Location of COMPREHENSIVE documentation on Directory API?

[brian_arthern2]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is some proper and comprehensive documentation on the Directory API. I have found one weblog which provides some clue, but I need something more.

My requirement is to be able to retrieve the ID of an existing ChangeList under which Communication Channels are assigned (e.g. after a TPZ import) and then be able to change the Communication Channel settings and activate the ChangeList.

Could anyone provide detailed steps/classes needed to do this?

thanks

Brian

[Former Member]

If you are 7.0 this is a good place to start.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/EN/46/6dca42e5c269dfe10000000a11466f/frameset.htm

if you are on 7.1 tough luck... am also stuck.. see my issue @

I think you will need the change list id as a place to start with.

GetObjectIdentifiers is the method you need to call to get the objects but you need to create a change list object in the first place(with in your main class to get the flow going) and that would mean, you need to know the change list id.

Can't find a way to read all the change lists in the system, loop through all of them, looking for a particular communication channel name or something like that... though I can see where your requirement comes from

[brian_arthern2]

Just an update to my question.

After digging through Java code, analysing the Java DB tables and experimenting, I have managed to determine how to locate open changel lists.

The easiest solution is to create a servlet or EJB that accesses a SQL DataSource and read data from the tables directly.

A query along the following lines works:

"select a.OWNERNAME, b.SHORTTEXT,a.VERSIONSETID from XI_QCHANGELIST a, XI_QVERSIONSET b where a.OBJSTATE = 1 and a.VERSIONSETID = b.VERSIONSETID";

OBJSTATE = 1 selects only the open changelists.

VersionSETID is the changlist ID

Remember the field is BINARY so you need to convert from binary to string:

ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(lastSQLStmt);

clID = binaryToString(rs, 3);

private String binaryToString(ResultSet rs, int colNo) throws Exception

{

InputStream bis = rs.getBinaryStream(colNo);

StringBuffer hexString = new StringBuffer();

byte[] b = new byte[999];

arrayLength = bis.read(b);

bis.close();

for (int i=0; i<arrayLength; i++)

hexString.append(hexArray[0xFF & b<i>]);

return hexString.toString();

}

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"0D","0E","0F","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19",

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"F7","F8","F9","FA","FB","FC","FD","FE","FF"};

[Former Member]

Did u look at SAP help ??

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/46/6dca42e5c269dfe10000000a11466f/frameset.htm

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/events?rid=/library/uuid/109a3b6e-1c37-2b10-9388-c12d328b658c&overrid...

-SM