Polymorphic classes in workflow?

[Mike Pokraka]

Ah yes I remember Alon's "whinge". didn't come to mind because his purpose
was a bit different although it was the same problem.



On Tue, June 26, 2007 5:11 pm, Gavin Mooney wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> Alon was having a moan about this back in November (thread "Specifying
> Interface as Importing parameter") and as far as I know this is still
> not possible in 700.
>
> Actually it looks like Alon asked Jocelyn about it on 21/6 in the
> thread "Presentation on Classy Workflows / BOR vs ABAP OO" and we're
> still waiting for Jocelyn's reply.
>
> Jocelyn? Any words of wisdom?
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
> 2007/6/26, Mike Pokraka <asap at workflowconnections.com>:
>> Hi Workflowers,
>>
>> A very technical question: Has anyone tried to use some sort of
>> polymorphism with ABAP classes in workflow?
>>
>> I am working on 620 at the moment and the trouble is that the WF builder
>> doesn't let you specify an interface as a class container element type.
>> I
>> have even tried to get it to work via inheritance (i.e. binding a
>> subtype
>> to it's supertype and vice versa) and having spent most of a day on it
>> have had no success whatsoever. It seems that the class you define is
>> the
>> class you're stuck with thoughout the WF.
>>
>> This is rather annoying and negates one of the more useful benefits of
>> using classes. Even though I am sitting on a 620 system, I would also be
>> interested in any experience on NW04/s because it would be handy to know
>> how things work and which direction things will go as we also have
>> upgrade
>> plans around the corner.
>>
>> Any input appreciated.
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>>
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