Socket Programming In ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Is there any method of TCP socket programming in ABAP? For example is there any function module for creating a socket for a IP address and port number. After that, is it possible to send binary/text data to a connected IP/port destination. I need such a solution because I need to send raw data (xml data) to bank client system on our network which has a static IP address and listens incoming data through a fixed port number specified in its documentation.

As a result, I decided to code the program that will send data to the client in ABAP as a function module or subroutine pool, so is there any way to create a socket in ABAP and connect to specific IP/port destination? I searched for possible function modules in SE37 and possible classes in SE24 but unfortunately I could not find one.Could you please help to give some examples?

Thanks in advance,

Villy

[former_member215781]

Refer the following link

http://www.pdfee.com/xml-data-exchange-using-abap.html

[mvoros]

Hi,

I doubt that there is a low level API for sockets in ABAP. There is API for HTTP but probably that won't help you. As a workaround you can use external OS commands (transactions SM69 and SM49). For example on Unix you can use netcat to transfer file. Your FM needs to dump data into folder and then call netcat to transfer file.

Cheers

[Former Member]

use http_post or if_http_client to resolve it.