Get Source database type in variable

Question

Hi All,
I want to get source database type value in variable. Means if my source db is ORACLE then I should get 'ORACLE' value and if it is SQL SERVER then 'sql servere' something like this. Let me explain you in more details. My target databse is fixed and that is ORACLE. But my source can be different. It may be ORACLE, SQL SERVER or DB2. So I want to get source database type in my variable and based on that I want to go to different path in master package..
Thanks
-Pallav

Answer 1

Hello,
My Bad You had mentioned it earlier i should have read your initial post carefully !
But TYPE ANY doesn't define an internal table, generic type for a table should be ANY TABLE.
Anyway check this code snippet:
DATA: go_tab_descr TYPE REF TO cl_abap_tabledescr,
      go_struc_descr TYPE REF TO cl_abap_structdescr,
      wa_comp TYPE abap_compdescr.
FIELD-SYMBOLS:
<wa> TYPE ANY, "FS to store Work Area value
<val> TYPE ANY.  "FS to store field value
go_tab_descr ?= cl_abap_tabledescr=>describe_by_data( <itab> ).
CHECK sy-subrc = 0.
"Get the structure of your internal table
go_struc_descr ?= go_tab_descr->get_table_line_type( ).
LOOP AT <itab> ASSIGNING <wa>.
  LOOP AT go_struc_descr->components INTO wa_comp.
*   To access the components of the structure dynamically
    ASSIGN COMPONENT wa_comp-name OF STRUCTURE <wa> TO <val>.
  ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.
You can check this thread Re: Create Dynamic Structure at Runtime via ALV-Methods! for further details.
Hope this is useful.
BR,
Suhas
Edited by: Suhas Saha on Nov 30, 2010 4:49 PM