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April 21, 2006

RadRails, Rails, Ruby, and SAP

I just published this blog on SDN about Ruby on Rails in the RadRails Eclipse based IDE, with a view to developing integrated applications with SAP.

Posted by PiersHarding at 3:34 PM

General round up of SAP RFC releases

Things have been hotting up lately with my three RFC connectors for SAP using Perl, Python and Ruby.

In brief:

Perl and SAP::Rfc 1.42

• Support for SSO2 login has been added

The new version can be found on CPAN

Ruby and SAP::Rfc 0.16

• Support for SSO2 login has been added
• Caching of interface, and structure discovery - whenever a call to SAP::Rfc#discover is made, a series of RFC calls are performed to look up what the definition of the interface is (same applies for SAP::Rfc#structure). This can be a performance hit for a complex RFC interface, or situations where an RFC enabled script is fired frequently. invoke SAP::Rfc.useCache = true to activate caching - see documentation for further details.
• Inorder to tidy up accessors for parameters, and structure components, some changes have been made. The new syntax for setting parameter values is iface.PARM_NAME = value instead of iface.PARM_NAME.value = new_value. The same applies to structure components where: str.FIELD_NAME = new_value as opposed to str.FIELD_NAME.value = new_value.

The new version can be found at: saprfc or via RAA

Python and saprfc 0.08

• Support for SSO2 login has been added
• Improved connection parameter handling

saprfc for Python is on PyPi ("the Cheese Shop").

Posted by PiersHarding at 12:23 PM

April 12, 2006

SAP::Rfc 0.15 for Ruby

SAP::Rfc for Ruby version 0.15 has a large number of changes. These include:

• Caching of interface, and structure discovery - whenever a call to SAP::Rfc#discover is made, a series of RFC calls are performed to look up what the definition of the interface is (same applies for SAP::Rfc#structure). This can be a performance hit for a complex RFC interface, or situations where an RFC enabled script is fired frequently. invoke SAP::Rfc.useCache = true to activate caching - see documentation for further details.
• Inorder to tidy up accessors for parameters, and structure components, some changes have been made. The new syntax for setting parameter values is iface.PARM_NAME = value instead of iface.PARM_NAME.value = new_value. The same applies to structure components where: str.FIELD_NAME = new_value as opposed to str.FIELD_NAME.value = new_value.

The new version can be found at: saprfc-0.15.tar.gz

Posted by PiersHarding at 8:25 AM