SAP OO OBS ASSIGN TYPE 1 documentation, setup help and example usage

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No obsolete castings with ASSIGN

In ABAP Objects you are not allowed to use the additions TYPE and
DECIMALS for assigning data objects to field symbols using
ASSIGN .

Error message in ABAP Objects if the following syntax is used:

ASSIGN f TO fs TYPE ... [DECIMALS ...].

Correct syntax:

ASSIGN f TO fs CASTING TYPE|LIKE ...

Reason:

The TYPE and DECIMALS additions have been replaced by the addition CASTING [TYPE|LIKE] .
Unlike the TYPE addition, CASTING supports any data type.