Where on Earth is Piers?: General round up of SAP RFC releases

April 21, 2006

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

The new version can be found on CPAN

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

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

Posted by PiersHarding at April 21, 2006 12:23 PM