Naming conventions for developpment

Naming conventions for developpment

Check the following article : Conventions d’appellation pour les objets de développement | SAP Help Portal. To sum up with main usage :

ABAP Dictionary (tables)

  • A_ : prefix for persistent tables
  • D_ : prefix for draft tables

CDS artifacts

This concerns table name managed in Eclipse (and not table SQL view name to check in SE11).

  • R_ : prefix for base entities (root)
  • I_ : prefix for interface views
  • C_ : prefix for consumption/projection views
  • E_ : prefix for extension views

Use suffix _TP to indicate that a CDS view is relevant for transactional processing.

Behavior Pool

Use the prefix BP_ for an ABAP class that implements the behavior of a business object.

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