use static methods to raise exceptions like ZCX_ABAPGIT_EXCEPTION used in abapGit.

Made by Marc Bernard Tools giving back to the SAP Community

NO WARRANTIES, MIT License

Background

The ABAP debugger has a feature to "show the trigger location" of the last raised exception. The feature works well when RAISE EXCEPTION is used directly. However, if you embed RAISE EXCEPTION in a static method of your exception class, for example in ZCX_ABAPGIT_EXCEPTION=>RAISE(...), then the debugger will jump to the location inside your static method and not to the location of the method call.

You can implement a GET_SOURCE_POSITION method in your exception class, but unfortunately, the debugger does not call it 🤷.

Usage

After installing this enhancement, the debugger will check if an exception class contains the SRC_INFO (or MS_SRC_INFO) attribute and use it to determine the trigger location of the exception.

Prerequisites

• SAP Basis 7.02 or higher

• Add SRC_INFO attribute to your exception class

  DATA src_info TYPE tpda_sys_srcinfo.

• Add GET_SOURCE_POSITION method in your exception class

• Add the following to the end of the CONSTRUCTOR method of your exception class

  METHOD constructor.
  
    "...
  
    " Save for debugger
    get_source_position(
      IMPORTING
        program_name = src_info-program
        include_name = src_info-include
        source_line  = src_info-line ).
  
  ENDMETHOD.

Installation

You can install the Debugger Extension for abapGit using abapGit either creating a new online repository for https://github.com/Marc-Bernard-Tools/Debugger-Ext-for-abapGit or downloading the repository ZIP file and creating a new offline repository.

Recommended SAP package: $ABAPGIT-EXT-DEBUGGER.

Contributions

All contributions are welcome! Read our Contribution Guidelines, fork this repo, and create a pull request.

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