SAP NEWS-740-JSON documentation, setup help and example usage

JSON Interface in Release 7.40
From Release 7.40, ABAP supports the handling of JSON data and the transformation of ABAP data to JSON and back. For more information, see ABAP and JSON .

1 JSON-XML
2 asJSON
3 JSON and CALL TRANSFORMATION
3 JSON and escape


ABAP_MODIFICATION_1 JSON-XML

JSON-XML is a special XML format that enables JSON data to be described using an XML
representation. A new format ,
IF_SXML= CO_XT_JSON , has been added to
sXML Library , which enables JSON data to be edited using JSON-XML .


ABAP_MODIFICATION_2 asJSON

The canonical JSON representation
asJSON defines a mapping between ABAP types and JSON . This is used in serializations and deserializations using the identity transformation ID .


ABAP_MODIFICATION_3 JSON and CALL TRANSFORMATION

JSON data can be specified in various forms as an XML source in the statement CALL TRANSFORMATION and a JSON writer can be specified s target. The
identity transformation ID supports JSON by using asJSON . For more information, see Transformations for JSON .


ABAP_MODIFICATION_3 JSON and escape

The escape symbol function escape supports the new format E_JSON_STRING for replacing special characters in JSON .