Event Processing in an SAP S/4HANA on-premise system

An Event Consumption Model is a set of ABAP artifacts which allows you to receive events from external applications and to consume them within your business application. You can have a wide range of event producers. So, you need to know how the emitted event exactly looks like. To this aim, you need a file which contains the metadata of this event like how the payload looks like, what kind of types are there and so on. This is all specified in the event specification file, in this case, AsyncAPI specification, which is supported by SAP and can be downloaded from SAP API Business Hub in JSON format. For this aim, you need to download an event specification for the event business partner from the API hub.

1. Login to SAP Business Hub and choose SAP S/4HANA.

   

2. Under SAP S/4HANA choose Events tab and search for business partner.

   

3. Click Event Specification and download the JSON file.

   

Here you will create an Event Consumption Model with the .json file that you downloaded in last step.

1. Open ADT and open your S/4HANA system.

2. Create a new ABAP Package if you have not one. Please be sure if your package name is with Z like

   • Name: ZEVENT_CONSUMPTION_####
   • Description: event consumption
   

3. Right-click your package and choose New > Other ABAP Repository Object > Business Services > Event Consumption Model and click Next to launch the creation wizard.

   
   

4. Fill the fields and upload the .json file you saved before into the new event consumption ADT wizard. This will then automatically generate all that you need in this event consumption model, like the event handler custom code, authorization defaults values and inbound service.

   • Name: will be created with the Prefix and Identifier
   • Description: event consumption model
   • Namespace/ Prefix/ Identifier : Zand EVENT####
   • Event specification File: .json file

   click Next.

   

5. Select all the event types that you would like to consume in your business application and click Next.

   

6. Click Next by Define Consumer Artifacts

   

7. In ABAP Artifact Generation List click Next.

   

8. Select a Transport Request and click Finish.

   

9. In created event consumption model you can see the selected Event Types that are assigned because of your .json file.

   

10. Save and activate your event consumption model.

In this step, you can create a DB table and save the business partner IDs in this DB table. With this you can consume the event which is created in a S/4 system. Creating a DB table in this tutorial is just to help you to save and check your created IDs.

1. Right-click your package and choose New > Other ABAP Repository Object > Database Table and click Next

   
   

2. Enter the following name and description:

   • Name:ZTABLE_####
   • Description: Database table
   

   click Next, select a Transport Request and click Finish .

3. Define the table with this code and replace all #### with your number:

   ZTABLE_####

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     @EndUserText.label : 'Database table'
     @AbapCatalog.enhancement.category : #NOT_EXTENSIBLE
     @AbapCatalog.tableCategory : #TRANSPARENT
     @AbapCatalog.deliveryClass : #A
     @AbapCatalog.dataMaintenance : #RESTRICTED
     define table ztable_#### {
       key client     : abap.clnt not null;
       key recorddate : abap.dats not null;
       key recordtime : abap.tims not null;
       payload        : abap.char(1000);
   
     }
   

4. Save and activate the table.

In the consumer extension class, the event processing logic can be implemented. In the generated class, you can find for each event type of the Event Consumption Model a respective handle event method. In each method, the corresponding event type and the typed business data for this event can be found. The latter is commented out so that you can implement your own logic.

1. Navigate to Business Service > Event Consumption models > ZEVENT#### > Classes > ZCL_EVENT#### which is generated (or you can navigate to the Source Code Library > ZCL_EVENT####). Here you can see the create Method.

   
   

2. Remove comment from these lines:

     DATA ls_business_data TYPE STRUCTURE FOR HIERARCHY Z_BusinessPartner_Created_v1.      
     ls_business_data = io_event->get_business_data( ).
   

3. You need to copy the code below and replace it in your method. Replace all #### with your number:

   ZCL_EVENT####

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     DATA ls_business_data TYPE STRUCTURE FOR HIERARCHY Z_BusinessPartner_Created_v1.
   
     DATA wa TYPE  ztable_####.
     ls_business_data = io_event->get_business_data( ).
   
     wa-payload = ls_business_data-BusinessPartner.
   
     DATA(sydatum) = cl_abap_context_info=>get_system_date(  ).
     DATA(sytime) = cl_abap_context_info=>get_system_time(  ).
   
     wa-recorddate = sydatum.
     wa-recordtime = sytime.
   
     DELETE FROM  ztable_####
     WHERE recorddate < @sydatum.
   
     INSERT ztable_#### FROM @wa.
   
   

4. Your code will look like the following:

   

   You can raise an exception whenever there is an issue. This will imply that the event processing has failed and therefore set the event status to failed. To see the exception, open Window > Show View > Other search for Feed Reader. Here you can see a message if an issue is raised.
   

   

In order to successfully exchange events between SAP Event Mesh and an SAP S/4HANA on-premise system, a corresponding connection is required. This connection is maintained by the Enterprise Event Enablement framework during channel creation. To consume events, the inbound bindings and subscriptions of the channel must be configured as well.

A channel represents a single connection to a service instance of the SAP Event Mesh. As a prerequisite, you need to prepare an Event Mesh instance in your SAP Business Technology Platform account and download the service key of this instance.

1. Open your On-Premise system in SAP Logon and run the transaction /n/IWXBE/CONFIG.

   

2. Press via Service Key > Default to create a new channel.

   

3. Enter the following name and description and replace all #### with your number, enter the service key of your Event Mesh instance into the corresponding field and press save icon.

   • Name:ZEVENT_CHANNEL_####
   • Description: New Channel ####
   

4. Your channel is created. Choose your channel and press Activate.

   

After creating a channel, you can decide which events should be listed on this channel. This explicit step of maintaining an outbound/inbound binding is necessary to publish/consume events from/in an S/4HANA system.

1. In the channel configuration UI click on Inbound Bindings to start configuring the event topics for the event consumption. Alternatively, you can run /n/IWXBE/INBOUND_CFG.

   

2. Choose your active channel and click on create new topic binding icon.

   

3. Choose the search help to find the corresponding topic you wish to create an inbound binding for. in this case, choose sap/s4/beh/businesspartner/v1/BusinessPartner/Created/v1 and switch to the next page.

   
   
   

4. Choose your consumer, ZEVENT#### and click Create Destination.

   

5. Enter your user and click save icon. Please keep in mind that the specified user here is the user that runs the consumer code in the event consumption model. So, one should make sure the specified user has all the necessary authorizations.

   

6. In Create Inbound Binding screen you can see that a destination is created, now click save icon as well.

   

1. You need to create a queue for your Event Mesh instance. How to get access to the SAP Event Mesh and creating a queue is already explained in this blog post in details.. For more information about how to create a queue see also this link

2. The second step of the event consumption configuration is the creation of queue subscriptions for the channel. Back to your On-Premise system. In the channel configuration UI click Subscriptions to start configuring the queue subscriptions for the event consumption. Alternatively, you can run /n/IWXBE/SUBSCRIPTION.

   

3. In the Create Channel Subscription choose your active channel, click create new subscription icon and enter the address of the queue you already created for your Event Mesh instance and click Save.

   
   

Now you can consume an event using the event consumption model embedded in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse (ADT).

To test your event consumption scenario, a business partner must be created in the event producer system (which can be any cloud or OP system). Based on the logic you defined in the handler event method, as soon as a new business partner is created, the event will be sent to the Event Mesh and you will see the ID of the created business partner in the table.

If you want to send the event from an On-Premise system to the Event Mesh, you need to have an active channel and configure the outbound topic bindings for this channel.

1. Open your second On-Premise system in SAP Logon and create and activate a channel like in step 6. In this step you can use a name like ZEVENT_TEST_####

2. To configure your channel run /n/IWXBE/OUTBOUND_CFG or click Outbound Bindings.

   

3. In the configuration UI select your channel and click Create new topic binding icon and Choose the search help to find the corresponding topic you wish to create an inbound binding for. in this case, choose sap/s4/beh/businesspartner/v1/BusinessPartner/Created/v1 and click save icon.

   

4. Check your topic is listed and run the transaction BP to create a new business partner.

   

5. In Business Partner UI click Person and enter a name and last name and click Save.

   

6. A new business partner will be created and you can see the ID.

   

7. Now open your first On-Premise system in ADT and open your database table ZTABLE_#### and run the table with F8. You can find your created business ID in this table.