SAP CL ABAP WEAK REFERENCE documentation, setup help and example usage

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Weak References
An object in the system class
CL_ABAP_WEAK_REFERENCE represents a weak reference to an object in a class. Unlike regular object references
, a weak reference is ignored during execution of the garbage collector . This means that a weak reference does not prevent the referenced object from being deleted when the garbage collector is executed.
A weak reference to an existing object is created by passing an object reference to the instance constructor of CL_ABAP_WEAK_REFERENCE . You can then use the functional method
GET to retrieve the reference afterwards. If the object was deleted in the meantime, the return value is initial.

Note
A different type of reference retains objects until the available memory becomes limited. The class CL_ABAP_SOFT_REFERENCE is available for these soft references , but this class is currently still implemented in the same way as class
CL_ABAP_WEAK_REFERENCE .

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