ARTICLE
ST - tt:variable , Variables
Syntax
<(><<)>tt:variable name="..." [ref-type="..."]
[[s-val="..."][d-val="..."]]|[val="..."] /
Effect
With the tt:variable statement, you can declare one or multiple
variables in an ST program outside of a template. You use the
name attribute to declare a symbolic name, which can be used to
access the variable. This name can have a maximum of 30 characters.
The symbolic name is not case-sensitive and must be unique. The
namespace also includes the data roots declared with
tt:root and the parameters declared with
tt:parameter .
You can directly access the variables in the context of the
main template . The variables of the main
template are not known in subtemplates .
Variables consist of data from the ST program, which in contrast
to the data roots, are not bound to ABAP data objects.
You can use ref-type to define the variable as a reference
variable. The value of ref-type determines the static type of the
reference variable. All global ABAP classes and interfaces for an object
reference variable are possible, as are data types for a data reference
variable. The names of classes and interfaces are declared directly and
without namespaces. The names of data types must be declared using an
XML namespace that determines the context of the data type, as
with tt:type . Class reference variables
and interface reference variables are intended primarily for creating
objects and calling instance methods; data reference variables, however,
are used for binding appropriately typed interface parameters when ABAP
methods are called.
Use the additions s-val and d-val or val to assign
a start value to any of the variables; specify the values as
ABAP values . s-val only works
for serialization, d-val only works for deserialization, and
val works for serialization and deserialization.
Within a template, you use the tt:assign
statement to assign a value to a variable. You access the variables
using the var attribute of the various
ST statements .
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