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Outbound processing for the Advanced event processing interface

During outbound processing, business object data is converted into an ABAP handler function, which is called on the SAP server. When the data is returned by the ABAP handler function, the data is converted to a business object, and the business object is returned as a response.

The following list describes the sequence of processing actions that result from an outbound request using the Advanced event processing interface.

  1. The adapter receives the Advanced event processing business object, which contains business data along with the metadata.

  2. The Advanced event processing interface of the adapter uses the metadata of the business object to obtain the type of IDoc specified and to reformat the business object data into the structure of that IDoc.

  3. After it reformats the data, the adapter passes the business object data to an object-specific ABAP handler (based on the operation), which handles the integration with an SAP native API.

  4. After the object-specific ABAP handler finishes processing the business object data, it returns the response data in IDoc format to the adapter, which converts it to the business object.

  5. The adapter returns the results to the caller.

The Advanced event processing interface